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In a conversation with me, Wolfowitz called the new draft "a very, very good paper," but he also appeared to diminish the scope of his anti-corruption initiative.
The culture secretary, unveiling a white paper on the future of the BBC, was responding to Labour's Maria Eagle, who said that he had tried to diminish the scope and scale of the BBC but had been over-ruled by David Cameron.
Without wishing in any way to diminish the scope of numerous different possibilities for nonviolence projects, my own immediate thoughts lead to the importance of a discussion of healing.
By gaining the support of families within the camp, their goal is to promote the well-being of children and diminish the scope for child abuse.
And if the careful wording of that claim suggests a hedge against comparisons with Frederick P. Rose Hall — the $128 million home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, ensconced within the Time Warner Center in Manhattan — it hardly diminishes the extraordinary scope and promise of SFJazz's achievement.
It diminishes the oppressed.
But in reporting that "6 in 10 dementia victims will wander at least once," you unintentionally diminish the problem's scope and severity.
Don't fast-travel too often lest you diminish the game's sense of scope.
These constraints of its scope strongly diminish the applicability of EMD to various signals.
