That is more power than ever invested in a Budget Committee chief and a significant diminution in the appropriation panel's traditional sway.
Announced by president Mahmoud Abbas last week (video), the move is a significant diminution of Palestinian ambitions after its application for full statehood failed last year when it was blocked by the US in the security council.
But it is causing a rift with the American military, which contends that any significant diminution of the Awakening could result in renewed violence, jeopardizing the substantial security gains in the past year.
The contract stated that there would be a constructive termination if "a significant diminution in your responsibilities, authority or scope of duties is effected by the board of directors," even if his title did not change.
"I don't believe in privatisation of Channel 4 – there would be an inevitable and very significant diminution of the quality of programming and it would become bland," Johnson told attendees at the Media Summit 2009 in London today.
Cardinal O'Connor's outsized personality and his in-your-face skills with the New York media camouflaged what Catholic historians and church observers agree is a significant diminution in the influence of bishops in the daily lives of American Catholics.
This suggests that severely scaling back Our incentive plan — and its attendant costs — would not lead to a significant diminution in faithfulness, obedience, repentance, or other benefits accruing to Ourself.
Festo's appeal, filed by Robert H. Bork, the former appeals court judge, told the Supreme Court that the ruling would have an acutely "destabilizing" effect on 1.2 million existing patents, with a "significant diminution" of patent holders' property rights.
I do not anticipate the lack of a Scotsman in the final causing significant diminution in my snack or alcohol consumption and, what the hell, I may even make myself a toasted-ham-and-cheese sandwich later on, so that might be something else for the experts to consider.
This resulted in a significant diminution of turbulence stresses, particularly with the rectangular VG configuration.
Reduction of the peptide size below 30 amino acids resulted in a significant diminution of activity.
