Sentences with word «diminishment»

I suspect we are still paying for the abrupt pace of the Civil War, this time with another form of diminishment of black Americans.

Persons respond to the experience of diminishment in a variety of ways.

MFTs can experience diminishment of professional opportunities in the form of grant applications (privately and publicly)

County Government now operates with its smallest workforce in 32 years without diminishment of core services such as law enforcement, mental health, and road repair.

Insurance reform, not further diminishment of injured workers» rights, is the key to reducing employers» workers» comp costs.

It is indeed a tyranny, for viewing leisure with a basic work orientation results in an unfortunate diminishment of the leisure experience.

Out of her own experience of diminishment by males, she unflinchingly wrote of «castrating God» and «cutting away the Supreme Phallus» 6 as an important part of the process of transforming the collective imagination.

Nevertheless, the indirect effects of the development of AI are likely to impact on legal services for those on low incomes in various indirect ways — through, for example, a potential reduction in the number of commercial lawyers and a consequent diminishment in the pro bono assistance which is obtainable from their sector of the profession.

The paper in Nature Climate Change, «Temperature and vegetation seasonality diminishment over northern lands,» pulls together a wide array of research, including the work by Bruce Forbes of the University of Lapland last year, on what I called «pop - up forests» — patches of rapidly - growing tundra shrubs.

Temperature and vegetation seasonality diminishment over northern lands.

But these writers are mistaken in their implicit or explicit diminishment of the value of homeownership.

In a trust economy where honored relationships form the basis for developing and maintaining business, treating communication as a perfunctory exercise will only result in a gratuitous diminishment of credibility.

Bartholomew does not directly engage many contemporary Christian place - skeptics» those who agree, for example, with Michael Novak that whatever diminishment of place it may cause, globalization has made these «the best of times for those committed to solidarity.»

There seems to be a serious diminishment here.

There are those who would point to the facts of physical and psychological diminishment in the later years of life.

During Orvil's last few years, people would come to the town board with suggestions to name this after him or name that after him, and we accepted those statements respectfully, but we recognized that until one's passage, one's contribution and one's record is still open either for future accomplishment or potential diminishment.»

«We do not believe the senators in the main conference support their continued diminishment and they have made it clear that they want to unify.

Recent research reveals that there has been a 9 percent decline in primary productivity in the North Pacific Ocean, 7 percent in the North Atlantic, and about 6 percent diminishment worldwide.

The author focuses her attention and dismay on the relentless growth in the commercialization of education and scholarship within universities, the resultant diminishment of the intellectual commons, and the elimination or blurring of the boundaries that separate the distinct values and virtues of academic life from those of the commercial sector.

Tumors exposed to LIGHT showed an influx of T - cells that resulted in rapid and sustained diminishment in size, even after expression of the cytokine stopped.

Here it's Philadelphia high school science teacher Elliot Moore (Mark Wahlberg), who lectures his class on the puzzling recent diminishment of the honeybee population.

Lonely and unbeknownst to most ill with a condition that causes a slow diminishment of his faculties he strikes up a friendship with his handsome gardener, ex-Marine Clay Boone (Brendan Fraser).

«It represents a significant diminishment of the amount of testing.»

But Majerus's submission to his American references is undercut by the paradoxical status of the tiled painting installation as both an assertion of the primacy of network commodification and a restatement of Kippenberger's constellating of painterly modes as a satire on the postmodern diminishment of the intrinsic value of any single artistic position.

The main choices seem to be 1) invest them in alternatives; 2) reduce other taxes making them revenue neutral; 3) rebate on a per capita basis (since all of us suffer diminishment of our environment on an equal basis).

Old forest logging, biofuel and other industrial plantations, urban sprawl, climate change, water diversion and countless other methodical diminishments of intact natural ecosystems are to blame.

The history of agriculture and all it entails is the history of Earth's ecological diminishment.

Under this previously non-analogue scenario, enhanced drought - prone conditions would be interspersed with flood - prone ones against a background of overall water resource diminishment.

And that created an unbelievable diminishment of reef health that was — that's actually been sort of not noticed.

Damages may include medical bills, pain and suffering, rehabilitation expenses, loss of wages and an overall diminishment in the quality of life.

And to then have that name be associated with the Apu of the convenience store, of course, is such a huge diminishment,» Vogue film and TV critic John Powers tells Kondabolu in the film.

With infamous political memes, personal gripes, and controversial thoughts being unloaded and widespread on social media today, we are putting ourselves in jeopardy of job loss and professional image diminishment.

But primary focus on the emotional aspect of the couple's problems to the exclusion, or even diminishment, of the activist role means that the ADHD behaviors will typically change little.

We owe our neighbors our best efforts to prevent further diminishments of the common good.

Within this model, an unfortunate diminishment of the play experience occurs.

But diminishment by special treatment is only quantitatively less injurious than old - style inhumanity.

To be sure, he was no more exempt than the rest of us from the anger and impatience that define us all, and he acknowledged how hard it was to accept the limitations brought about by his stroke and the consequent diminishment of his energies during his last 15 years.

Where I part ways with these writers is in their implicit or explicit diminishment of the value of homeownership.

The Claimant sought a declaration from the Court that the correct measure should be the (lower) diminishment in value to the property, that it was a matter for the surveyors appointed under the PWA, and that the code in the PWA overrode any jurisdiction of the Court.

The first mayoral debate, featuring Mayor de Blasio, Nicole Malliotakis and Dietl, has been widely criticized as unduly raucous, with a resulting diminishment of its value.

So fatigued and slow moving minds, that don't acknowledge the need for periodic stopping points, are even more a particular threat to our effectiveness and a diminishment of our ambient business IQ.

Wonder Woman symbolizes many of the values of the women's culture that feminists are now trying to introduce into the mainstream: strength and self - reliance for women; sisterhood and mutual support among women; peacefulness and esteem for human life; a diminishment both of «masculine» aggression and of the belief that violence is the only way of solving conflicts.