Perhaps they, and many others, are simply being gulled by spinmeisters who want to attack the coalition and prevent any diminution of the state.
In the circumstances that prevail today, they are especially bereft of means to combat the afflictions that beset us: involuntary unemployment, environmental degradation, public squalor and a marked diminution of the state's capacity to serve the interests of its people (in contrast to its economic elites), even as productive capacities increase.
As David Held (2003, 478) notes, "a cosmopolitan polity does not call for a diminution per se of state power and capacity across the globe.
A David Ng, a Manhattan landlord-tenant lawyer, said that while the letter writer could file a complaint for diminution of services with the state Division of Housing and Community Renewal, that would not be useful since the problem was quickly resolved by the letter writer herself.
UTILITIES -- Over the past decade, most of the state's large public utilities have been acquired by out-of-state corporations, with the attendant diminution of centralized management employment in New Jersey.
Finally, one participant stated the diminution of treatment costs for healthcare systems as another proxy on which to evaluate the success of translational research.
The large states, fearing a diminution of their influence in the legislature under this plan, opposed this proposal.
Even if they did, it would be wrong to expect any diminution of repression in the world's cruellest state.
(The welfare state provides stability, prevents revolution and accepts a certain diminution of freedom and rule by technocrats as a trade-off).
"Our challenge is to have more people understand the academic side of Penn State," said Erickson, who added that would not mean the diminution of athletics.
