But that threat is of diminishing value.
JERUSALEM, Oct. 13 — A study of the 2006 Israeli-Hezbollah war commissioned by the United States Air Force and to be published this month concludes that Israel's use of air power was of diminishing value as the fight dragged on because it was used without enough discrimination.
From Beijing's perspective, Snowden was an asset of diminishing value: he had already given Chinese authorities a gift that will be paying dividends for years to come.
If, as the Illinois Supreme Court apparently thought, that test must be rigorously applied in every case, anonymous tips would be of greatly diminished value in police work.
Conventionally, preference convergence toward consensus among initially disagreeing decision makers is understood in terms of diminishing value differences.
Whether that is because of the diminishing value of pretty much having the same top DJs play every single event, or just a community-building push for having you "do you," depends on what side of the bed you get up on in the morning.
Among the 168,000 elderly and 25,000 young children and families we serve, many are facing the diminishing value of their pensions, fluctuating inflation rates and slashed incomes.
The half-hour of material introduced 10 years ago in Apocalypse Now Redux is of no value, it diminishes the film and is to be avoided.
If Paterson's militia, or other militias, had not brought their own weapons to the Continental Army they would have been unprepared for battle and would thus have been of much diminished military value.
Our results reject the hypothesis that the paradox is of marginal value and its force diminishes with experience.
McCrone said oil remains of huge economic significance to Scotland, but it is, he cautioned of more limited and diminishing value.
