For the last fifteen years it has been treated, with diminishing success, via twice-daily applications of steroid cream.
Over the years, al-Qaida tried to pull off other big strikes, with diminishing success, and also dispersed geographically, morphing into al-Qaida in Iraq, al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, and so on.
Struggling with diminishing success to assert his leadership in advance of a parliamentary impeachment session, President Abdurrahman Wahid demanded legal action against the national police chief, Gen. Suroyo Bimantoro, after he refused to step aside when the president fired him.
Whereas the current Albanian government has tried, with diminishing success, to keep some distance from the KLA, Mr Berisha has organised pro-KLA rallies in Tirana, Albania's capital.What the KLA lacks in sophisticated weaponry, it makes up in local knowledge.
They achieve the latter quality with diminishing success in view of the vastly increased number of publications that daily appear throughout the world, the failure of publishers to provide legal-deposit copies, and the difficulty of ensuring adequate representation of publications issued in the developing countries.
Indeed the big-name signings have been followed by diminishing success in the Champions League from winning it in 2000 to not even making the final 16 this season.
And rather than participating in threads and promoting the best comments, our moderators are stuck policing the trolls with diminishing success.
Now we're seeing working hours rise steeply for households, as both adults now work with diminishing success to maintain the standard of living many of their parents enjoyed on a single income.
Modern history has refuted these claims, suggesting these stories were later circulated under Flavian rule as part of a propaganda campaign to diminish success under the less reputable Emperors of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, and maximize achievements under Emperor Claudius (41 54) and his son Britannicus.
Highly inbred populations have diminished reproductive success and become gene pools for hereditary disorders.
