Sentence examples for diminished them to from inspiring English sources

It would have diminished them to fit it all into the context of these years after the catastrophe of 9/11".

We have diminished them to statistics - either good (infections down) or bad (highest teen pregnancy rate in Europe) - and we seem to have forgotten that three-quarters of girls who have underage sex subsequently admit to regretting it, not counting those less self-aware or honest.

In a strange way it diminishes them to think they didn't.

Rather than proving their worth, talking about the arts simply as a way to transfer skills or drive a social agenda diminishes them to something small-minded and replaceable and undermines the very ecology we seek to protect.

It does not diminish them to note the times they have failed.

The culprit: the 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, which banned Pell grants to currently incarcerated individuals, and immediately crippled the once thriving in-prison college programs, diminishing them to merely 12 by 2005.

Yet Walker's attempts to inflate his credentials have only diminished them, comically so.

More than any state in the West, Utah has expanded hunting opportunities for the well-to-do and has begun to diminish them for those seeking permits directly from the state.

I am opposed that fundamentally as in my view the primary goal of government should be to protect the rights of its citizens, and not work to diminish them in secret.

Forget about choreography that stretches dancers; couldn't they at least find choreography that doesn't actively work to diminish them?

To see Dr. King and his colleagues as anything less than modern founders of democracy — even as racial healers and reconcilers — is to diminish them under the spell of myth.