Other than looking a little out of breath early on, the striker did not seem much diminished for his surgery and five weeks without a competitive game.
Act II doesn't so much diminish Platt's performance as smudge it a little, like a beautiful charcoal drawing that's been handled too much.
A few dozen anecdotes about courses that allegedly have significant flaws does not diminish that fact, much less support the report's sweeping claims". The study looked at UC graduation requirements, course descriptions and class reading lists, and included interviews with students and faculty.
Tiger is not with us, but then, in many respects, he has been missing for some time, and his absence, it is sad to say, does not diminish the occasion as much as it once would have.
The suit was widely publicized in the local media — publicity that did not diminish much even after he won in 1994 because the diocese kept appealing.
This sentiment did not diminish much in 62 years, when, in 1799, during the French occupation of Tuscany, the people called for the long-dead Gian Gastone to ascend the throne.
Unlike advertising, science does make useful progress, but this does not diminish the area of uncertainty so much as move it to new questions.
Although disappointing, this does not diminish the virtue of now having a much more robust standardization program.
