Accordingly, if an institutional process is to be corrupted it must suffer some form of moral diminution, and therefore in its uncorrupted state it must be at least morally legitimate.
Phylogenetically diverse taxa undergo some form of chromatin diminution or chromosome elimination, including representatives from the ciliates, nematodes, copepods, lampreys, and hagfish [ 1- 7].
I would call it something close to a pattern, but I'm not sufficiently English for that sort of diminution.
Functional inhibition of autophagy in the gland was confirmed by immunoblotting, showing accumulation of unlipidated LC3-I form and diminution of the processed lipidated LC3-II form (Fig. 1C ).
Weber's theory of bureaucracy, however, emphasizes not only its comparative technical and proficiency advantages but also attributes its dominance as a form of organization to the diminution of caste systems (such as feudalism) and other forms of inequitable social relations based upon a person's status.
It is deduced from this table that the normalization (antisickling activity) causes the reappearance of the circular form of the erythrocytes, the diminution of their perimeter and the increase in cellular surface.
Intensive agriculture in The Netherlands has a price in the form of environmental degradation and the diminution of nature and landscape values.
However hard she tried, she could not get rid of this feeling of diminution and abandonment.
Thirty four (25.76%) patients complained of diminution of vision.
When New York Times columnist Tom Friedman quoted me recently on the history of diminution of religious pluralism in the Muslim world, some of my Arab friends wondered if I had embraced the same binary view of one form of radical Islam being less of a menace than the other.
These analogies can be taken to mean that the form of akrasia that Aristotle calls weakness rather than impetuosity always results from some diminution of cognitive or intellectual acuity at the moment of action.
