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

As I diminished, I grew.

His sense of guilt was diminished.

As to the State party's argument that mental illness cannot be equated to a lack of legal capacity , the Committee considers that confinement of an individual to a psychiatric institution amounts to an acknowledgement of that individual's diminished capacity, legal and otherwise.

Later, the attacks on the police diminished.

His income was diminished by half after retirement.

By contrast, regrettably, extremist violence has not diminished.

Moreover, the capacity of Mexico s security machinery appears diminished. The police are at best useless and at worst outright employees of the drug lords the army is less tainted, but unprepared for the role.

In accordance with the Law on the Family, the Social Work Center is obliged to undertake measures of protection whenever the victim of domestic violence is a minor or a person with diminished legal capacity.

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

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

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

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

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

Earlier this year, the Congressional Budget Office warned that the potential US growth rate has declined as a result of years of subpar investment rates, the aging of the population, and smaller productivity gains. Every year of below capacity growth means lower growth capacity in the future, owing to lost investment, erosion of worker skills and experience, and diminished risk taking.

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.

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

Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished.'

And do not give the people their goods diminished, and do not roam the earth causing turmoil.

And do not give the people their goods diminished, and do not roam the earth causing turmoil.

Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished.'

Conversely, land degradation, desertification, pollution and unequal access to water and productive ecosystems diminished human well being.

It considers that as the author suffered from diminished capacity that might have affected her ability to take part effectively in the proceedings herself, the court should have been in a position to ensure that she was assisted or represented in a way sufficient to safeguard her rights throughout the proceedings.

Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it yet not ought of your work shall be diminished.

Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it yet not ought of your work shall be diminished.

During the early days of the Arab Spring protests, the UN, led by Secretary General Ban Ki moon, spoke out forcefully for human rights and democracy. But the UN s capacity to ensure desirable outcomes is limited while the hope that drove the Arab Spring may not be depleted, it has clearly diminished significantly.

So if we did not have bees, it's not like we would starve, but clearly our diet would be diminished.

I repeat that we cannot be satisfied with a three tiered Security Council or make do with diminished permanent seats.

And most of them are still going to be there, although the scale of them is probably going to be diminished.

The negative impact of the arms markets in Somalia and the front line States should be neutralized or significantly diminished by

Global events in the recent past have reinforced, rather than diminished, our support for the principles enshrined in the Rome Statute.

In the Middle East alone, the US has overstretched its capabilities in two controversial wars repeatedly failed to broker a peace between Israel and Palestine estranged key regional powers and performed disappointingly on issues like Iran s nuclear program and Syria s civil war. All of this has diminished its capacity to shape the region s future.

The rivers will become foul. The streams of Egypt will be diminished and dried up. The reeds and flags will wither away.

The rivers will become foul. The streams of Egypt will be diminished and dried up. The reeds and flags will wither away.

This translates into about 900 billion of foregone goods and services this year alone a tremendous waste reflected in an unemployment rate of 7.9 and a poverty rate of 15 , significantly higher than the average of the past 30 years. And the waste accumulates over time the longer the economy operates far below its capacity, the slower the growth in its future capacity as a result of diminished risk taking, foregone investment, and erosion of the skills base.

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

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

During October, the number of internally displaced persons diminished slightly to 1.75 million as a result of new registrations and some small scale returns.

The gaps between men and women in Civil Service's internal job tenders participation, both as candidates and appointees, have diminished in the past four years.

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.

Since 1990 the differences between men and women have diminished in 1990 the hourly wage of women was 73 of the hourly wage of men.

The pernicious hatred of the Jew as an individual, of Judaism as a religion, and of the Jewish people as a nation had not diminished.

Diminished biodiversity, due to habitat encroachment, fragmentation and pesticide misuse, also leads farmers to rely on greenhouse gas generating chemical inputs to increase their yields.

The new legislation provides a variety of tools and protections for people who have diminished capability to make their own decisions (e.g. financial, personal, health care).