The Second World War diminished Britain as a major imperial power.
The Second World War diminished ethnic rivalries among white Americans and, with them, the tribal allotments of urban neighborhoods, but that process was accelerated by the fact that those areas were already becoming less appealing.
In the face of his failing Blitzkrieg tactics, Hitler's confidence in a successful and swift conclusion of the war diminished, especially with a US-supported Britain being a constant threat in the Reich's western front.
War diminishes everyone and all states, even the victors, and that is especially true if the war is characterized by broken promises and dashed hopes, perceptions of betrayal, and disappointment in an ally.
If the election goes well and the prospect of a civil war diminishes, the U.S. troops and the administration would get credit for helping the Afghan people.
Remnick's tenure already includes similar glaring lapses in judgment, most prominently (and with infinitely more at stake of course) when he threw the moral weight of the magazine behind George W. Bush's Iraq War, diminishing that moral weight considerably in the process.
British interest in the maritime fur trade peaked between 1785 and 1794, then declined as the French Revolutionary Wars diminished Britain's available manpower and investment capital.
After 1879, with the threat from the Indian wars diminished on the plains of Montana, stock ranches and open range cattle ranching moved east into Central and Eastern Montana.
But, just as the unexpected end of the Cold War radically diminished the threat of global nuclear war, so the astonishing success of the family planning movement has defused the exponential increases in global population... What we overlooked was the contraceptive revolution... Tells about the falling birth rates in such 3rd world countries as Bangladesh and Kenya, as well as Latin America.
But, just as the unexpected end of the Cold War radically diminished the threat of global nuclear war, so the astonishing success of the family planning movement has defused the exponential increases in global population... What we overlooked was the contraceptive revolution... Tells about the falling birth rates in such 3rd world countries as Bangladesh and Kenya, as well as Latin America..
Along the Western front these began quite early after the war and continued for several decades, dropping in number in the mid-1920s, when interest in the war temporarily diminished, and again in the Depression years of the early 1930s.
