Sentence examples for diminution of importance from inspiring English sources

These transcripts dramatically increased in expression after 7 days but returned toward baseline by 21 days, suggesting a critical role for these genes during induction of the adipocyte differentiation program but diminution of importance in maintenance of the mature phenotype.

McCain benefitted from his position on the Iraq surge and a diminution of the importance of his heretical stands on immigration and campaign finance.

The lowered position of women under this feudalistic government perhaps explains the noticeable diminution in the importance of writings by court ladies; indeed, there was hardly a woman writer of distinction between the 13th and 19th centuries.

In many of the higher algae, there is a progressive diminution of the haplophase and an increase in the importance of the diplophase, a trend that is especially noticeable in the evolution of the vascular plants (e.g., ferns, conifers, and flowering plants).

One important influence was full employment (at least until the 1970s), but others were the increased importance of governments as employers, an apparent diminution of the significance of labour cost in product market competition, and, from the 1970s, the floating of national exchange rates.

There is a diminution of complexity.

We do not measure the corresponding diminution of taxpayers' wealth.

Rather, one is saddened by the diminution of sexual desire.

There was no diminution of crowds or enthusiasm.

But any diminution of political competition should trouble democrats.

Second, councils fear a further diminution of their powers.