Sentence examples for diminished the size from inspiring English sources

Second, the deletion of episomal SV40 origin and neomycin selection gene region of pcDNA 3.1 diminished the size of the designed vector by more than 2 kb, which would greatly increase the capability of the designed vector to clone large PCR products.

ML-7 treatment diminished the size of terminal focal adhesions relative to untreated cells (Fig. S1), suggesting a significant reduction in the tension within stress fibers, most likely due to the dephosphorylation of myosin [27].

Injection of Ad-CMV-DN-PP2Acα significantly diminished the size of both SK-Hep-1 and HepG2 xenograft tumors; however, Ad-AFpg-DN-PP2Acα only inhibited the growth of HepG2 tumor xenografts.

Meanwhile, they said, they will take steps to slowly diminish the size of the government.

And now the court has amplified doubts over the prime minister's ability to diminish the size and cost of the state without a constitutional revision.

"I think for those who want to diminish the size of the tax cut, that would be inadvisable, and for those who want to increase the size of the tax cut, that would be inadvisable," Mr. Bush told reporters.

They engineered a rescue plan with several provisions intended to ultimately diminish the size of Fannie and Freddie and set the stage for a permanent, though sharply reduced, role for the companies in the mortgage markets.

It appears that both the power of the magnates and the practices born of the ancient patronage system, combined with extensive military service, had the effect of diminishing the size of this class.

In the 14th century and later there was a return to less flamboyant ways with the tendency to imitate earlier models more closely, but the habit of enlarging some and diminishing the size of other letters never died out.

* An opposite spell seems to diminish the size of the dollar whenever an American visits Switzerland (where prices are 175% of America's level), Denmark (153%) or Australia (149%).** Interestingly, the Penn effect is not a timeless law of economics.

None of this diminishes the size of the vote that he actually got, or what appears to be its simplest meaning — freely given approval, on a secret ballot, of a man primarily known as a believer in segregation, a doctrine he would carry to the point of denying training in his state university to a single qualified Negro.