Sentence examples for diminished partly from inspiring English sources

All were agreed, though, that tensions had diminished, partly thanks to a heavy military and police presence in the city.

The number of new foreign fighters arriving has sharply diminished, partly because of the difficulties in getting there, but some are still showing up.

But the rate of return has diminished, partly because of insecurity but also because many of those inclined to return have already done so, the agency said.

But over the past decade, the "deficit" on investment income has diminished, partly because governments have cracked down on tax evasion and partly because interest rates have fallen.

It involves patternmaking and fit, qualities that have diminished partly, if not purely, as a result of the decline in skilled cutters and tailors in New York and Italy.

Such preservation may be all the more important given the dwindling of the Rhode Island Quaker community, which now numbers only 300 or so, its membership diminished partly by schisms resulting from growing technology and other foundations of modern life.

The region's most obvious advantage, low labour costs, is diminishing, partly because of the even greater price advantage in China and partly because of the upward drift in wages brought by the march of prosperity.

And it is, of course, but its clout is diminishing — partly because of competition from online retailers like Amazon; partly because many of the low-income people who shop at Walmart haven't seen their fortunes improve much, if at all, since the recession ended; and partly because other retailers have also been lowering their prices and attracting more people.

But the lustre of the iPhone is diminishing, partly because of a lack of imagination on Apple's part, and partly because of three other factors.

The director also points out that Spanish audience figures have diminished anyway, partly because of that VAT hike.

And also, from the student point of view, the enthusiasm for finding out which by the adolescent level has diminished for some, partly because it's been squelched, partly because sexual matters are now sort of important­nothing else counts.