diminutions

The students who make many errors will suffer regular and irretrievable diminutions of self-esteem, and those who make only a few will stand in danger of becoming elitists.

July 15th, 2009 m_francis 2009

Apologists may cite typical postwar diminutions, but the ongoing 17% reduction from 1998 to the present applies to a navy that unlike its wartime predecessors was not previously built up.

The Decline of U.S. Naval Power Mark Helprin 2011

Any budget diminutions like the military can have their excess contributed to debt reduction.

Matthew Yglesias » Paul Ryan’s Budget Alternative: Massive Rationing 2010

"If the government mishandles this, it will unite the whole of the public sector at a time when salaries are being frozen, tens of thousands of people expect to lose their jobs and people are seeing other diminutions in their standard of living," he said.

U.K. Public Sector Report Recommends Pension Changes Ainsley Thomson 2010

But among the powers explicitly given Congress in Article III, Section 2, paragraph 2 was that “to make exceptions”—that is, Marshall explained, alterations or diminutions—“to the appellate jurisdiction, as to law and fact, of the Supreme Court.”

Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

But among the powers explicitly given Congress in Article III, Section 2, paragraph 2 was that “to make exceptions”—that is, Marshall explained, alterations or diminutions—“to the appellate jurisdiction, as to law and fact, of the Supreme Court.”

Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

But among the powers explicitly given Congress in Article III, Section 2, paragraph 2 was that “to make exceptions”—that is, Marshall explained, alterations or diminutions—“to the appellate jurisdiction, as to law and fact, of the Supreme Court.”

Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

Thus, this state of being can lead to tremendous diminutions in productivity and life can seem to pass by unless this problem is addressed.

Srinivasan Pillay: Depression: Illness Or Stuckness? 2009

The Obama camp contends the Bush administration presided over diminutions of consumer protections that helped facilitate risky loans and lead to the current housing-finance crisis.

Bush Speaks Out to Shore Up 2008

: You're not talking about complete loss of smell, just diminutions and function.

CNN Transcript Nov 8, 2007 2007