Sentences with phrase «severely diminished»

«The Stolen Generations was a process that systematically attempted to erase both our Indigenous personhood, and nationhood, and in doing so it severely diminished our human rights.

There's no doubt that this tablet offers a great overall experience, and ticks many boxes of what people are looking for in an 8 - inch device, but at this price the market is severely diminished.

When someone who has always been physically active loses his physical function in these years, the enjoyment of retirement can be severely diminished, with less opportunity to replace these activities with other interests in life.

No matter the initial cause of distraction, if truckers aren't looking at the road as closely as they should or don't have both hands on the wheel, their reaction time may be severely diminished.

I wonder what the soil biome carbon concentration was REALLY like before the cutting and burning of the world's forest, my guess is that now we see a severely diminished community, and that only very recent Ag practices like no - till and reforestation have started to help rebuild it.

Higgins suggests the following definition for ecocide: The extensive destruction, damage to or loss of ecosystem (s) of a given territory, whether by human agency or by other causes, to such an extent that peaceful enjoyment by the inhabitants of the that territory has been severely diminished.

Is «ascertainable ecocide» (deforestation, oil spills, fossil fuel extraction, pollution - dumping) a problem for «the inhabitants of [a] territory», if it is not the case that «peaceful enjoyment by the inhabitants of that territory have been severely diminished»?

In this mission, being a crime scene investigation scenario, you could skip a lot of the detective work but chances of a positive outcome are severely diminished.

Remember, your rewards will be severely diminished or completely negated if you end up paying interest on your purchases.

If the ocular health of an animal is compromised, their quality of life is severely diminished.

In severe or chronic cases, there may be no option other than removal of the gland, especially if the function is severely diminished or absent.

There were some days that Musket was so sore that he was sometimes not using the leg at all, and his ability to run and play was severely diminished.

The rise of Kobo in Canada can be attributed to the downfall of once dominant Sony, which has severely diminished their e-Reader portfolio and visibility on a retail level.

Borders, B. Daltons and Waldens are all bankrupt and out of business, the process of book discovery has been severely diminished.

Sony used to have the most widespread appeal, but has been severely diminished in the last two years.

Not that they have a choice, as advertising revenue has severely diminished by 42 % since 2008.

Four - Cylinder Performance There's a downside to the Active Eco mode, and it's a big one: Gas pedal responsiveness is severely diminished.

Faced with persistent failure as a result of their poor literacy skills, these students frequently become frustrated, disengage from school, «act out» behaviorally, and without significant interventions and supports to address their literacy deficits, may drop out of school and face a lifetime of severely diminished economic prospects.

School - level deviation would mean district - level accountability, but severely diminished district - level authority.

Seven a.m. start times for high school often mean rising at dawn to catch the bus, which means much less sleep than the National Sleep Foundation's recommended eight to 10 hours a night, which means severely diminished alertness.

While the recently announced delay of Red Dead Redemption 2 to early 2018 is sad news for fans (unless they consider it time well spent perfecting the game of course), it is a breath of fresh air for all of Rockstar and Take - Two's competitors who feared severely diminished sales in the latter half of this year due to the highly anticipated Western title.

For this sequel, audiences are fully expecting the gratuitous semen jokes and cartoonish raunch, thus whatever novelty the crassness had the first time around is severely diminished.

With the Coast Guard crew's numbers severely diminished, just four men are sent on a small motorboat to somehow navigate the crushing, freezing waters and locate the Pendleton and its survivors.

Heck, when Xbox Live Arcade has already got a version with online leaderboards and other modern trimmings, the justification for charging an extra 100 Point «import fee» is severely diminished.

This means that for many the ability to digest food is severely diminished.

But make no mistake about it: behind - the - scenes your rights to make your own decisions about your personal health - care issues are being rapidly eroded, and your health - care options are being severely diminished.

These are incredibly sensitive as they have to deal with extremely low light conditions due to the Sun's light being severely diminished at this distance.

There is an opposite effect of the deficiency gene in carriers (i.e. enhanced respiratory capacity) compared with full deficiency (i.e. severely diminished respiratory capacity).

In separate research Famiglietti looked at California's aquifers — which lay outside the Colorado River basin — and found that they had also been severely diminished, having dropped by about 7 trillion gallons since just 2011.

Labour politicians have awoken this morning to find their grip on Britain severely diminished following disappointing election results in England, Scotland and Wales.

With the Cowboys cutting their own deal, the league's drawing power in cyberspace is severely diminished... The NFL faces «the worst senior class in the draft in a decade,» according to one team's scouting director.

This was a severely diminished squad that went to one of the best in the wests homes and came out with a draw that was very nearly a win if not for one person's mistakes.

Even people who eat «regular» food are realizing that raw foods are packed with necessary nutrients such as vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, enzymes, phytonutrients, and other nutritive co-factors — all of which can be severely diminished if heated or processed.

-- Psychopathology is essentially long and severely diminished and distorted growth.

Though the smoke and fireworks of television's wizardry may still be appealing, like Dorothy in Oz we have seen the human operator behind the curtain, and its effectiveness has been severely diminished.

Except in cases of severely diminished capacity, the perpetrator of murder still forfeits any personal claim on life, even though society may add an injustice of its own by being inconsistent with a normally more lenient treatment of similar circumstances.

I would need constant medical care and my quality of life would be severely diminished.

I wonder if a future misselling scandal will emerge if this happens and those stuck with severely diminished lifetime income shout betrayal.

It would have been suppressed to hide the fact that he had children, which would severely diminish his status as god's only son if there were millions of baby Yahwehs.

In this context Hans Urs Von Balthasar observed that since the Council the Church has become more than ever a male institution, which without the Marian dimension threatens to become inhuman and irrelevant.9 It is essential that we rediscover the feminine, Marian dimension of the Church because viewing the Church as a mere organisational or institutional entity not only impoverishes her from within but also «severely diminishes her authentic religious appeal and misleads women who are seeking a legitimate and fruitful role».10 The loss of this feminine dimension of the Church gives rise to a false feminism in the Church - one which expresses itself in appeals for the ordination of woman.

Critics of that solution have argued it would severely diminish the savings the proposal aims to redirect toward tax cuts.

Other than weightlessness, the only other situation that severely diminishes T - cell function is HIV infection.

Iced drinks with a meal or a frozen dessert after a meal will severely diminish your ability to digest what you have just eaten.

I've been a fan of diminutive spitfire Anna Kendrick since 2003's Camp, but this recent sojourn into Swanberg territory (she also starred in last year's bore Drinking Buddies) is severely diminishing her brand.

Eco mode severely diminishes gas pedal response, and it wasn't long before I got fed up with it and switched back to Normal.

With variable - incidence under electronic control, it is possible to have the turbine reach a good operating speed quickly or at lower engine speed without severely diminishing its utility at higher engine speed.

This means quite a lot for a sports model, where worrying about road conditions severely diminishes the hyped - up experience.

The trunk space is nice for a car of this size, but when a golf bag is added, it severely diminishes the space available for anything else.

Sport mode, air conditioning use, and aggressive throttle applications severely diminish the range.

Situated on the base of the tablet, either side of the new 8 - pin Lightning dock connector, the speakers are easily muffled by the hand when holding the device in a standard and conventional manner, an issue that can severely diminish the sound quality and deplete the overall enjoyment of the experience.