Sentence examples for this diminution from inspiring English sources
You can see this diminution in the language TEEB reports use: they talk of "natural capital stock", of "underperforming natural assets" and "ecosystem services".
They attribute much of the slowing of consumer spending to this diminution of the wealth effect through the spring and early summer.
Yet the implications of this diminution go well beyond the loss of expensive kit, such as fighter jets, or historic regiments.
I think the key to whether we can accomplish this diminution of international terrorism is: stay the course, keep focused on what our primary objective is -- the elimination of international terrorism.
Despite this diminution of what is called in the industry "product," there remain over three thousand movie directors in the Directors Guild of America, and every year the film schools N.Y.U., U.S.C., U.C.L.A., A.F.I., and others graduate many more.
Perhaps, as Justice Alito notes, some people may find the "tradeoff" of privacy for convenience "worthwhile," or come to accept this "diminution of privacy" as "inevitable," and perhaps not.
This gradual diminution in size continues for the rest of the individual's life.
This conscious diminution of Cheney makes the power struggle in that White House all the more apparent.
This literal diminution of his stature can reduce his metaphorical stature, too.
Koch endeavors to transcend this literary diminution by making Paul's personality the ultimate focus of the book.
This small diminution, apparently, is down to the fact that she took a somewhat protracted maternity leave; protracted because, having astounded everyone by getting married, she then had not one baby but two, in unseemly proximity to one another, and has been mothering away like billy-ho in the wilds of Shropshire since.
