Sentence examples for diminished part from inspiring English sources

For longer sustained loading times, the bond failure locus shifted to the epoxy/concrete interface, which diminished part of the strength increase brought on by the stress relaxation of the adhesive.

Two Buffy essayists note that Willow and Giles sing together at the start of the episode, but later Tara and Giles share a duet to express the diminished part each plays in their respective relationships.

McGrath's two-and-a-quarter hour abridgement boils the novel down to key characters and scenes, in so doing losing a lot of colour and flavour, especially from Nicholas' protector Mr Cheeryble: a pity, as Timothy Spall is good value in this diminished part.

Mr. Nunez hoped to get "maybe something, at least," he said, sounding the predominant theme here, and in many other places, too, these days: The everything you were counting on might be gone, but maybe some diminished part of it is still within reach.

The 19th century was an era of laissez-faire, but in the 20th century two world wars required strong state control of the economy, and in the social democracies that prevailed after 1945 the private sector played a diminished part, particularly in Europe.

Nevertheless, for Indonesians -- and Javanese in particular -- the existence of a spiritual world is a palpable, if diminishing, part of their culture.

The same dilemma may one day be posed at the Mail, where newspapering is already a separate, diminishing part of group activities.

While government plays an important role in higher education, especially in financing research, Mr. Starr said, "that can only be a part — and I think perhaps even a diminishing part — of what is the engine that's driving higher education".

Regulators and long-term investors fear that the movement away from exchanges will diminish part of what has made the American stock market the envy of the world: the public auction process.

In many countries, traditional banking represents a diminishing part of what modern banks do.Economists have long theorised about the relative merits of bank-based finance and market-based finance.

Yet it is an odd solution, reflecting both widespread misunderstanding of the issue and political timidity.Britain's noisy youthful drinkers, who attract most of the public ire, are in fact a diminishing part of the problem.