It also is issuing health alerts to hospital delivery wards to diminish the risk of death in childbirth due to hemorrhage, which is more likely among obese moms.

VOA: standard.2010.06.23

You'll be biased to put extra weight on the cases that support your theory and diminish cases that refute it.

你的偏向令你更注重于,那些证明你的看法的个案上,而无视驳倒你的看法的个案。

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"From dust we have come, to dust we shall return. In no way would this diminish all those very important human dimensions to the experience of death.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

"Heart failure really begins to increase over the age of 60 when the chances of heart transplantation diminish, so this is going to be a major therapeutic option for a great many patients in the future,"

VOA: standard.2010.01.27