Sentence examples for diminished in extent from inspiring English sources

By the time of the death of Mahmud II in 1839, the Ottoman Empire was diminished in extent; it was more consolidated and powerful than it had been at its height but was increasingly subject to European pressures, with Russia supporting and Britain opposing separatist movements and the other powers oscillating between.

Our results focus on ecosystems that are (a) still widespread but altered in structure and species composition (northern hardwoods communities) or (b) greatly diminished in extent (pine barrens communities).

The region most affected in the cn/cn mutant was the hypertrophic zone of the physis which was invariably considerably diminished in extent compared with non-affected cn/+littermates.

Like their counterparts in the Indonesian trepang fishery, New Englanders were aware that their prey was diminishing in extent and responded by moving to fishing grounds further offshore.

The effect of this policy was that the overall participation in the training increased for the targeted population but diminished in almost the same extent for the age group just before the target age.

Early marriage and child labour have to a large extent diminished in communities served by CSP schools.

I argue to the contrary, suggesting that the chronic discrepancy between institutional regard for the role of educator 'teacher' and 'scholar' a constant impediment to the development of teacher education as a field of study—has diminished in recent years to such an extent that the two are coming together in unprecedented and productive ways.

The potential of fungi or fungal patterns to induce neutrophilic MDSCs was diminished in human and, albeit to a lesser extent, murine Dectin-1 deficiency.

"It's encouraging that the extent of illegal trade has diminished in recent years since international trade restrictions have come into force," said Dr. Ellen K. Pikitch, a co-author of the study and the executive director of the institute at Stony Brook.

Western blotting with antibodies to mouse milk from d1L glands showed that milk production was diminished in Ndst1f/fMMTVCre+ glands nearly to the same extent as keratin expression (Fig. 6C).

Consistent with the results from transcription assays, invasive growth is significantly diminished in Tec1-Ubc9 cells but was decreased to a less extent in Tec1K54R-Ubc9 cells (Fig. 5B).