Examples of diminution

• The volume of sound, though not to any extent distorted, had suffered a diminution of perspective.

• Then the first half of the closing motif is subjected to progressive diminution.

• Overall, we see a diminution of women's identity as workers.

• This diminution in the scale is accompanied by an augmentation in the angular velocity according to the conservation of angular momentum.

• One profound change has been the diminution of the labour union movement.

• This was a period of growing national consciousness and a diminution of regional identities in his view.

• Diminution of one's cognitive or evaluative powers, and so on, is not the standard effect of offensive conduct.

• He covers a period of six hundred years with no diminution of information, or easy generalisations.

• His argument that internalization must occur in all possible cases, or suffer severe diminution of importance, is not persuasive.

• There is a drastic diminution of population size and a considerable proportionate increase in the older age groups.

• A diminution of the set of quotable pieces must, other factors held constant, lead to an expansion of citation density.

• There is little evidence that the proportion of the comparatively more employable underwent a notable diminution.

• Although it may be said that the diminution of libido in itself is a contraceptive force, to most men it is aesthetically and intellectually unacceptable.

• We use the term preferential solvation to describe the accumulation or diminution of components near or at the surface of the protein.

• If secularization does not necessarily imply rationality, then desecularization does not necessarily imply a diminution of rational thinking.