Word: diminisher
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...there is nothing wrong with working in banking and finance. Simply because the social utility of these fields is more difficult to explain or comprehend does in no way diminish their contribution to the public good...
However, Gray Sexton's story speaks for itself. On the whole, the uneven tone does little to diminish the book's message of forgiveness and survival. The memoirs competently address so many of the relevant issues of family relationships and the horrors of mental illness and abuse. What could have easily been dismissed as yet another tell-all expose by a spiteful relative is instead...
...silence: the orchestra simply played--preferably loudly at first--to quiet the crowd. It is partly for this reason that most symphonies from the classical begin with a forte. When Haitink took the stage, the noise from the crowd of the elderly and well-to-do did not diminish. Thus, he dove straight into the cataclysmic opening bars of Brahms to silence the audience...
...sacrifice themselves for what they believed in," says American photojournalist James Nachtwey, who frequently worked with Carter and his friends. By 1990, civil war was raging between Mandela's A.N.C. and the Zulu-supported Inkatha Freedom Party. For whites, it became potentially fatal to work the townships alone. To diminish the dangers, Carter hooked up with three friends -- Ken Oosterbroek of the Star and free-lancers Greg Marinovich and Joao Silva -- and they began moving through Soweto and Tokoza at dawn. If a murderous gang was going to shoot up a bus, throw someone off a train...
Though the U.S. steps are designed to rob Castro of a safety vent to defuse unrest in his country, the number of Cubans taking to the sea did not immediately diminish in the wake of Clinton's pronouncements. On Friday, about 575 refugees arrived; Saturday brought another 861. Moreover, the President's stiffened economic sanctions will only increase the tensions that send Cubans dashing toward the beaches in the first place. At the same time, Castro's castaways must now swallow a humiliating demotion in status. The waning of superpower rivalry has weakened Cubans' claims to being fugitives from political...