Sentence examples for were being diminished from inspiring English sources

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Mr. Zinman seems to have felt that his own achievements were being diminished -- "the moment I left, there was no more contemporary music," he said -- and in protest he resigned the position he had retained as the orchestra's conductor emeritus.

"Some of the sadness of Malory's account," Ackroyd notes, "may spring from the fact that he is celebrating a code of chivalry and courtly love at the very time they were being diminished".

This was exemplified by the recent campaigns against a perceived leftwing bias in the Hugo awards, in which disgruntled rightwing science fiction and fantasy writers argued the awards were being diminished by what they saw as the tendency of voters to prefer works "merely about racial prejudice and exploitation" and the like over traditional swashbuckling adventures.

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Every day, certain hopes are being fulfilled, while others are being diminished.

Above all, McCain is painfully aware that he is being diminished by his own campaign.

"I do think Australia's reputation is being diminished as a result".

"Newspapers are the core of regional journalism in America and that core is being diminished rapidly," he said.

It argued that the labour movement was heading for serious trouble as the industrial proletariat was being diminished and divided.

The summer months are the boom time for letting: "All the one-bed stock is being diminished.

Edwards rejects the perception that Chrebet's role is being diminished, and the numbers support the coach.

It seems paradoxical that in an atmosphere where the arts are often demeaned as elitist, what is being diminished in New York is free Shakespeare in the park.

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