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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.

"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.

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.

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.

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.

A significant diminution in the size of trophozoites was detected in abscesses from mice independently of MPL treatment (from 5.8 ± 1.1  µm at 2 days p.i. to 2.7 ± 1.9  µm at 7 days p.i). compared with trophozoites dimensions observed in susceptible hamsters (9.6 ± 2.7  µm) (P < 0.01).

Similar results were obtained at four and seven days p.i.; a significant diminution in the size of the trophozoites was observed in liver from mice, independently of the treatment, compared to trophozoites size from hamster.

As no significant diminution in the amount of mitochondria per leaf area was observed, the reduced amount of mtDNA in the OEX indicates that these organelles possess lower genome copy number than their counterparts in Col-0 and KO plants.

Furthermore, we observed a significant diminution in the amount of co-immunoprecipitated PrPC when performing the experiment in cells depleted of cholesterol.