Sentence examples for diminished roles from inspiring English sources

But they will have much smaller reporting staffs and play diminished roles.

Both men insisted that they would continue to play creative, albeit diminished, roles on "N.Y.P.D Blue".

Asked how much longer he expected to play third base, Rodriguez cited Ripken as someone who flouted the perception that aging players should automatically assume diminished roles.

One difference from last season is tight end Pete Mitchell's diminished role.

"It reflects the generally diminished role of the State Department in foreign policy," Mr. von Hagen said.

Acknowledging the Republicans' diminished role in the new political landscape, Mr. Bennett also sounded a decidedly bipartisan tone through much of his address.

Whatever the fate of that idea, Mr. Ziglar faced a diminished role with the advent of the proposal for a Homeland Security Department.

In sum, Tillerson's vision was of a vastly diminished role for America in the world, and a more militarized one.

In fact, Uber's long-term plan is one in which drivers, with their costs and complications, will have a diminished role.

But based on what they had seen in the wake of other large acquisitions in the oil industry, several wondered whether Mr. Bijur came to see that he might have a significantly diminished role at the merged company.

That CNN is undergoing a reorganization, and that TBS is virtually divesting itself of another asset, serve as stark reminders of Mr. Turner's diminished role at Time Warner as it prepares to merge with AOL.