"If that is the case, it is quite likely that the terms and conditions being negotiated as part of these one-stop service contracts may not be valid and that available funding levels to support these contracts may also be diminished," wrote Ms. Maree, who did not return a call seeking comment.
"Unfortunately, the art house audience that used to seek and find foreign titles in the U.S. has greatly diminished," wrote Marcus Hu, co-president of "The Edge of Heaven" distributor Strand Releasing, in an e-mail from Cannes.
"We often become aware in our opponents, just as we do in our patients, that their power of judgment is very noticeably influenced affectively, in the sense of being diminished," he writes.
If material information were reported more frequently, the potential rewards of insider trading might diminish, James Surowiecki writes in his column in The New Yorker.
But as the role of newspapers and television news diminishes, he wrote, "and the customization of our communications universe increases, society is in danger of fragmenting, shared communities in danger of dissolving".
"Exaggerated class distinctions have been diminishing," Orwell wrote, but "the great majority of the people can still be 'placed' in an instant by their manners, clothes and general appearance" and above all, their accents.
"Price tends to rise steadily for the number of the creatures is diminishing," he wrote, "probably not more than 300 of them left alive in the whole expanse of the Greenland seas".
In their conclusion, the authors write: "Diminished sleep quality is one of the many ways in which loneliness gets 'under the skin', and our findings underscore the importance of early intervention to reduce loneliness in young people".
After 1971, Shoup's speaking and writing diminished, and he faded from the public eye after the U.S. military withdrawal from Vietnam in 1973.
"When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish," Pound wrote in 1915.
