Unlike previous high-profile cases, the existence of the elevator video has significantly diminished that kind of collusion by the media and by Rice's peers.
But it will take much more to diminish the kind of gun violence that claims the greatest number of American lives each year the kind that killed Reggina Jefferies, Luis Villot, and Antonio Perkins.
It is a system that cocoons users, diminishing the kind of exposure to opposing viewpoints necessary for a healthy democracy, says Jaron Lanier, a computer scientist and the author of "You Are Not a Gadget".
"Long term, there is peril here for Obama: if he is presenting a message that he represents a new style of governance, once you start to engage in the back and forth, you really diminish this kind of message".
Many of the locations in Canada and Switzerland have a little more of social net that diminishes that kind of crime..
But each of those figures could be greatly diminished in any kind of economic downturn in the future, he said.
Over the next couple of decades, the same question was repeated, and exactly the same response to my reply; though as time passed, I couldn't help noticing that the enthusiasm diminished into a kind of sympathetic hopefulness.
"So it can be done and I think, Peter, he won't be embarrassed, he will be angry that the club's otherwise excellent reputation is being diminished by this kind of activity and I think we'll see fairly firm action over the next few weeks from the Celtic board".
Yet while there is no judgment from the scientific jury at this point, there is evidence that at least some people find that when they use the Hearing Voices approach, their voices diminish, become kinder and sometimes disappear altogether — independent of any use of drugs.
In practice, opportunities for people with low literacy to work in effective partnerships with staff will be substantially diminished by the kinds of problems our study has identified unless communication and relationships improve.
