Sentences with phrase «much diminished»

One where they are still somewhat trained, but have a much diminished role... with diminished fees.

«The opportunity to start a small shop is much diminished.

Print is not dead, but it is much diminished.

Responding to Pinto's claims, Steven Francis, a former manager in the enforcement division of the FSA and now a partner at Reynolds Porter Chamberlain LLP, says that if the FSA takes the view that a court is unlikely to impose a custodial sentence, the appeal of pursuing the criminal route is much diminished.

The role of the author is much diminished, as is the capability to challenge and improve the work of authors; this is less - so in tax publishing where there remains investment in in - house writing skills.

But it's worth noting that though still much diminished from typical snow depth totals, the present range is now higher than the driest years — 2014 - 2015 and 1976 - 1977.

It would still leave us with a much diminished planet.

Now, that power base looks so much diminished that they are left with debating in the stark light of day in public.

«Most glaciers will be gone or much diminished by the end of the century — so where will the water come from in the dry season?

We still have some local, territorial group memberships, but their importance is now much diminished and their influence weakened.

The species will survive, but with a much diminished population.

If the market sells off 45 % over the course of three years, like it did in 2000 — 2002, the principal left to make a recovery will be much diminished if the investor was taking out an additional 5 % each year to meet living expenses.

Its prestige, not really much diminished by falling profits or declining quality, is now being marketed to new customers in countries not previously inclined or able to acquire many luxury cars.

There was a time when it seemed that the power of the state superintendent's office would be much diminished.

So it does seem that Malloy favors a much diminished role for organized teachers» unions.

It would go too far to say it no longer exists, but it has been much diminished.

Struggling to find any truly iconic moments, the film doesn't linger long in the mind and will surely be much diminished on the small screen.

Extremely busy in the 1920s, Steers usually played professional men, doctors, lawyers, and politicians, typecasting that continued well into the sound era, albeit in much diminished circumstances.

On the advice of my GI doctor, I have been FODMAPing for about two months with good results — IBS symptoms much diminished — but still with flare - ups, certainly not fully comfortable.

Then you will know that your good habit has begun to take solid form, and the chance of your abandoning the program will be much diminished.

«We predicted in our study that most glaciers will be gone or much diminished by the end of the century — so where will the water come from in the dry season?

Today, unions are much diminished and tamed beasts which has promoted accusations from the unions and the Labour Party that this is all partisan politics designed to nobble them.

He finally left office with Blair himself in mid-2007, by which time his authority — and Whitehall empire — were much diminished.

Lord Sewel's resignation from the House of Lords came with a carefully constructed statement aimed at clawing back some authority for a much diminished institution.

My role today is much, much diminished.»

Right was not on his side and as a candidate he was much diminished after his 2008 loss.

Her support for private providers in the health sector might go against her with the unions, but their control over who leads Labour is much diminished.

Nor do I think (pace Ian & Nina Graham) that useful structural instabilities of the sort I've tried to identify, that the chances for real debate are much diminished by the fact that Clegg and Cameron are both the products of Very Posh Public Schools.

Rather confusingly, Hannan seems to want a centralised Big Government edict to enforce the social responsibility he wants to see, writing «if everyone were responsible for his own patch of pavement, the disruption caused by snow would be much diminished.

But it's political importance is much diminished:

Usage of these forms of Banee was common in the 1940s (AVERAGE # 974) and is now much diminished (# 1723, ▼ 98 %), with the version Bonnie becoming somewhat dated.

As for the severely disabled who need constant everything to live and most of which will have a much diminished life expectancy (if only a few years or less), we should spoil the shit out of those kids.

But what seemed plain enough from that Monaco game where Chelsea were simply torn apart by Falcao, Atletico Madrid's Colombia centre forward, was that the summer transfer policy has gravely weakened the team defensively, while the decision to allow the dreadnought centre forward Didier Drogba to depart, on a free transfer to Shanghai Shenhua, has much diminished the forward line in which Fernando Torres, his form so unpredictable, imposes a radically different and less effective pattern on the attack.

Their authority is much diminished in our dissolving age.

Even if creditors play ball, investors are left with a much diminished company.

Generally, emerging markets continue to grow at above - trend global GDP growth rates, but the growth is much diminished from what it was forecast to be in coming years.

Not exact matches

The insecure believe there is only so much success to go around, so when someone else takes the stage they believe it diminishes their efforts.

People have accomplished that by exploiting a giant loophole: The size of the tax deduction is based on a claim about how much the land's value is diminished by the promise not to develop it.

Individuals seeking to maintain returns and diversified exposure to U.S. equities need to cast a much wider net than they have in the past, given the diminished number of publicly traded companies and the maturity of those businesses.

It is common knowledge that if you are sleep - deprived, hungry, or perhaps you drank too much the night before, your ability to handle tough discussions diminishes.

Here's the good stuff: Instead of having to pay a 55 % estate or gift tax on the 30 % stock transfer, the child pays much less because, the IRS says, the GRAT diminishes the value of the stock.

And that might increase feelings of guilt for being paid so much more than you've earned or deserve, thus diminishing happiness.

In terms of the large - scale, mass - produced economy, the utility of low - skill human workers is rapidly diminishing, as many blue - collar jobs (e.g., in manufacturing) and white - collar jobs (e.g., processing insurance paperwork) can be handled much more cheaply by automated systems.

These concerns are further inter-related to the diminishing state of food stocks, farmlands, oceans, climate, bio-diversity and more that are adding to an overall decline of the planet's wealth thus making the probability associated with a massive die - off in some form much more likely.

Or would the principle of diminishing returns cut it back to something much less on an hourly basis?

Along with improving capital spending and consumer spending, helped by lower gasoline prices, the diminishing fiscal headwinds should allow the US economy to grow much more strongly than for a number of years, he adds.

Mutual Funds Canada catering to the: Investor — Advisor — and Fundco — Advertising Marketing and Distribution of Canadian Mutual Funds - By: Mutual Fund The entire Canadian mutual fund industry with all it's virtues and downfalls has had a lack of participant marketplace growth and much lustre has diminished even further with bad markets overall -LSB-...]

Addressing these new challenges would not diminish the challenges of past decades; nor would such a discussion need to claim too much for current circumstances.

One of several Jewish scholars involved, his role as a New Testament scholar was to help the production stay faithful to the text but also «diminish as much as possible scenes or statements that could be construed as overly negative toward Jews and Jewish judgment.»

However much she continues to be missed, would the right time to die have been months or years later, eyesight progressively diminished, hearing no better, even intellect liable (unthinkably) to decline, unable to be of use to herself or to others, forsaken to the attentions of strangers?