It can either increase the chances you'll make a deal or diminish them.
Dr Mary Curnock Cook, the chief executive of Ucas (the university admissions service), said recently that "with further increases in the gap between men and women entering higher education, we can now see clearly that concentrating outreach efforts on young men, particularly white men, would make a significant contribution to diminishing the rich-poor gap".
That, combined with a fierce escalation of American and NATO attacks on Taliban fighters, suggested that American commanders are trying to force insurgent leaders to make a deal — and in as diminished and shrunken a form as they can be reduced to.
"The research is pretty clear that it's never appropriate to shame a child, or to make a child feel degraded or diminished... Positive things have a much more powerful effect on shaping behavior than any punishment," he told MyHealthNewsDaily.
He recently told MyHealthNewsDaily, "The research is pretty clear that it's never appropriate to shame a child, or to make a child feel degraded or diminished," adding: "Positive things have a much more powerful effect on shaping behavior than any punishment".
If you notice your appetite has diminished, make an appointment with your doctor.
Black knows that she has diminished the chance to make a safe place for her king on the kingside.
Adès and Meredith Oakes, his librettist, made a point of diminishing Prospero's powers, so that he would be a more vulnerable, dramatically pliable figure.
Officials involved in the negotiations believe the chances of making a deal will diminish significantly once the Yankees report to spring training next week.
But tonight left him lagging in delegates and with a diminished ability to make that case, failing to meet his own campaign's best-case scenarios.
