"Spitzer played hardball with Charlie, and Spitzer could not have done that if Charlie were not diminished," said one political operative from Harlem.
He views religious freedom as being enhanced, not diminished, if we allow religious institutions and groups to participate on equal terms with nonreligious organizations in government programs where there is no threat to individual religious liberty.
Thus, Hartshorne can say that God's goodness is not diminished if a fragmentary being is heedless of the good of others, by indifference or harmful intent.
Others argue that, even if genetic diversity were not diminished by cloning, a society that supports reproductive cloning might be taken to express the view that variety is not important.
Ask all of our retirees, whose pensions have not diminished, if Nicolas Sarkozy is not the president that France still needs!
Importantly, complications of central vascular access define the primary complications of PAC, and thus are not diminished if the patient only has a central venous catheter placed.
If high-end inequality is not diminished by removing the ways the wealthy use the state to extract resources from the rest of society, the inequalities that conservatives believe are just--those that flow from innovation and hard work--will be in danger.
Complex life may well be the wonder of the universe, and if it is, its status is not diminished by the fact that we can indeed bisect it, that we kill it routinely.
In addition, the transmission of genes to progeny is in principle not diminished or diluted if the reporter genes can replicate within the genomes of host cells.
