Sentence examples for diminution began from inspiring English sources

There, the great diminution began in February 2008, when Time Warner's chief executive, Jeff Bewkes, declined to renew the contracts of Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne, the co-chairmen and co-chief executives of his New Line unit.

"The Origin of the Work of Art" make the contentious case that this ontological diminution "begins" when concepts central to the ancient Greek understanding of being get translated into Latin without a full experience of what those concepts originally revealed (PLT 23/GA5 8).

Celebrated in her lifetime, the diminution of her achievements began – as she had feared it would – soon after her death in 1999, helped on its way by her husband, the Oxford academic John Bayley, who revealed to the world her Alzheimer's disease and thus put her sprawling later novels in a different light.

The usual story told about us or rather, about "the Indian"—is one of diminution and death, beginning in untrammeled freedom and communion with the earth and ending on reservations, which are seen as nothing more than basins of perpetual suffering.

Diminution of RPS13 begins modestly at 4 hours and is substantial by 24 hours.

The progressive diminution in the size of stone artifacts that began in the Middle Paleolithic reached its climax in the small parallel-sided blades and microliths of what has been called the Indian Mesolithic.

In more recent years, with the diminution of research facilities at Columbia, his personal efforts began to focus increasingly on teaching, although he continued research as an advisor of doctoral students.

The consequences have included a diminution of the curatorial staff from five when Deitch began to two when he left.

Staff began to drift away as Montgomery enforced job cuts, and there was a further diminution in sales at both titles.

In my own late twenties, I began to discover that I not only retained my intense dislike of losing but increasingly felt a diminution of satisfaction in winning.

Although the French Admiralty Court failed to survive the Revolution that began in 1789, the substantive law embodied in the Ordinances was very closely followed in the Code de Commerce, whose adoption in 1807 meant that the maritime law was thereafter considered simply as a branch of commercial law, with consequent diminution of the weight previously given to custom and usage.