Our results also indicate that real income has a positive effect on happiness up to a certain point, at which point additional income has diminishing impacts on happiness.
Ceremonial speeches and political appeals have had diminishing impact on changing the culture of education in this respect.
However, the inability of U.S. forces to stabilize Iraq and put down insurgents has diminished the impact of the original "victory" and undermined the threat potential of U.S. military force.
At the same time a further change in tallying procedures has diminished the potential impact of lower-ranked votes, explained Steve Pond, a writer for TheWrap.com, who has made a close study of the process.
Since 2004, Second Response has diminished the debilitating impact of post-traumatic stress in an estimated 250,000 worldwide.
Green and red manes also echo the hair of punk and the protest movement, though Brownsell argues its impact has diminished.
But crude oil has now been erupting into the Gulf of Mexico for over a month, and the sense that the Obama administration is treating the spill as an urgent national emergency has diminished even as the impact of the disaster has magnified.
However, the report said, "the likelihood of these risks and their potential impacts has diminished, and the possibility of a stronger-than-anticipated recovery in high-income countries has increased".
Without a compelling answer to the question 'Survival for the sake of what?' we can find ourselves, to borrow from Thoreau, "living lives of quiet desperation". Once our basic needs and desires are met (recently estimated to require a salary of $83,000), greater wealth has diminishing incremental impact on our happiness.
His weight has diminished.
"The message has diminished".
