Sentence examples for diminished living from inspiring English sources

By then, Americans will have endured nine years of employment weakness, which for millions will translate into permanently lost opportunities for wage growth and irreversibly diminished living standards.

If you're all fired up about Republican-inspired tales of Democrats planning to send grandma to some death chamber, you'll never get to the G.O.P.'s war against the right of ordinary workers to organize and negotiate in their own best interests — a war that has diminished living standards for working people for decades.

In practice, many people don't even apply for jobs where they know their history will come to light, in some cases leading diminished lives and depriving our industries of potentially excellent employees.

Some of us find ourselves living diminished lives on disability payouts that provide subsistence but very few frills.

Blame postmodernism or technology, but our expectations of symphonic structure have diminished; we live in an age of short attention spans and sound bites, after all, and delayed gratification is so 19th century.

That this is undoubtedly true becomes self-evident when we consider how diminished our lives would be without just one facet of human experience that is nurtured through engaging children with the arts: imagination.

Years or months of thinking about giving up smoking, while the habit persists, even if gradually diminishing, were lived moment to moment as a smoker, until a breakthrough moment of becoming a non-smoker.

How diminished our lives would be without them.

For the residents in New Verapaz, as described below, physical exposure to the lahar hazard has certainly diminished compared to living in high-risk or uninhabitable zones.

Unfortunately, the evidently lip-synced medley of hits she played (including "Womanizer" and "Toxic") served only to demonstrate how diminished a live performer she's become since her early-2000s peak.

"Many Indians think something would be diminished in our lives if Kashmir were to go," said Kanti Bajpai, a international relations professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi.