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  • Chronic economic anomie: long term dimunition of social regulation.

    New Orleans Suicide Rate Up…Needs Better Sample, but if True It’s Called Anomie 2006

  • In order to maintain his position that fiction can be translated without appreciable dimunition in the integrity of the translated text, Thirlwell needs to minimize the obstacles posed by "style" understood as a writer's characteristic exploration of the resources of his/her native language.

    Translated Texts 2010

  • At the most, we might ultimately witness some dimunition in length of some texts -- which formany kinds of writing, for example academic criticism or history or narrative reporting, won't be such a loss at all.

    Writing and Publishing 2010

  • At the most, we might ultimately witness some dimunition in length of some texts -- which formany kinds of writing, for example academic criticism or history or narrative reporting, won't be such a loss at all.

    The Didactic Embodiment of the Physical Book 2009

  • Page 131: The dimunition of the capital stock of the society, or of the funds destined for the maintenance of industry, however, as it lowers the wages of labor, so it raises the profits of stock, and consequently the interest of money.

    A Bland and Deadly Courtesy skzbrust 2009

  • But this means "Big Government", complain American neo-conservatives, so that these unexceptional, commonsensical propositions become transmuted into an alleged dimunition of individual freedom – culminating in the Tea Party movement and the breakdown of US politics.

    Growth is about so much more than just the top rate of tax | Will Hutton 2011

  • At the most, we might ultimately witness some dimunition in length of some texts -- which formany kinds of writing, for example academic criticism or history or narrative reporting, won't be such a loss at all.

    November 2009 2009

  • Page 131: The dimunition of the capital stock of the society, or of the funds destined for the maintenance of industry, however, as it lowers the wages of labor, so it raises the profits of stock, and consequently the interest of money.

    A Bland and Deadly Courtesy skzbrust 2009

  • Is it any wonder that there was a dimunition of enthusiasm among younger voters, independents and progressive activists?

    John McAuliff: Cuba Symbolizes Failure of Obama Administration John McAuliff 2010

  • With the election of Barack Obama in 2008, the gun lobby's biggest fear was the dimunition of the power they have enjoyed since well before the days of Charlton Heston.

    Jayne Lyn Stahl: Look Who's Playing with Guns Now Jayne Lyn Stahl 2010

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