Sentence examples for diminution as from inspiring English sources

Behind Door No. 2 is a gradual decline and diminution as rivals like Apple, Google and Microsoft devour most of the market; to some degree, they already have.

A second after the scratch of his match the moment occurred of which each following moment was a slight diminution, as we made the long irregular descent toward Pittsburgh.

Visiting after the death of the rector's Catholic gardener, a local priest mourns that his own church, sullied by scandal and marginalised by a secular age, is suffering the same diminution as its once-stately Protestant counterpart.

Nucleoplasmic ataxin-1 is thought to comprise oligomeric species that precede IB formation; a notion supported by the expression of nucleoplasmic GFP-ataxin-1 in nuclei entirely devoid of IBs and its diminution as IBs nucleate [10].

He and colleagues showed that TM cells of patients with POAG undergo ATP diminution, as their functionality is endangered by an intrinsic mitochondrial complex I defect, causing a respiratory chain deficit in these cells [18].

They say there is no safe diminution of habitat as long as human understanding of ecology is as sketchy as it is; a fallback strategy is unthinkable.

This condition is characterized by diminution in sensibility as well as severe pain when any stimulus exceeds a certain threshold.

Intriguingly, while SIN1 WT and SIN1 T86E completely rescued Akt T450 phosphorylation, this was not the case for SIN1 T86A; however, this diminution was not as marked as that observed for Akt S473 phosphorylation.

After these reports were published, many researchers studied chloroamphetamines (CAPs) as factors of selective serotonin (5-hydroxytriptamine, 5-HT) diminution and as monoamine oxidase (MAO) inhibitors in brain nerve terminals [ 18– 20].

In addition, the addition of Ni induces a slight increase of the WS2 lamellas stacking and a diminution of their lengths, as well as an increasing sulfidability of WOx phase by about 20%.

If Burke had a forward-looking mind, and believed that human nature both required and led to development, he did not think that progress was necessarily an unqualified gain: for instance, in discussing the civilizing of American savages, he saw a diminution of their courage as well as an increase in their moral goodness.