Sentence examples for have diminished importance from inspiring English sources

But it may also signal an adaptation, instinctive or strategic, to an increasingly impatient audience — one with gigabytes of music in a pocket, and countless other choices a click away online — and to a music market where recordings have diminished importance.

Flash these days seems to have diminishing importance as a platform for web development.

Traditional mining centres in Minas Gerais, Goiás, and Mato Grosso have diminished in importance.

Meanwhile, the actors have diminished in importance (no more personalities on the scale of Palance, Piccoli, Bardot).

Once the main attraction of any drawing room, the mantelpiece may have diminished in importance over the years, as fireplaces were replaced by central heating and interior fashions moved on.

I've been frustrated by the emergence of a conventional wisdom — not limited to critics — according to which movies have diminished in importance and the arguments about them have diminished in intensity since whenever the good old days are supposed to have been.

As we have come to rely on experimental science to understand principles, we have diminished the importance of experiential knowledge in understanding and implementing practices.

"I think when viewed through a historical lens the role and importance of the White House press corps today have diminished — perhaps significantly," Mark McKinnon says.

There are complaints that the paper has lost energy since Benjamin C. Bradlee retired as editor, in September of 1991, but nothing seems to have diminished the influence that the Post holds over the nation's political agenda; and nothing has diminished the paper's almost mystical importance to the city's permanent population of malcontents, leakers, and strivers.

The crowds have diminished.

Civil liberties have diminished.