Word: diminished
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...said it openly, I said at a party conference that I would not have him succeed me because it would be bad for him, bad for the country, and bad for me. He would be seen to have got there by my influence. That would diminish him, reduce his ability to govern. In several elections we won by the largest majority of votes. I have lived a full life and do not need to live vicariously...
...calls for a new strategy. The most recent initiative to establish ties with several black student groups, for example, will not get off the ground if the IOP continues to assert full control over its old “identity.” Fulfilling such a role need not diminish the IOP’s own priorities and programs; it would merely expand its range...
That's hard to say. The insurgents have been able to feed off the dislike most Iraqis have for the occupation. "The slow withdrawal of U.S. forces should eat away an important part of the insurgents' support base" and diminish their strength, predicts Seth Jones, an Iraq analyst at the Rand Corp. who advises the Pentagon. Many Sunni Arabs who boycotted Iraq's elections last January appear genuinely interested in participating in the Dec. 15 vote, while Iraqi nationalists and former regime members active in the insurgency are signaling an interest in forming political parties rather than in continuing armed...
...lighting is favorable, and the camera still. According to Senf, who is also a graduate student in art history at Boston University, Adams helped make straight photography become the standard for art photography today.Oceans of ink have and will be spilled about whether that straightness and literalness should diminish Adams’ claim to be the greatest American photographer. Yet Adams remains the quintessential American photographer because he took photography’s power of honest reproduction to the places where it’s needed most: the pristine, and threatened, wilderness. Wilderness, after all, has been...
...author sullies his work by crossing the line from fact into fiction. In an interview, Wright said that his occasional fictionalization “doesn’t corrupt the material in any way I see.” And ultimately, our knowledge of this historical episode does not diminish because we read that Kenneth B. Day, Class of 1922, “squirmed uncomfortably” as he sat before the court—even though he might have sat still.But Wright’s fictionalizations leave at least this reader squirming. At the Coop Tuesday night, when...