His audience did indeed grow, but his standing in the jazz world diminished.
When first interviewed in mid-July, Ms. Aliminosa and Ms. Arnold felt vulnerable and constrained, their world diminished.
The UK is likely to be shattered, our place in the world diminished and our people poorer.
But that plan fell apart, as a long-drawn writers strike in 2007 and a subsequent collapse in the financial world diminished fundraising prospects.
After the last seven years of having our country's reputation in the world diminished by the present administration, I feel that this weekend the world was shown what democracy in action is.
On the other hand, the internet allows endless new ways for a newspaper to reflect and examine the world, diminishing the barriers between producers (the writers) and consumers (the readers) to mutual enlightenment.
Six years later we find many government agencies wrecked, our treasury gutted, our country's moral stature in the world diminished, our national security threatened, more than 2,400 American service members' lives needlessly lost in Iraq and many thousands more disabled for a lifetime by that foolish war.
There were exceptions, such as "Beyond the Bridge" and "The Dream"; and in this latest book, marked as it is with what she calls "the sadness of witnessing his decline into frailty", she yet triumphs over Redgrove's sickness and death, finding an idiom and a rhythm of her own with which to face a world diminished and darkened.
Every autumn across the world, diminishing daylight hours and falling temperatures induce trees to shed leaves in billions of tons.
It could still be derailed and its lessons for the rest of the world diminished if South Africans ignore the commission's recommendations for reparations and against blanket amnesty.
