This is a diminishing asset".
And the US intelligence community would regard the UK as a diminishing asset, he adds.
If many people see Britishness, as historically understood, to be a diminishing asset, is that a surprise?
"They don't understand the concept of owning what seems to be a diminishing asset," he said.
We bought you time with the surge to reach a formal political settlement and you better use it fast, because it is a rapidly diminishing asset.
It was caught too in the one section where that diminishing asset the British Sense of Humour was given any real play.
He understood that American willingness (what politicians call resolve) to keep the Army fighting is a diminishing asset — unless it can be plainly, repeatedly demonstrated that progress is being made and that the enemy directly threatens the nation.
However, it is likely that reduced savings, diminished assets, and increased debt would make it harder for households to respond to adverse economic events in the future, especially for the small but important fraction of households that incur substantial costs.
Individuals were not only encouraged but given financial incentives to take over the state's job of maintaining their homes and to deplete councils' revenue by diminishing their assets, one house at a time.
Keating said growth in the superannuation asset base "could not happen if people were permitted to take funds for convenience, thereby diminishing the asset pool and its capacity to compound".
