To give but one, the hottest, driest summer since 1936 scorching the Midwest have diminished projected corn and soybean crop yields s in the Untied States for a third straight year to their lowest levels in nine years.
Until Saudis spoke the same Arabic dialect and tribal and regional cultural differences diminished, a project examining the country's heritage would have been too contentious to be approved by the censors.
Watching Johanson, one wonders if Liska and Copper's interest in this kind of sophomoric male character, with an exaggerated sense of entitlement, diminishes their project — while pandering to European audiences, who may still believe that the New World is, culturally speaking, filled with rubes.
If Kansas City can get past the playoff sticking point (scoreless losses at home to Houston, the gold standard of MLS playoff grinders, in each of the last two seasons) then the project, diminished regular season performance and all, can be stamped "success".
As historian Chalmers Johnson predicts, "the United States will within a very short time face financial or even political collapse at home and a significantly diminished ability to project force abroad".
Despite this initial interest and involvement, however, the ACCHS's level of participation in this project diminished.
But HS2 Action Alliance argues that reliability will not be as good as predicted, again diminishing the projected benefits.
Though diminished by hydroelectric projects, the falls is still an impressive sight.
This means that the dam's lifetime will be significantly diminished, further reducing projected benefits.
The lagoon, which sits between Ipanema and the Tijuca forest, was once three times its current size, but it has been gradually diminished by landfill projects as Rio spread from its colonial centre to the tourist resorts along the coast.
