By acknowledging how daft it looks to recruit women but not promote them, he was trying to diminish that impression.
If Chapo's escape suggested that the Mexican political system had been corroded by drug money, his subsequent years as a fugitive did not diminish this impression.
Meeting the 12C for the first time -- in this case, car PP9, a close-to-production, left-side-drive example -- does nothing to diminish the impression of McLaren's all-business demeanor.
The shifting of its awards ceremony in 2001 to pre-empt the Oscars has done nothing to diminish the impression that it will always be a feeble facsimile of its US counterpart.
New 20in, 20-spoke wheels diminish the impression of size, and a blacked-out B-pillar, where the front and rear windows meet, imparts a cunningly coupelike profile.
There, the ceiling, 23-feet high, has no support columns to diminish the impression of being in a single, vast room.
And the McCain campaign, in swift collaboration with the White House, did nothing to diminish this impression by specifically turning Bush's remarks in the Knesset into a campaign wedge.
Pay special attention to diminishing their impression of the depth of your understanding and to starting a discussion of the problems instead.
That Bernie Williams subsequently popped out to end the game has apparently not diminished the lasting impression of that play by O'Neill.
A13 World Briefing A4 NATIONAL A16-26 BuSlippinging as McCain, Gore and Democrats Gain A New York Times/CBS News Poll found that voters' impressions of Gov. George W. Bush had substantially diminished, while positive impressions of Senator John McCain had improved markedly.
