"By refusing to provide a receptive ear to gossip, or an active mouth to spread it, you'll diminish its effect on your life and others," said Wanda Urbanska, former host of the national PBS television series Simple Living and co-author of Moving to a Small Town: A Guidebook to Moving from Urban to Rural America.
Mr. Kuitca has too often used the baggage carousel as a symbol of frustration and alienation, diminishing its effect.
Lohse opened his outing with an endless stream of sinkers, but the monotony of his arsenal did not diminish its effect.
And his political team, including his vice presidential running mate, Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, and his campaign chairman, William M. Daley, spent the day preparing Democrats on Capitol Hill for Judge N. Sanders Sauls to rule against Mr. Gore and trying to diminish its effect in advance.
Not only does it undermine the caffeine's effect, but it tends to lead people to build a tolerance for the drug, thereby diminishing its effect down the road.
For the moment, however, Hollywood's professional Oscar campaigners — who generally do not discuss their craft publicly, for fear of diminishing its effect — are privately buzzing about Mr. Weinstein's bid to outmaneuver films that are bigger, broader and better positioned for the general audience.
To diminish its effect on the control, a thrust duration as well as a thrust direction are translated from the delta-v in the context of a constant thrust engine (the most robust type in real applications).
A soft lens has a tendency to conform to the conical shape of the cornea, thus diminishing its effect.
In all of this, the theist may argue, natural evil is defeated: the very experience that threatens to overwhelm confidence in the good becomes the indispensable foundation for attitudes of character that serve to diminish its effects and aim at wiping it out.
