This isn't to diminish tennis's history as a game with etiquette, and a respect for silence.
With Somalia in ruins the lure of piracy is unlikely to diminish anytime soon.
The number and severity of cyber incidents is not likely to diminish in the near future.
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Obama's first challenge in the third hundred days must be to diminish problem number one.
Indeed, the pressure for radical reform is likely to diminish as Europe lurches out of recession.
So I don't want to diminish some of the accomplishments that occurred during those eight years.
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"BP knows there is nothing we can say to diminish their loss, " he said.
Hamilton wasn't trying to diminish the magnitude of Armstrong's life of deceit, or his own.
That latter factor does little to diminish a narrative about Romney's difficulty in connecting with voters.
But he has done nothing to diminish his party's reputation for cynical largesse with taxpayers' money.
As it is, the wet bias tends to diminish naturally in the colder months, Dr. Neilley said.
Do you believe, or at least hope, that holding these elections will help to diminish violence in Haiti?
Now running for New York governor, so expect to see his office's output on headline-grabbing probes to diminish.
The British tried to diminish the commission when they contrived a deliberately weak president for it, Mr Santer.
Ms Hall said the charity's ultimate aim was to diminish demand for battery eggs and promote welfare-friendly systems.
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This caused the insurgency to diminish: it claimed some 540 lives in 2008 compared with 4, 500 in 2001.
The retail demand for gold through listed securities is already beginning to diminish.
Finally, many investments are so laden with fees and expenses as to diminish their returns without dampening their volatility.
The event cancellations are likely intended to diminish the risk of future catastrophic injuries during live X Games programming.
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The attractiveness of cash is now frustrating policy makers, but they have been unable to diminish its popularity.
If their popularity dies, the brand either has to diminish the affiliation or follow the fate of the celebrity.
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One underexamined aspect of defensive medicine is those excessive referrals to diminish responsibility.
Qualms about first-person perspective have begun to diminish, and the new Study in Stealth gameplay video (below) looks terrific.
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The law says its aim is to diminish, eliminate or prevent excessive speculation.
In addition, other factors may combine to diminish the improvements in productivity you might have supposed the Internet would cause.
And this is not to diminish the excitement (pleasure?) any student of human behavior should have concerning explorations of brain-behavior relationships.
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I've always had great faith in and respect for our space program, and what happened today does nothing to diminish it.
To diminish that prospect, senior members should give priority to regional investment, closer links among Southeast Asian companies and economic integration.
They regarded themselves as "equal to men" but their opportunities seemed to diminish once they reached a certain age, she said.
Long ago, Merck surrendered its top status among pharmaceutical concerns, and drug patent expirations have been threatening to diminish Merck further.
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