Granted, the contents of a formerly sealed tomb are diminished when transferred to a windowless gallery, but a little effort of imagination makes good the loss.
After independence in 1947, the power and wealth of the royal courts quickly dissipated, the patronage system died out, and many formerly titled families, their fortunes much diminished, eventually turned their palaces and haveli mansions into hotels.
The list included only six Italians, a group whose numbers and influence in the College of Cardinals has diminished during the reign of John Paul, formerly the archbishop of Krakow, Poland.
A group of old Chinese men, who sat in the park chatting and gazing across the river, said traffic across the formerly busy bridge between the two nations has diminished to occasional aid rather than thriving trade.
As formerly stable staff positions become revolving doors and longevity is diminished, where do inexperienced lawmakers and staffers turn for help?
Similarly, splenocytes that descended from mice that had formerly been infected with AdVαT2ib but not from those infected with AdVGFP displayed diminished responsiveness to TLR2-specific but not to TLR7-specific challenge (Fig. 8D).
And even in formerly great apple-growing states, including New York, the number of different apples has greatly diminished.
The civil war in Congo, formerly called Zaire, which at one point drew in the armies of seven African nations, has diminished as recent peace agreements come into effect.
Formerly a focal point of the offense, Chrebet's opportunities to make game-turning plays have been diminished with the emergence of Laveranues Coles, who has become Pennington's favorite target.
"The science has been diminished certainly, not on a particular side, but for the criminal justice system as a whole," says Jo Millington, formerly of the FSS and the Met Police.
Transitions from multiple feeder schools to a single higher level school were associated with diminished friendship stability, more loosely connected friendship networks, increased social distance between students, and friendship segregation between students who formerly attended different schools.
