Tax policy makes federal and state governments complicit in the deepening of existing inequalities that they are ostensibly responsible for diminishing in the first place.
That is because short telomere length in somatic tissues ostensibly reflects less somatic cell reserves, expressed in diminished ability of stem cells, including HSCs, to maintain tissue repair.
It's certainly true that there's a virtual cinematic genre in which filmmakers increase the suffering of the audience, ostensibly in order to diminish the suffering of others (e.g., the movie's subjects, or people who resemble them), but who actually, in the process, reduce their own, through the vanity of their public display of virtue and compassion.
The ban is ostensibly in place to diminish the negative side effects associated with excessive gaming, particularly online gaming.
Ostensibly a morality tale, it attempted to portray glamorous vice as wicked but merely diminished the vice and upgraded the glamour.
The top professional leagues have achieved such international reach, both in filling out their rosters and in the fan bases from which they draw their support, that the allure of ostensibly amateur spectacles like the World Cup and the Olympics (which Brazil will host, too, in 2016) is diminished by comparison.
Trump also ordered a stepped-up military presence on the southern border, ostensibly aimed at countering a migrant caravan that remains about 900 miles south of the U.S. and has diminished in size, according to Mexican officials and reporters on the scene.
The Ku Klux Klan, a diminished yet still-active organization in parts of the U.S. South, began issuing leaflets after the attacks, ostensibly to intimidate members of black communities and to recruit white members.
The crowds have diminished.
