By contrast, regrettably, extremist violence has not diminished.

Despite globalization, the traditional role of the nation State has increased rather than diminished in importance.

That is to say that the amount of energy in the diet derived from fat has diminished.

As I diminished, I grew.

Although the frequency of overt military attacks against civilians has diminished greatly over the year, it has been replaced by intimidation and fear.

His sense of guilt was diminished.

For some, this role has diminished drastically and market forces have tended to overshadow the effectiveness of national policies.

Later, the attacks on the police diminished.

In many countries, demand for domestic products has diminished in favour of imported products, and competition has driven many SMEs out of business (Dhungana 2003).

Even though inflation has clearly diminished since 1990, prices remain high, inflation significant and per capita gross domestic product inadequate.

Even if security has improved and violence diminished, the overall lack of security still prevents many people from going home.

His income was diminished by half after retirement.

For example, the number of people who believe that preschool children suffer due to the fact that their mother is working has diminished.

The deterioration in their terms of trade since the early 1980s has diminished their capacity to obtain technology and other inputs from abroad.

The obsessive usage of the Jews by those opposing progress and democracy has not diminished in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.

37. The moderating function fulfilled by States in setting progressive taxation on wealth has been diminished by the adjustment processes of the last decade.

While large scale organized violence has substantially diminished, civilians continue to be subject to lawlessness and banditry, and women and girls continue to be raped.

Its ability to face emergencies had diminished, however, since the 1990s.

But its national governing body has undergone quot masculinization quot while in 1983, nearly half of the members were women, by 1993 their numbers had diminished.

31. However, in both developed and developing countries (as a group), the importance of commodities in terms of total trade has steadily diminished over the years.

Again, they are diminished and bowed down through oppression, trouble, and sorrow.

Again, they are diminished and bowed down through oppression, trouble, and sorrow.

Violence in Darfur has diminished greatly since the period from early 2003 to mid 2004, which was prior to Security Council decisions and the deployment of AMIS.

Parties produce ever longer pleadings and annexes the Court has more cases but it is required to operate on a diminished and wholly inadequate base of resources.

Scientists think now our magnetic field may be diminished by about five percent.

Technically speaking, to be decadent is to be weak, diminished in energy, sterile.

The security situation has also frayed the economic fabric of the region, with significantly reduced agricultural activities and livestock assets and diminished commercial exchange of goods and cattle.

The Treaty on the Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons,12 35 years old this month, has proved indispensable it has not only diminished nuclear peril but has also demonstrated the value of multilateral agreements in safeguarding international peace and security.

The most common explanation is the global economic slowdown, which has diminished demand for energy, minerals, and agricultural products. Indeed, growth has slowed and GDP forecasts have been revised downward since mid year in most countries.

13. During the cold war, external efforts to bolster or undermine African Governments were a familiar feature of super Power competition. With the end of the cold war, external intervention has diminished but has not disappeared.

False analogies with the past trivialize history. If the Israelis, or the Palestinians, are like Nazis, then the horror of what the real Nazis did has been greatly diminished.

Finally, whereas it was traditionally understood that armed conflict had a greater effect on bilateral treaties than on multilateral treaties, there is strong evidence that this distinction has diminished.

The fact that the physical protection afforded by humanitarian emblems has diminished in recent years serves only to underline the need for States to take concrete and urgent action.

A great Empire, like a great Cake, is most easily diminished at the Edges.

Poverty diminished the poor countries' capacity to cope with the effects of those disasters.

In 2001, the incidence of diphtheria was once again diminished to just 91 patients.

But the differences must be diminished, and the Millennium Development Goals must be achieved.

The unavoidable corollary is that peacekeeping cash has diminished and will continue to do so, more or less in step with any future decrease in the level of peacekeeping activities.

Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.

Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.

However, the Conference on Disarmament has so far not been able to agree on its programme of work, while the threat of outer space weaponization has not diminished, to put it mildly this is no secret to anyone.

Australia considered that electing countries like Zimbabwe to the Commission on Human Rights diminished its credibility.

23. What little territory remained was diminished further by forcible or coerced removal, relocation and allotment.

Transaction costs in international trade can be substantially diminished by an adequate use of information technologies

Moreover, the activities funded under EMLOT had gradually been phased out as need for them diminished.