He came out damaged, harmed -- diminished as a human being.
But that pain of the sequester was quickly forgotten because last month's government shutdown caused even more harm by diminishing these services even more.
Coke was transferred from the Common Pleas, where he was succeeded by Hobart, to the Court of King's Bench on 25 October 1613, on the advice of Bacon, presumably because Bacon and the king felt that if he was moved from a court dedicated to protecting the rights of the people to one dedicated to the rights of the king, "his capacity for harm would be diminished".
In this way, her humanity is harmed by being diminished.
"I was convinced," Vance wrote, "that as time passed the chances of physical harm to the hostages diminished".
Mr. Frum pats the administration on the back for its conduct of the war in Afghanistan ("the terrorists' ability to do harm had been greatly diminished after their humiliation in Afghanistan and the rolling up of their overseas networks"), without grappling with the ongoing problems in post-Taliban Afghanistan or the continuing dangers posed by an uncowed Al Qaeda around the world.
Even some religious leaders have diminished the harm of sexual assault by asserting that "it's only words," ignoring the voices of women who have spoken out to contradict that claim.
One could further speculate that the promulgation of the premise that taxon-based scholars can be replaced by technicians [17] through the DNA barcoding paradigm [2] has caused irreversible harm to this already diminished field.
It has been suggested by comparison of left- with right-sided irradiation that radiotherapy may double not only the mortality from heart disease, but also that from lung cancer [ 21], although technological improvements may have diminished these harms to some extent.
While there may be one intervention among several that is most effective for prevention, such as risk-reducing mastectomy (versus enhanced surveillance) to diminish harm from a BRCA1/2 mutation, SERs must consider evidence of benefits and harms as well as uptake for each possible intervention.
