Sentence examples for diminished the material from inspiring English sources

Following several years of structural adjustment programs that substantially diminished the material resources that could be shared, the emotional dimension of exchange relationships had been weakened as well.

Since "all our ideas or more feeble perceptions are copies of our impressions or more lively ones"; we are restricted to "compounding, transporting, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded us by the senses and experience" (EHU 2.5/19).

Russia's intervention in the Ukraine, Donald Trump's presidency and instability in the Middle East are just a few of the factors that have brought an end to the immediate post-Cold War belief that a new international order was emerging: one where fear and uncertainty gave way to a thick normative and institutional architecture that diminished the importance of material power.

Of course, the challenge for any journalistic collection is to prove its relevance, a challenge not diminished when the material is as recent as it is here.

The 8-foot tall, humanoid Engineers were created by applying bulky, full-body prosthetics to the actors, whose facial features were diminished by the material, and were later digitally enhanced to preserve the "godlike" physical perfection.

Additionally Cd reacts with protochlorophillide reductase, which causes photoreduction of protochlorophillide into chlorophyllide thus diminishing the raw material for chlorophyll synthesis (Stobart et al. 1985).

The rampant campiness diminished the sexual heat of the material; several scenes played more as night-club routines than as drama.

The addition of an external donor diminished the amount of highly atactic material, but the isotacticity of long-chain material was also increased.

This has diminished the brand".

As the concentration of carrier diminishes, the resistance of materials increases by two or three orders of magnitude at room temperature and increases even more sharply at 77 K. Annealing experiments were carried out after irradiation.

The system is able to release interfering genetic material diminishing the levels of a house-keeping protein and a protein directly involved in prostate cancer development.