Sentence examples for diminishing him from inspiring English sources

Yet by diminishing him, Britain's voters have almost certainly ensured they will have a more timid, less radical government.

"You never saw that," he said, explaining that he never took a shot in front of his players because even one miss risked diminishing him in their eyes.

But far from diminishing him, some see the defeat followed by triumph as enhancing Mr. Lieberman's stature, at least on the talk-show circuit.

It is a well-told, many-sided story, which attempts to give context to Lincoln without diminishing him, to place him among his peers and place him above them, too.

Democratic strategists think Bill has smiled on John Edwards's candidacy because he and Hillary want Mr. Edwards to lose to W. in 2004, thus diminishing him and clearing the way for a Hillary run in 2008.

But age diminishes him.

Successively the bolts diminish him.

Defeat did not diminish him.

She said the speculation had "diminished him and diminished me".

But it is also to diminish him".

This diminishes him as a batsman.