As applied to Muhammad Ali, the march of time may one day diminish his boasts and his poetry, maybe even his butterflies and bees.
Perhaps, as time goes by, as more pioneers break racial, sexual, gender, religious, ethnic, language, and other barriers, athletes' very being may one day have diminished political implications, but sport has always been and will forever have political consequences and possibilities.
You might not rely on NITV national news like my mob does, but if you sit idly by and watch SBS diminish the Aboriginal voice – the First Voice of this nation – then you shouldn't be surprised if one day they diminish yours as well.
The no-trade list in his contract specifies only two teams, but failures like the one Sunday night diminish what the Mets can get in return for him.
What's wrong with Persia, then, isn't its autocratic form of government but its size, which in the grand cycle of things is doomed one day to be diminished.
Growing up in the welfare state, it was possible to believe, and to find evidence, that class division and inequality were diminishing and might one day be gone.
Malcolm Turnbull: He lost the Liberal leadership at the back end of 2009, but an unexpectedly strong showing from Tony Abbott in the federal election meant that his chances of returning one day to lead his party were greatly diminished.
As your 30s progress, the number of things that make you want to gnaw your own arm off generally diminish until, one day, you find yourself voluntarily listening to the soundtrack to Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, while considering downloading the soundtrack to Cats, and wonder what appalling new stage of life you have entered.
One day, science will find a way to diminish this tide of sorrow washing into families across the globe.
The same dilemma may one day be posed at the Mail, where newspapering is already a separate, diminishing part of group activities.
The mere possibility that a combination of crippling student loan debt, rising housing prices, and diminishing starting salaries would force me to live with my parents for even one day beyond graduation makes my worsening limp seem not so bad.
