In the novel the dog is more closely identified with the father, who is hurt badly in a mining accident and returns in a severely diminished state.
Were states' rights the primary cause of the conflict, the states should have exploded into open warfare following the Supreme Court's McCulloch v. Maryland decision, which drastically diminished state powers of taxation while increasing those of the federal government.
In a telephone interview, Mr. DiNapoli said local governments were facing a "perfect storm" of financial pressures — including diminished state aid, falling property values and sluggish collections of sales tax.
The Lars Homestead is the actual building used during the filming of Star Wars and it still exists – in a considerably diminished state – in Tunisia.
All told, those cuts diminished state revenue by more than $425 million each year, the center estimates.
After the catheterization-administration procedure, inappetence and a slightly diminished state of consciousness, both of which were transient, were observed in some animals in both substudies.
Details would have to be worked out, he said, but he added that the deal was a reasonable alternative in a time of diminishing state money.
Francesco Bianchi, the government commissioner sent in to rescue Florence's Maggio Musicale Opera house, agrees that the piecemeal nature of funding, based on a range of diminishing state, regional and municipal grants and limited corporate sponsorship, had made the situation very difficult for Italian opera houses.
In general, the law across Europe is secular, and churches play a small and diminishing state role.
