Russia argues that such support diminishes the possibility of a negotiated solution.
Later, however, when the Ceaușescu government focused on retiring the country's international debt, such support diminished considerably.
Now, again, it's an interesting tactical question: If support diminishes from the West, will that allow Iran to fill a vacuum?
Benefits are being cut, advice and advocacy services savaged, housing support diminished, and mental health and social care services more tightly rationed.
Mr. Paul's support diminishes with age, dropping to just over 1 in 10 among voters age 65 and older, a group that favors Mr. Romney.
Even with support diminished by the continuing series of revelations, Nixon hoped to fight the charges.
I also worked for a woman, Lotte Bailyn, and she did a study of women in academia that showed younger women find support from their male mentors and rise, and then, as they get older, they find their support diminishing.
In the I-EE rats, preferential use of the unaffected forepaw for postural support diminished rapidly, from the 11th to the 30th post-lesion day [F 1,8) = 496.19, p<0.001] but asymmetries in forelimb postural-support were not fully compensated for over the postlesion period examined, as indicated by a comparison to S rats (day 30, I-EE: −0.15±0.02; S: 0.04±0.06; p<0.0001) (Fig. 4C).
When one form of state or social support diminishes or disappears, people may actively seek out others.
