Sentence examples for really diminished from inspiring English sources

But the financial crisis really diminished the prestige of those who think that financial markets are always efficient and work extremely well".

The game against Slovakia really diminished any humble hope for our team getting into the knock-out stages and when Wales scored the third goal against us, I changed channels during a football match for the first time.

As the movie advances, and ironic detachment recedes, this on-screen gimmick noticeably declines, too, and by the end it has disappeared altogether, although everyone's web use has not really diminished one bit.

Because A Clockwork Orange is also an allegorical tale of state control – of the establishment versus the individual, of puppet-masters and puppets – which could only have been concocted during the paranoid postwar/cold war years, but whose themes have never really diminished since publication.

Billings for the account, which Fallon was awarded in mid-January, were initially estimated at $40 million to $50 million, but "our overall marketing needs really diminished," said Kristine Stebbins, vice president for marketing at OmniSky in Palo Alto, Calif., confirming a report of the decision in the online edition of Adweek.

But has popularity really diminished the festival spirit?

It really diminishes his credibility.

Being the No. 3 guy really diminishes those chances.

But perhaps that knowledge doesn't really diminish the show's effectiveness.

The crowds don't really diminish at Los Amigos and Garfinkel's, they replenish.

"It really diminishes what states have said about marriage," said Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.