Sentence examples for thereby diminished from inspiring English sources

These arise as a result of diminished cell contribution from the ventral sclerotome and thereby diminished centrum height (Fig. 9a-b).

As a 2004 study documented, the advantage of well-connected investors was thereby diminished.

He also said Mr. Rafsanjani had exaggerated the role of democracy in Islamic government and thereby diminished the importance of divine sanction.

This would not be so if debt-financed spending inevitably drove up interest rates and thereby diminished private investment.

The rally in the second half of a day-night doubleheader thereby diminished, just slightly, one of the great collapses in more than a century of baseball — 19 losses in 26 games.

The new Shia establishment hates the arming of the Sunni militias because it thinks they may one day turn their guns against the Shias.The current edgy lull is due in large measure to a series of local deals cut between the American army (and the British army in Basra) and groups close to the insurgents, with the centrally run state thereby diminished.

An enlarged army would strengthen Afghanistan's central government, thereby diminishing the power of the often corrupt local police departments.

It supposes that a military man can make peace with India, thereby diminishing the institution that made him.

But European bounties for enemy scalps drove the practice to unprecedented levels, thereby diminishing the deep cultural significance that scalping once had for native peoples.

"Shame on Barack Obama," the senator said, for trying to profit politically, thereby "diminishing Sept. 11 and the killing of Osama bin Laden".

If earnings are paid out as dividends, however, they cannot be used for company expansion (which thereby diminishes the company's long-term prospects).