As shown in Figure 1A, the a go1 RNAi line, in which the expression of AGO1s is diminished, was much more susceptible to RSV infection and showed more severe symptoms.
"Guantánamo is a negative symbol, but it is much diminished because we are seen as trying to close it," the official said.
Mr Rasai hinted that Mr Mashai and the Green Movement, albeit now much diminished, may be working in sinister concert; after all, he pointed out, both are "uncommitted to the Guardianship of the Jurist".Reverence for the hidden imam has long been an accepted part of Shia Islam, but millenarian zeal has produced schismatics in the past the Bahais, for instance, who are now banned and persecuted.
The latter was much diminished when BiPADDA was replaced by the compound mutant BiPADDA V461F, which is unable to engage substrate.
With the deregulation of the airline industry, however, the role of the CAB was much diminished, and its residual functions were assumed by the Department of Transportation.
But while the importance of the first two is much diminished, the Corporation, the least reformed of all, is more influential than it has been since its medieval heyday.Dating back to the early 12th century, it owes its survival to what Tony Travers, professor of local government at the London School of Economics, calls a "steely determination" to maintain its power.
That status is less of a boast than it once was: Italy's left is much diminished these days.
Post-Wapping, the NUJ is much diminished and unions across the British media are eunuchs with little industrial muscle.
Pretended flight as a device for luring an unjust enemy into an ambush can be right in a just war, but lying to the enemy is wrong, although its gravity is much diminished by the duty not to reveal the truth to the enemy, a duty compatible with the coexisting duty not to lie.
IN AN age of computer animation so good that prehistoric creatures can be made the subject of realistic-looking wildlife documentaries, the attractions of the crumbling fossils on which those animations are based are much diminished.
