Word: diminished
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...must disagree. Checking does not disrupt the game—it is part of the game. Allowing checking will not diminish the skill level of the game because checking is itself a skill...
...doesn't understand how Levine's habit of "praising (Sugihara) the first minute, putting him down the next" honors Sugihara's achievements. Levine, for his part, says he simply has a different philosophy of history. "As a historian, I took a critical stance," which he insists does not diminish Sugihara's bravery...
...would have published such a piece at all. The problem is that homophobia—of which Pappin’s letter is a particularly insidious example—is not being put on the same platform as racism, anti-Semitism or other equally disgusting forms of hate; to diminish it thus is both ignorant and incredibly dangerous, as the secret court of 1920 showed us in the first place...
...presence into a free speech issue. But retreating behind a laudable commitment to the First Amendment does not absolve those who showed such poor judgment in the first place of their responsibility to condemn his anti-Semitic statements. To divorce poetry from politics would be to diminish the power of all language. By the same measure, however, the bland reassurances of the English department provide little comfort. Its actions have already lent credibility and prestige to the indefensible, to the point of presenting anti-Semitism as one more “point of view” among many...
...onboard guidance system - like giant, rocket-powered artillery shells, they are simply pointed in the direction of their target and fired at an optimal angle based on their burn rate. As the Gulf War showed, targeting difficulties made the SCUD an ineffective military weapon, although such imperfections would not diminish its appeal to terrorists. (That said, terrorist groups are not typically in the habit of acquiring such heavy conventional weaponry, because they're difficult to hide and deploying them requires extensive manpower and training...