The prospect of an American strike diminished after America's intelligence services published their inconvenient finding last December that Iran had stopped trying to design a nuclear weapon in 2003.
Faced with grumblings about a player strike or diminished attendance during the playoffs, the league had no choice but to act quickly.
Not to lend a hand after the disastrous lightning strike would diminish the lucrative tourism in the area, and also affect the quality of life of the neighborhood.
Efforts to stop the Iranian nuclear programme had become "sapped of energy" as the threat of an Israeli military strike had diminished in the public's mind in recent weeks, he wrote in Israel Hayom, the country's largest circulation newspaper.
"We will continue the strikes to diminish their potential," the minister said.
Mr. Davidson said in a statement that the company was raising capital in March when the severe downturn in technology stocks struck, drastically diminishing the value of many Internet companies.
Over the years, al-Qaida tried to pull off other big strikes, with diminishing success, and also dispersed geographically, morphing into al-Qaida in Iraq, al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, and so on.
It's been noticeable that apart from Monday's attack, the number of drone strikes has diminished significantly as the political upheavals have worsened.
Former Defence Secretary Tory Liam Fox told the BBC the UK needed to tackle IS in every way it could, including taking part in air strikes to "diminish their military capability".
Dagan's view that a unilateral Israeli strike would intensify, not diminish, the danger posed by Iran is now the general view of the dissident politicians and security chiefs.
