Sentence examples for the only diminished from inspiring English sources

In a country where ex-presidents' families and friends are often hounded by their enemies, Mr Lee's visit to the island can best be explained as a way of shoring up his defences before he goes.The trouble is, he is not the only diminished leader in the neighbourhood.

Pairing Untouchable with MacMillan's 1965 Song of the Earth only diminished the power of both.

The OR only diminished substantially after adjusting for alcohol intake in the female group (from 1.313 to 1.225).> -wrap-foot> BD = basic demographics (age and level of education); OR = odds ratio; CI = confidence interval; when controlling for additional risk factors, ordinal variables were used.

Yet the civil war only diminished because the Shi'ites achieved a brutal, large-scale ethnic cleansing of Baghdad (and that showed to the Sunnis that the next best option was to cash in).

In contrast, treatment of lowland fetal sheep with the α-adrenergic antagonist phentolamine only diminished the increase in femoral vascular resistance during acute hypoxia (14).

Of course, none of these options actually eliminated the noise; they only diminished it a tad.

So when memory disappears, the victims are not only diminished but also yanked out of the only context they have ever known.

Replacing the piperidine ring by a N,N-diisobutyl-residue not only diminished the β2/3 subunit dependence (Fig. 2F), but also induced γ-subunit dependence.

Although HSF1 knockdown only diminished the MICB expression in H1339 cells, NZ28 strongly reduced the ic and membrane MICA and MICB expression in control as well as in HSF1 knockdown cells (Fig.  4b, c).

And this time television, with its crisp logos, only diminished the event -- "America Under Attack," "Attack on America," as though this was another school shooting or forest fire, something that could be packaged with room to melodramatize.

This competition not only diminished the influx of transport receptors but also their intra-gel movement (see Supplementary Figure S4 and Table I).