A dignified and viable Palestine, living side by side with Israel, will not diminish the security of Israel, but fortify it.
The department's nonproliferation programs, aimed at diminishing the security threat posed by fissile materials in other countries that can be used for nuclear weapons, would be cut by roughly 20percentt, or $460 million, below the current level of $2.45 billion, the officials said.
Or: the terrorism emergency that began with 9/11 has eased, the threat has diminished, so the security bureaucracy should shrink accordingly and the pendulum should swing back in favor of civil liberties and individual privacy.
Wills concludes with an assessment of the possibilities for diminishing the national security state in the future.
Mr Claes batted back that the admission of new members "is not directed against Russia nor does it diminish the national security interests of Russia".
It's especially important for women, who typically earn less than men and often take time off from work to raise their children, thus diminishing the Social Security money they can get back later in life.
Observers have argued that national security adviser John Bolton's decision to reshuffle that agency earlier this year diminished the power of global health security experts in the Trump White House.
Do they want a new gilded age with the rich getting even richer and the rest of us poorer, with social security being diminished, the elderly returned to poverty, schools under funded, and few laws to protect our environment or our health, and a return to women dying from back alley abortions?
Another week of U.S. Treasury note auctions diminished the appeal of U.S. debt securities on Tuesday as investors ventured back into the stock market, pushing the Dow Jones industrial average up to its strongest close of the year.
"Far from being a 'national security measure' this bill will have the unintended consequence of diminishing the online safety, security and privacy of every single Australian," said Jordon Steele-John, a Greens' senator, in a tweet.
