Many studies, if not all, report that the atrophic process is associated with significant reductions in strength, which indicates that muscular atrophy is associated with the diminished force production capacity of unloaded muscles.
The following February, however, Taylor disobeyed these orders and with his diminished force marched south and, in the Battle of Buena Vista, won a brilliant victory over a Mexican army that outnumbered his troops by about four to one.
In comparison to control samples tested under static conditions (i.e. without fatigue), the study indicated that fatigue loading, resulted in a significant increase of samples stiffness with a diminished force at break.
With regional papers a greatly diminished force, the sense of disenfranchisement and even a democratic deficit outside the capital is real and understandable.
As the department faces the impending possibility of a federal takeover — the result of several missed deadlines in a nine-year court-ordered reform effort — showdowns with protesters have consumed the diminished force, leaving crime scenes and emergency calls unattended, protesters and agitators emboldened and a federal judge increasingly exasperated.
Skeletal muscle of mdx mice of similar age to the ones used in this study have been shown to contain extensive fibrosis and degenerative myocytes with diminished muscle force production [ 17, 37, 38].
Now it is a diminished force, resenting its neighbour and no longer the EU's playmaker.
Social conservatives are a diminished force.
With Diefenbaker in opposition (and unlikely to resurrect the coalition in Quebec that gave him his majority in 1958) and Social Credit a diminished force, Lewis returned to the House of Commons in the 1965 general election.
Impaired thin filament length, in return, results in reduced contractile strength and diminished force generation.
