Sitting there, alone, with a microphone pointed at his face like a long finger of accusation, the oil titan looked so small — diminished, it seemed, by the immensity of the environmental, economic and social damage done.
SUSAN ARICK "Stone Arabia," by Dana Spiotta "This story of a small, diminishing family and how they remember themselves both individually and collectively beautifully tells the tale how all of us use memory as a means for living our lives, for being remembered and how after we have gone we are ultimately only recollections of those who knew us".
Some initial concerns have been raised over the efficacy of bimonthly VTE because patients in the VIEW 2 exhibited small, diminishing 'sawtooth' variations in macular thickness, though visual acuities did not show similar changes.
The new design also uses a "flying tamper," a refinement that "hammers" the nuclear material to squeeze it even harder, so bombs can be made smaller without diminishing their explosive force... Writer suggests that Iraq may have purchased nuclear weapons technology from Pakistan, which also uses the "flying tamper" design..
If comparing the approximation term ((gamma _{mathrm {x}}-1) m_{mathrm {x}}^{(2,2)} text {tr}[{mathbf {!A}}^{T}{mathbf {A}}] {mathbf {{Delta }}}_{epsilon }) with (gamma _{mathrm {x}} m_{mathrm {x}}^{(2,2)} text {tr}[{mathbf {!A}}^{T}{mathbf {A}}]{mathbf {I}}_{M+P}), we recognize that the approximation is of order 1/M smaller, thus diminishes with higher filter order.
Food, by contrast, is a small and diminishing fraction of the total burden.
For many products, labour is a small and diminishing fraction of total costs.
In a way, then, he sums up the real News Corp problem: management by a small and diminishing band of brothers.
The university speaks for a small and diminishing force within American Protestantism and, by extension, within American society generally.
The New Yorker, July 16 , 1990P. 30 Saturday, May 8 , 1830finds the General of Colombia surrounded by a small and diminishing band of supporters.
