Sentence examples for in a diminished state from inspiring English sources

"Few glaciers will remain in the Interior and Rockies regions, but maritime glaciers, in particular those in northwestern British Columbia, will survive in a diminished state," the investigators said.

The president, with his re-election on the horizon, emerges from the showdown in a diminished state after giving considerable ground and struggling to rise above a deep partisan intransigence that has engulfed Washington.

John Sandweg, a former top aide to Napolitano and acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement under President Barack Obama, said the complicated politics of Nielsen's situation combined with a résumé that is less extensive relative to some of her predecessors leave her in a "diminished state" compared with some of her predecessors.

Mr. Trump has risen quickly to the top of several polls, challenging or erasing the long-held leads of Mr. Walker in Iowa and Mr. Bush in New Hampshire, and he enters the debates with far greater name recognition and personal wealth to draw on than the other candidates, who cannot afford to leave the debate in a diminished state.

By returning to Plain Dealing in such a diminished state, Pershing promised to darken the memory of his and Woodrow's heroic pasts and to serve up a new picture of what loss can do.

Is it something to do with their loss of empire, and their new role in the world, as a diminished state desperately clinging to its glorious past?

Managing arduous tasks and intercultural interactions are already tricky enough; doing so while in a diminished cognitive state only adds to the difficulty.

They want to keep on good terms with a party which, even in its diminished state, could yet hold the balance of power in 2015.The permanent campaignIndeed, the extent to which an election that is officially more than three years away already intrudes upon the thoughts of senior Conservatives is something to behold.

A: The Supreme Court will continue to operate in the diminished state of only having eight justices.

Today’s challenge is how to meet those ambitious expectations in an era of diminished state support for higher education.

Even in its diminished state — Mr. Harman bought it for a dollar in addition to assuming some $40 million in liabilities — the magazine is aimed at a mass audience in the kind of Middle America places where Ms. Brown, a hothouse flower of Manhattan media, rarely visits.