For Republicans, it underscored the limits of their party's diminished ranks.
From the diminished ranks of a once mighty movement, the most talented opted for Westminster; no wonder the Scottish party in Holyrood – with a few striking exceptions – is so barren of ideas, of ability, of inspiration, of anything.
"He thins an already diminished rank of distinguished stalwarts – Bernard Cribbins, Clive Swift, Stanley Baxter, Tim West, Geoffrey Whitehead still among them – who like Briers himself thrived in the vintage TV of yesteryear but were to some extent homogenised by the medium's over-appetite for that style".
Its diminishing ranks and relevance may cause smiling feminists to say, Knock yourselves out, boys.
Many readers wrote to NYTimes.com to sympathize with the survivors and discuss the significance of their diminishing ranks; below is a sampling of the responses.
But Mr. McConnell's room to maneuver is shrinking with the rising calls against compromise and the diminishing ranks of Republican deal makers.
In this dataset, Dep1 is diminished in ranking in the Sds3 deletion, Sds3 is not detected in the Dep1 deletion, and both proteins have higher ranks (see Methods) in Rxt2 and Pho23 deletions (Figure 3B) suggesting that indeed Dep1 depends on Sds3 to interact with Rpd3-TAP and not on Rxt2 or Pho23.
Mr. Baron Cohen and Mr. Charles's search for ugly Americans yields a meager bounty compared to "Borat," partly because the success and notoriety of that movie diminished the ranks of potential patsies.
Third, associations between absolute income/wealth and health should be diminished substantially when "rank" effects are controlled for, suggesting that money may appear to influence health because it acts as a marker of social rank.
With Walker's hard-won 2011 law crippling their ability to bargain and diminishing their ranks, the state's public-employee unions are struggling to figure out how to increase their strength, membership and collective voice.
