Sentences with phrase «diminishment in»

Myth — Divorce, especially in and around the time of litigation, causes mothers to become overwhelmed and results in a diminishment in mothers» parenting.

The Court acknowledged that there was some diminishment in Mr. Meyers» responsibilities, but found that the diminishment did not constitute a fundamental breach or repudiation of the contract.

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.

[182] In this case, I find that the plaintiff has established that her earning capacity has been impaired and that there is a real and substantial possibility that the diminishment in earning capacity will result in a loss of income.

Getting back to the point of this post, there seems to be a diminishment in the use of manners today.

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

Many have speculated that one of the reasons the accusations against Weinstein finally became public and so resounding is that the producer has experienced a diminishment in standing in recent years.

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.

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

Essentially, it gives that professional permission to call specific trusted individuals (usually, your powers of attorney and / or a family member), if they have noticed some diminishment in your physical, cognitive, mental or psychological capacity.

Not exact matches

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 credibilitIn 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 credibilitin a gratuitous diminishment of credibility.

Still, even if retailers revive their brick - and - mortar strategies, the diminishment of department stores» hegemony means the average U.S. mall will look a lot different in five years.

Along the way, Akerlof found a strong connection between the diminishment of marriage on the one hand and the rise in poverty and social pathology on the other.

This diminishment of a religious mind to political activism marks a loss in our understanding of how an intellectual life is made and how a full life is lived.

He quotes Salieri's envious description of Mozart's music in the film Amadeus: «Displace one note and there would be diminishment.

I've been called out by people and I think even in disagreement we are to show grace and invitation, not dismissal and diminishment.

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

In the Christian vision, the great triumph of the Creator and Redeemer is to have transformed into an essential agent of life - bestowal what in itself is a universal power of diminishment and extinctioIn the Christian vision, the great triumph of the Creator and Redeemer is to have transformed into an essential agent of life - bestowal what in itself is a universal power of diminishment and extinctioin itself is a universal power of diminishment and extinction.

You whose loving wisdom fashions my being out of all the forces and all the hazards of earth, teach me to adopt here and now, however clumsily, an attitude the full efficacy of which will be plain to me when I am face to face with the powers of diminishment and death: grant that having desired I may believe, and believe ardently, believe above all things, in your active presence.

Second, this diminishment of the Wholly Other who has been revealed to us, this recourse to violence and to political and economic methods to express Christianity, is an admission that faith in the possibility of God's radical intervention, faith in the Holy Spirit, has been lost.

He understood that when the effect of past oppression has been to leave people in a diminished state, the attainment of true equality with their former oppressor can not much depend on his generosity but must ultimately derive from an elevation of their selves above the state of diminishment.

In our time, we are seeing the diminishment, if not the death, of logic as a compelling force for persuasion.

Her immediate wish is that there were more respect for atheists within the Republican party, or at least a diminishment of her feeling of being an «outsider,» which she now often feels when there is ¯ if I may put it this way ¯ «Christian talk» in the air.

Involvement in this kind of a lifestyle is not a journey into diminishment but an odyssey into the fullness of life and, simutaneously, a transfiguration into the glory of God.

The vividness and power of Christ's presence in the life of the believer suggests that there also may be a sense in which that presence itself is unmeditated, that is, not subject to the diminishment and deformation of two thousand years of continuous direct causal transmission.

In some strange way, the lover is an «I» in contact with a «thou,» yet he is also made one with the other so that a true union of lives takes place without the slightest loss or diminishment of the distinction between the two who have become onIn some strange way, the lover is an «I» in contact with a «thou,» yet he is also made one with the other so that a true union of lives takes place without the slightest loss or diminishment of the distinction between the two who have become onin contact with a «thou,» yet he is also made one with the other so that a true union of lives takes place without the slightest loss or diminishment of the distinction between the two who have become one.

As Hobbes's illustration to the Leviathan so eloquently depicted, an increasingly «liberated» citizenry, resulting from the diminishment of constitutive memberships in social groups and associations, would be connected only through one bond, one relation, one connection» the state.

I believe that God is present in the experiences not only of joy, growth and becoming, but also in the experiences of loss, adversity, diminishment and death.

* Reflect on someone you know who demonstrates good aging and good quality of life in the midst of diminishment.

And this is the reason why they have always sought in diverse ways to erect obstacles to the diminishment of their memory.

How can one's college years be spent in such a way that they are not a period of diminishment from religious understanding or a laming of true piety?

This campaign believed in what we, as a union, bring to the state of New York and highlighted the need for respect for public services, while speaking out against the negative impact of privatization and diminishment of vital state services.

«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.

Diminishment of cometary and meteoric bombardment allowed anaerobic microbes to spread widely in wet habitats.

Older adults can become malnourished due to a variety of changes; taste receptors dull with aging; limitations in mobility make cooking more cumbersome, leading to canned soup or cereal as a «main»; losses of partners and peers lead to social circle diminishment and depression, making one's world smaller and less interesting.

Although his career in recent years has admittedly encompassed a lot of work in which he more or less merely has to «be Will Smith,» that hasn't necessarily led to a diminishment of his chops.

While the brief and slightly heightened attention paid to poetry during these 30 days is, of course, welcome, it also serves to remind us of the diminishment of poetry in our time.

She knew the clattering wagons were bound for Boston proper, but the vague tangle of streets that lay across the Broadway bridge surfaced in her mind with the sound of the horses and resubmerged with its diminishment.

Instead, she cites his sobering reelection in 2012 as the show's genesis: the second time around, she recalls, there was still pride, but also a diminishment of expectations.

Faced with painting's imposing history and the diminishment of the medium by newer art forms, recent painters may have found themselves in similarly «minor» situations; the provisionality of their work is an index of the impossibility of painting and the equally persistent impossibility of not painting.Exhibition Schedule Following are current and upcoming solo shows by some of the artists discussed:

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).

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.

The greater the amount of water vapor or CO2 in the air the greater the diminishment of the radiation transversing the CO2 or water vapor is.

In addition to the main threshold for a complete breakdown of the circulation, other thresholds may exist that involve more - limited changes, such as a cessation or diminishment of Labrador Sea deep water formation (Wood et al., 1999).

Thus, variability in the AMOC's strength is of much interest, as a diminishment or strengthening would impact the ocean's effectiveness as a heat and carbon reservoir.

The problem is, the destruction of biodiversity in our world's oceans, the diminishment of life in the oceans, means that if the oceans die then we die.

This diminishment of our courthouse libraries is a great pity, especially since (as I have said above) these libraries are in the forefront of providing library services and research assistance at the local level.

During the course of litigation, Laiken obtained a very broadly worded ex parte Mareva order freezing the assets of Sabourin and other named defendants which included enjoining any others «with knowledge of this Order» to «prevent the sale, disposition, withdrawal, dissipation, sale, assignment, dealing with, transfer, conveyance, conversion, encumbrance or diminishment» of the assets, specifically including money held in «trust accounts».