Just as the dowels diminish in size from the top to the bottom of the piece, the purple acrylic is gradated in its application to each element. |
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It certainly can't be a barrel of laughs watching your portfolio gradually diminish in value. |
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With its coming it was expected that accidents on the route would diminish considerably. |
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Devotees claim that pain and disease diminish or disappear after just weeks of practice. |
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None of these concerns should diminish the importance and value of this volume. |
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But it is crucial it does not inadvertently cause problems that diminish its value. |
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Limited conversation does in no way diminish the truth or reality of the contact. |
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But they diminish their own credibility with a lot of stories you cannot believe. |
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There are some very expensive items which can actually diminish your credibility. |
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Knowing that there were moments such as these does nothing to diminish a sense of the enormity and horror of what went on. |
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If that is true, then gravity's forcefulness should diminish as the universe expands and diffuses its cosmic density. |
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Green lacewings, like ladybugs, diminish aphid and mealybug populations, as well as thrips. |
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Below the cervical enlargement, the dorsal rootlets, roots and ganglia diminish rapidly in size. |
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They meditate whether the virtues of the one will exalt or diminish the force of the other, or correct any of its nocent qualities. |
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Time will winnow the wheat from the chaff but it won't diminish the pleasure of Lane's reviews. |
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This is not to diminish the importance of the bravery of Britain's airmen, soldiers and seamen. |
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Some forms of this fungus cause wilt diseases that diminish yields of corn, cotton, tomatoes, and other crops. |
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No one on this campus wants to diminish the reality of the horrible experience of sexual assault. |
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This is expected to, I think, diminish in strength over the next few days, though the westward push probably won't be as significant. |
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Also, raking up and destroying dropped fruit will diminish these pests over time. |
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Public skepticism of schemes of this kind might diminish if the officials in charge didn't act like they were trying to put one over on us. |
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Yet he advises patients to bear with it because the depression will ultimately lift and sleep problems diminish. |
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Fortunately, they aren't serious enough to lower the film's broad-based appeal or to diminish its quotient of feel-good moments. |
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Be assured that my responses will in no way seek to diminish or ridicule contributors. |
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The light wavered unsteadily against the cold stone walls, threatening to diminish. |
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The original half watt of power will diminish to less than a billionth of a watt at the point of arrival. |
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Least I forget, he was slipping punches or rolling with the punches to diminish their impact. |
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I don't mean to diminish those other nominees, though I would question the worth of naming a school after a leftist city councilwoman. |
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A nation, he argues, can move toward democracy and, at the same time, diminish liberality generally and human rights particularly. |
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That would diminish the feeling of unresolvedness that made the first film so strong. |
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He thanked them each more than once, tears filling his baggy old eyes as he watched the crowd diminish and walk away. |
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It is a levy assessed in an unwritten manner and generally executed with precision in order to diminish the offender and enrich the supplier. |
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Lenses on cameras not only focus the image but they may magnify or diminish the apparent size of a scene. |
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The introduction of English words into the vernacular dialects will gradually diminish the distance between the scientific and popular language. |
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They have seen medications alleviate pain, cure infections, and diminish anxiety. |
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I'm watching the rope quickly diminish in length and wondering when he's going to get to the belay. |
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Airborne ash can diminish visibility, damage flight control systems and may cause engine failure. |
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Nobody has a right to use them in a way that will diminish or injure their use and enjoyment by others. |
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At its mildest, the consequence is vulgar language and rude behavior that diminish the quality of our day-to-day public interactions. |
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They diminish our humanity and, for that reason, they lessen our capacity for God. |
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Putin has the opportunity to put an end to a number of Russian oligarchs, or at least to radically diminish their pernicious political role. |
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The latter approach could help diminish the social stigma associated with the disabled in Russia, she said. |
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But that should not be to diminish a production that is as enjoyable as it is headily ambitious. |
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But will the Act diminish the fear of bankruptcy and lead to, in some cases, the cycle of personal debt restarting? |
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Automatic reactions will diminish over time as you become more aware of and responsive to them. |
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As people age, their cellular and humoral immunity generally diminish and T cell activity and immunoglobulins decrease. |
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Thus, their amplitudes diminish with distance more slowly than do those of body waves. |
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Capitalism and communism diminish the status of the individual, both as a citizen and as a human being. |
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President Chirac's team made pledges on reforms which could diminish the high level of overall structural unemployment. |
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But none of those truths should diminish the power of last weekend's stupendous events. |
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This does not diminish the lifetime achievements of a legendary lyricist, song stylist, or magnificent instrumentalist. |
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In his opinion, that doesn't diminish the legitimacy or relevancy of this complaint. |
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Tough times did not diminish their idealism but made them even more determined that to transform lives you have to transform society. |
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Does the fact that Aristotle was a slave-owner who judged the sun to move round the earth diminish the genius of his poetic theory? |
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Well, a few things may have been missed, but that sort of thing happens, and it doesn't diminish one bit the superbness of the work done. |
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Somehow the sight of five very masculine black men in heavy pancake did not diminish the fact that this was still a guys' movie. |
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We can live with either, but this kind of shilly-shallying only serves to destabilize the industry and diminish the game. |
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These missteps are unfortunate rather than fatal, although they do diminish the credibility of the argument. |
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The general conclusion is that there are a number of perceptual abilities that diminish with age. |
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However there are always ifs and buts, and if anyone supposes I am trying to diminish Malcolm's win by making excuses, they are wrong. |
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I must say Amsterdam is a great place, but my life expectancy would spectacularly diminish if I stayed there. |
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This didactic function tended to diminish many characteristics of individual style. |
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Calling him merely a compiler is to diminish the importance of his engagement with the issues. |
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This fenestration appears to ameliorate the postoperative course and diminish the incidence of postoperative effusions. |
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This's a sophisticated and fun album, and there's not a genre or pigeonhole anywhere that can diminish its originality and life-loving energy. |
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We diminish ourselves if we allow the atrocities committed by others to turn us into inhuman people capable of similar evil. |
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It doesn't diminish the summit of breathtaking Ben Nevis that you can see the pinprick of a Safeway and McDonald's from the top. |
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That most Canadians do not follow hockey in any serious way does not diminish its role as a key cultural symbol. |
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Oftentimes, irritability and temper outbursts diminish when a mood disorder is treated. |
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If you don't want to diminish the Christmas morning surprise, wrap stocking stuffers in plain white or silver paper before tucking them inside. |
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Societies are formed to resist evils that are exclusively of a moral nature, as to diminish the vice of intemperance. |
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Impressively, this analytical procedure does nothing to diminish the vitality and playfulness evidenced by the singing colors of his paintings. |
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It should gradually diminish as the body returns to balance over a few months of treatment. |
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As maturity approaches, the leaves begin to diminish in size, flowering occurs and the cormlets reach maximum size for the season. |
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Such a cosmogonic extravagance appeared to diminish the magnificence of the created order in our own world. |
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The wrongful acts of a previous possessor do not therefore diminish the plaintiff's claim in respect of the wrongful acts of a later possessor. |
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Weinberger calls this grass-roots approach to organization folksonomy and predicts that it will diminish the role of experts. |
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Atherosclerosis can also diminish blood flow to other vital organs, including your intestines or kidneys. |
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It is known that insects both of a creophagous and saprophagous nature, gradually diminish in relative numbers from the poles to the equator. |
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But the Ascension is not to be conflated with the Resurrection, and to celebrate the former is not in any way to diminish the latter. |
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It need not diminish our respect for him because he was kept dangling two years in England by suggestions of another appointment. |
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Hurricanes on the Gulf Coast have disrupted gas pipelines and refineries, causing supplies to diminish and costs to increase. |
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This program will not diminish the role of the local physician who provides primary health care for the child. |
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No puerile, childish criticisms will diminish their importance, nor minimise their influence on our national psyche. |
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Chances are the pain will diminish as your musculature recovers. |
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Hendley held out hope the rest of the night that the Cubs might scratch out a run, but saw those hopes diminish rapidly as Koufax got stronger and stronger. |
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By curtailing the autonomy of the self-determining individual, authoritarian public health policies infantilise society, weaken democracy and diminish humanity. |
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The intrusion of adults in children's play can abolish or diminish this process of acting above one's age and acquiring self-mastery of one's own actions. |
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Over the next two days her confusion continued to diminish and she again returned to her baseline sensorium of completely intact cognitive function. |
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As scale decreases, viscous forces inhibit separation with the consequence that the additional lift must diminish and, at some unknown Re, disappear. |
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Relying on China as a lender will reduce our freedom of movement, harm our values, and diminish the country. |
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They diminish women by imagining them in a variety of uniforms from the very worst top-shelf publications because they know it's a foolproof way to put them in their place. |
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The package was completed by a set of training wheels, to help diminish his understandable fear of falling off that had scuppered our previous attempts. |
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The Age of Shakespeare is a Hilliard miniature among the full-length portraits that Frank Kermode has drawn, but that does not diminish its value. |
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But that doesn't diminish its status as an ultimate in technology. |
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Without intending to diminish the absurdity of such view or their genocidal implications, it must be mentioned that extremist nationalisms tend to flourish together. |
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He perceives them as vital coalition allies and therefore does not support any electoral reform that will diminish their power. |
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Which of your five senses tends to diminish as you get older? |
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We've considered mergers to the extent that they reduce our burn rate, diminish our overhead, and create further synergies for our business model. |
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To define success on the sporting field as something that can essentially be bought is to diminish the Herculean efforts of those who compete as our representatives. |
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This can lead to overtraining, which can halt or even diminish your gains. |
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But that does not diminish its status as classically Bergmanesque. |
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His powers of observation did not diminish in his drawings for the Farnese Gallery, which have been described as hyper idealized, classicizing works. |
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The rosebuds known as taifi to the locals are plucked when they have just opened up and before the sun's rays diminish the oils, which contain the essence of their perfume. |
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That this belt is on a pair of inside-out jeans makes him especially pathetic, but somehow it doesn't diminish one's respect for his intelligence. |
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None of which is meant to diminish the achievements of the two finalists. |
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His thick tweed jacket makes us suspect that he finds England colder than his home in Provence, but the coolness of the weather does not diminish his natural warmth. |
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It is a good read, and although I should have seen the final plot twist approaching from a country mile away, it doesn't really diminish the story if you do guess it. |
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But this does not diminish the fact that living with a Very Boy-like Boy has added a whole assortment of new potty-mouthed phrases to my obviously deprived vocabulary. |
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The great criminal and the humorist compel our interest by the narcissistic self-importance with which they manage to keep at arm's length everything which would diminish the importance of their ego. |
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Society doesn't create these disorders, but it can amplify them, and by extension, it can diminish them. |
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Playing for a weak team did not diminish what Ramsey accomplished. |
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The balance of the argument now says that Betfair operates in a way that not only does not diminish the integrity of racing but actually enhances it. |
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The forthcoming advancements in battery technology, charging stations and electric vehicles are likely to diminish range anxiety among EV drivers. |
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And yet that does not diminish the responsibilities you have to be better than those you oppose. |
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We refuse to mislead our readers, and diminish the endeavors of our top athletes, by showcasing anabolic steroids as the number-one way to get big. |
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Any leak of critical information could hamper the investigation and diminish the element of surprise they want to achieve when pinning down a suspect, he added. |
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For successful implementation over time, the core team necessarily must expand, yet excessive rotation of new members early on may diminish success. |
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If the fruit diminish as the requisition increases, or augment as that decreases, they, who are skilled in accounts, consider the rule of three to be inverted. |
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Anticipating actual legal reform, the development of cannabis beverages, lozenges, skin patches or other forms of delivery could be encouraged to diminish pulmonary hazards. |
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Google is worried the same effect will diminish their brand-ownership as it follows a path laid out by Kleenex, Saran Wrap and all those other all too popular brands. |
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That oil would diminish US dependence on Saudi energy exports. |
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Although I feed as sparingly as possible, their numbers continue to diminish. |
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When we talk lovelessly, we somehow diminish not just rationality but our very humanity. |
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Walking along the highway did nothing to diminish activity in the subgenual prefrontal cortex. |
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The following remarks are not meant to diminish the value of this editio princeps of these tablets. |
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Fusion reactors, which are still in the early stages of development, diminish or eliminate some of the risks associated with nuclear fission. |
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The principle of supply and demand holds that as hydrocarbon supplies diminish, prices will rise. |
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Many locals, merchant and noble alike, envied the power of the league and tried to diminish it. |
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There are a variety of climate change feedbacks that can either amplify or diminish the initial forcing. |
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German attacks began to diminish on 3 November, by when armeegruppe von Fabeck had lost 17,250 casualties. |
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As fossil fuel resources diminish, increasing attention is being paid to trees as sources of energy. |
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These bodies have strong gravitational fields that diminish with distance and act to alter the shape of an equipotential surface on the Earth. |
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The dipole component of Earth's field can diminish even while the total magnetic field remains the same or increases. |
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In areas with wet and dry seasons, soil nutrients diminish and erosion increases during the wet season. |
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To diminish the odium the king insisted that if Snorri had submitted he would have been spared. |
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With the rise of the Khazars' state in the east, the invasions began to diminish and it was possible to create larger states. |
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To outdress another woman is to diminish her on the public stage. |
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The clandestine discharge of sewage and the consequent proliferation of algae diminish the oxygenation of the waters, causing fish mortality. |
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In the mountain region, rain is frequent in summer, and temperature and humidity diminish with altitude up to the frozen peaks of the Andes. |
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Negotiation does not diminish one's honor, and peace treaties do not cause loss of rights. |
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For patients prone to retropulsion, wearing shoes with high heels may diminish or prevent the backward stepping. |
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Nothing in this Act shall diminish or qualify the existing rights and privileges of the House of Commons. |
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This gradually began to diminish the numerical dominance of hereditary peers. |
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As to the proportion in which those forces diminish by an increase of distance, I own I have not discovered it. |
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And now those varieties of viewpoints could diminish further. |
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Above Langney Sands, the river abruptly narrows to a hundred yards, the sands diminish and the channel occupies the whole of the river. |
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As the role of universities in institutionalized science began to diminish, learned societies became the cornerstone of organized science. |
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He saw the EEC as a continental arrangement primarily between France and Germany, and if Britain joined, France's role would diminish. |
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I have never tried to diminish the appalling things that happened in Russia, though the sheer extent of the massacres we didn't realise. |
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If people are upminded about future possibilities, present tragedies diminish in psychological consequence. |
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He exploited a physique that most would try desperately to diminish. |
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Does government enhance or diminish the safety of the governed? |
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In order to improve the motor functions or to diminish the symptoms of the disease, the orthesis are used for quite a long time by now. |
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This continued until after World War II, when the importance of Belgian steel, coal and industry began to diminish. |
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The number of exploitations tends to diminish, but as a result, they are merged into very large estates. |
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After some time, this will reduce land above sea level and thus diminish the amount of space on which ice sheets can form. |
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The main application of isolators is to diminish the amplitude of the buildings vibration during an earthquake. |
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You are taking a street child for granted and trying to diminish his dignity. |
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Although it helps to know something of the traditional tales, a lack of intertextual understanding will not diminish the reading enjoyment. |
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But that did not diminish the intensity of the debate over partial-birth abortion, known medically as intact dilation and extraction. |
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This example is used to demonstrate that the performance of the algorithm need not diminish significantly when a mesh partitioner is used to decompose the mesh. |
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Westwards the hills diminish toward the coastal plain of Cumberland. |
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Walpole's taste for adventure did not diminish in his last years. |
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In order to diminish the religious significance of the place, the British systematically referred to Salman Pak by its classical Sassanid name, Ctesiphon. |
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Today, with the advent of pharmacologic agents which effectively diminish drug or alcohol craving, the prospect for successful treatment programming is quite noteworthy. |
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When the Tudor dynasty ascended to the English throne in 1485, tensions between the Welsh and English began to diminish and castles were considered less important. |
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Charles Taylor accuses Popper of exploiting his worldwide fame as an epistemologist to diminish the importance of philosophers of the 20th century continental tradition. |
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The demise of native cultural institutions in the seventeenth century saw the social prestige of Irish diminish, and the gradual Anglicisation of the middle classes followed. |
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This did little to diminish the status of the Darnley urn as the most important icon in cricket, the symbol of this old and keenly fought contest. |
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Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you. |
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Without annealing, the quality of our metal products will diminish. |
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Insurers and those who represent them spy on victims in the hope of providing evidence which will help to diminish damages awardable, and this practice is growing. |
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Before being admitted to our hospital, the patient had been administered oral antibiotics, but his complaints did not diminish after the antibiotic treatment. |
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This comment is not intended to diminish the Burgweinting church but rather to provide a frame of reference which brings some telling differences to the fore. |
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Although some disliked these measures, coordinated efforts against smallpox went on, and the disease continued to diminish in the wealthy countries. |
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Average temperatures and temperature ranges increase further inland from the cold Atlantic waters, while the lingering coastal fogs slowly diminish. |
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