Instead, the qualifying offer diminished his value to the point where the Dodgers re-signed him for two years and $20 million.
He signed shrewdly in the summer and has managed his squad with enough aplomb that the early European qualifying ties have not diminished the squad's energy or application through the season.
In addition, African health research institutions are crippled by fragmentation, lack of coordination, diminishing critical mass of qualified African researchers, inadequate research infrastructure, and inconsistent and limited funding opportunities [ 4, 5].
In our STY1 data, transposon insertion into degS was somewhat diminished, but not enough to qualify the gene for the "selected" category, suggesting at least some effect of the lack of a functional HtrA in STY2.
Teams now arrive at the City of Manchester Stadium with a plan to deny Elano space and, with Benjani Mwaruwari looking like another expensive City striker finding it difficult to score, their hopes of qualifying for Europe are diminishing.
Not until 1831, after he had qualified for the bar, did his religious doubts diminish sufficiently for him to begin his theological education.
Is it wise for a man to undertake a grand-scale interior design and property development project at the same time as he's trying to qualify a football team for the Champions League on a hugely diminished budget?
Two years ago, Garciaparra, the Cubs infielder, would have qualified as a megawatt star at the winter meetings, but injuries have diminished his market value.
She said that since she finished her book, in the spring of 2014, her sensitivity had steadily diminished, as the result of an intervention by a friend who had recently qualified as a registered nutritional therapist.
Further, we lived in Atlanta through the Bush years, first hand witnesses to the devastating results of a politically-driven CDC director** diminishing the CDC's effectiveness with budget cuts and by driving away highly qualified individuals.
For example, if there are diminishing returns to additional education, the returns to overeducation in a sample of highly qualified workers are expected to be even less than if the data are pooled.
