Presumably, to return to the criminalization of smoking example, it would not be enough, on this argument, to point to the fact that there may be no diminution in the adequacy of valuable options available to the smoker if the conclusion is to be that criminal fines should legitimately be imposed.
This requirement cannot be bypassed; but, if consent is sought by letter from or through the school – the usual method – there may be a major diminution of participation-rate through non-response.
Further this would eliminate causes other than uncorrected aphakia, which may be responsible for diminution of vision such as glaucoma, dense central corneal opacities, complications of cataract extraction and posterior segment pathology.
There are, however, signs that global processes may be leading to the diminution of Western power in a variety of contexts, including sports.
The Pt(111)–HUPD bond energy is weaker in the presence of Schem than in its absence, and this bond energy diminution may be assigned to local electronic effects arising from presence of Schem.
Nothing is truer than philosopher Samuel Johnson's apercu 258 years ago in The Idler that, "Among the calamities of war may be jointly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates and credulity encourages".
He reasons this since "the only universal law as to a person's desire for a commodity is that it diminishes... but this diminution may be slow or rapid.
Alternatively, the degree of autoAb diminution may be insufficient to result in clinically detectable decreases in renal ICs.
This diminution may be caused by signal dilution due to the heterogeneous cellular nature of the hippocampus.
This may be due to a diminution of the switchable spiropyran units, which was also observed in the photocyclic spectroscopic study and was attributed to the photobleaching of the molecules, possible merocyanine aggregations or merocyanine-polymer subgroup interactions.
