Despite its numerous enterprises, its importance diminished in the 1920s.
As both free and commercial online services like Prodigy, FidoNet, Usenet, Gopher, and many others rose, and as NSFNET became the Internet's backbone, ARPANET's importance diminished.
The airport became a principal stopover point in the early years of postwar transatlantic air travel, but its importance diminished with the introduction of long-range aircraft that did not require refueling.
Mr. Sheldon, 53, is one of a handful of managers with the job of investing Abu Dhabi's oil wealth with an eye to preparing the economy for the day, still far in the future, when oil's importance diminishes and eventually flickers out.
For example, specific transcripts in GH5 (m.22928), GH13 (m.23494), GH43 (m.5510), GH45 (m.23474), and GH48 (m.19942) appear to be highly transcribed in glucose-grown cultures, but their relative importance diminishes in lignocellulosic biomass-grown cultures.
But we will see its importance diminish as online becomes more user-friendly.
They usually appear within the first month of treatment albeit their frequence and importance diminish after six months of use.
In fact, Germany's relative importance has diminished.
For many of the 1952 symposium participants, Europe's cultural importance had diminished as drastically as its political power.
But more importantly, MTV's importance has diminished exponentially since the 80s, and budgets for music videos are depressingly low.
