Sentence examples for diminishing about from inspiring English sources

And he could privately be very diminishing about people who were in his own camp.

The critic Ruth Graham reignited that contretemps this summer in an essay in Slate, arguing that there is something embarrassing and diminishing about adults reading Y.A. books, the enjoyment of which has so much to do with, in her words, "escapism, instant gratification, and nostalgia".

Similar with BioHe and BioHs, SDS strongly inhibited BioHx activity, diminishing about 80% of its activity at 0.5% concentration.

There is something slightly diminished about Miliband as he walks on to the stage.

Whatever may seem to have diminished about him, it is certainly not his voice.

As in earlier studies, the recent one found that the cancer risk diminished about two years after therapy was stopped.

Our results also disclosed that the positive effect of forest harvesting on runoff decreased with forest recovery and eventually diminished about 20 yrs after intensive harvesting period.

Results show that increasing swirl has two main effects regarding the gross indicated efficiency (ηi): on one hand chamber heat rejection increases and therefore ηi diminishes about −0.5% at low load and −0.4% at high load; on the other hand combustion development is affected and thus a ηi improvement higher to 1.5% is achieved at low load and speed.

But any reservations I had about an accidental boner during class were quickly diminished about two minutes into the initial floor workout.

The ability of grouper β-defensin to inhibit growth of E. coli diminished about fifteen fold when divalent cations concentrations were increased from 0 mM to 0.2 mM.

Notably, vessel diameter also has a great influence on the systolic peak and must be substantially diminished (about 50%) to lead to hemodynamic alterations [ 4].