Sentence examples for seeks to diminish from inspiring English sources

She said that "The students concerned found the poster deeply offensive, as do I; anything which seeks to diminish the horror of rape is abhorrent and completely unacceptable".

The exam had drawn sharp criticism from organizations like FairTest, a nonprofit that seeks to diminish the role of standardized tests like the SAT.

PAGE A6 RUSSIA TRIES TO BYPASS NATO Russia has put together a set of proposals that seeks to diminish the influence of NATO and similar security groups by promoting a broader security organization.

The potential casualty is Martin Meehan, a warrior in the struggle for campaign finance reform and co-author of the Shays-Meehan bill, which seeks to diminish the influence of soft money in American politics.

In that way, the commercial seeks to diminish her Democratic opponents while also suggesting she is the one formidable opponent the Republicans worry about, a message meant to energize the Democratic base.

The most unexpected thing about A Smell of Burning is the way it seeks to diminish stigma around epilepsy, but in its use of language often deepens that stigma.

From a religious perspective, all our spirits are diminished so long as we seek to diminish another and so long as we fail to stop the diminishment of another.

Those recommendations seek to diminish short-term risky behavior.

But by branding her a suicidal obsessive, her opponents sought to diminish her idealism.

The ABS has sought to diminish the frequency that it uses the punishment.

"By moving up the verdict, the Russian authorities apparently sought to diminish planned demonstrations.