By contrast, regrettably, extremist violence has not 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Although the frequency of overt military attacks against civilians has diminished greatly over the year, it has been replaced by intimidation and fear.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.

Later, the attacks on the police diminished.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

But manufacturing today is not what it used to be. It has become much more capital and skill intensive, with greatly diminished potential to absorb large amounts of labor from the countryside.

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.

But, while Europe s defenses have been considerably strengthened, the threat of terrorism has not diminished. The risk of new attacks in Europe and worldwide is serious and will remain so for the foreseeable future.

In the final analysis, the main lesson learned over the past five years has been that violence and terrorism have diminished the prospects for peaceful coexistence between two States and have not enhanced them.

Although the purchase of hard copies of books and periodicals has diminished owing to budget constraints, the Library continues to maintain a multilingual collection, including publications on peace and security and development related issues.

The education system does not open prospects for a better future in Haiti the percentage of children having completed primary school has diminished from 45.5 per cent in 1990 to 35.5 per cent in 2002.

If France has again become a regional gendarme by default, it is largely for three reasons. American enthusiasm for intervention in Africa has greatly diminished since the operation in Somalia in 1992 1993 and more globally following the long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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.

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.

But these reforms have been rolled back recently, with independent regulatory authorities again coming under the control of government ministries (though it seems that the central bank has retained much of its autonomy). As the perception of non partisanship in public administration has diminished, proximity to those in power has become another source of tension.

But from 1991 through the present time, emphasized by the attacks of 2001, the idea of an all out nuclear war has diminished and the idea of a single event, act of nuclear terrorism is what we have instead.

The second problem is that the sheer weight of the US in international affairs, though diminished nowadays, has nonetheless led to a corruption of the principles that should underpin a new climate change treaty to succeed the Kyoto Protocol.

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.