And since Duke's time the performing opportunities (the real way the music grows) have considerably diminished.
Vickers said: "The Hong Kong government appears to now have considerably diminished autonomy and the [central government] liaison office seems to be strengthening its position.
Since the war over Kosovo and his indictment on war crimes charges, Mr. Milosevic's motivation to please the West by allowing a zone of free speech has considerably diminished.
Interestingly, a further batch of 40 new boys were introduced just at the end of the epidemic, when the chances of infection must have considerably diminished; six of these were ultimately infected during the period in which 14 cases of infection and 4 cases of reinfection were reported among the old boys (see Fig. S12).
A few weeks' experience considerably diminishes his respect for muffins and buttered toast.
In Anatolia, however, the royal dominions had been considerably diminished after the death of Mithradates V: Paphlagonia had freed itself, and Phrygia (c. 116 bce) had been linked to the Roman province of Asia.
San Lorenzo was then dismissed from his command and replaced by dom Joanne Mendes de Vasconcelos, who easily managed to retake both Mourão and Olivença in the following months, since their Spanish garrisons had been considerably diminished in order to move troops to face the French armies in Catalonia.
Standing tall, Dingell is 6ft 3in, but his stature has been considerably diminished since knee replacement surgery confined him to a scooter, which he souped up with a Michigan number plate that reads "The Dean" in ode to his seniority.
This decrease estimated in 1975 to be 20 percent of the 1950 level and still rising has come chiefly from water diversion for irrigation and through evaporation from the artificial reservoirs; and, as a result of it, the salinity of the Sea of Azov has risen considerably, diminishing the sea's biological productivity and lowering fish catches.
Nevertheless, these patients still have deficits in more advanced visual activities resulting in considerably diminished VRQoL [ 3].
