The outcome of the referendum has precipitated political upheaval, including the announced resignation of the Prime Minister, contributing to heightened uncertainty over government economic policies and diminished scope for policy implementation at the current conjuncture.
He hoped to diminish the scope of the white pieces by the further advances 12... f4 and 13... g4.
In a conversation with me, Wolfowitz called the new draft "a very, very good paper," but he also appeared to diminish the scope of his anti-corruption initiative.
The Court stressed that the division of labor due to increased specialization did not operate to diminish the scope of the duty of maintaining a seaworthy vessel.
If so, however, under the premises of my Brother HARLAN's opinion, the appropriate response on our part would be not to hold that the privilege against self-incrimination could not be asserted, but at most to diminish the scope of the use restriction to that considered by the legislature to be consistent with the state interests asserted.
Honoring service is essential to those who would sacrifice for our nation and to question policy outcomes in no way diminishes the scope of an outstanding military career.
Without wishing in any way to diminish the scope of numerous different possibilities for nonviolence projects, my own immediate thoughts lead to the importance of a discussion of healing.
I write this with the hope that the Sanders legions can come out of this election year with the networks and organizations that can reshape the American economic and political order -- bolstering workers' power, altering corporate governance, diminishing the scope of finance.
There is, to begin with, the concern that the trade agreement might not even materialize, or be diminished in scope because of quarreling between negotiators from the United States and the hemisphere's second-largest economy, Brazil.
The good general health (healthy worker effect) of participants might also have diminished their scope for demonstrating improvements while self-reporting bias seemed to have negligible effect.
