But the limit the swings policy may amplify intervention s effects by diminishing market participants desire to push the exchange rate away from PPP.

As China s demographic dividend disappears, its low end labor market is shrinking, driving up its once rock bottom labor costs and diminishing its rate of return on capital.

A diminishing role for nuclear weapons

The ideology is out there. It is not diminishing.

First, countries with a diminishing stake retain disproportionate power.

And we are now well on the way to diminishing returns.

Government spending is no less subject to diminishing returns than anything else.

And the number of people who can afford it is rapidly diminishing.

But this is closely linked to a diminishing sense of common identity.

As the war grinds on, prospects for a negotiated solution are diminishing.

But selling off US Treasury securities, it was argued, was not in China s interest, given that it would drive up the renminbi s exchange rate against the dollar, diminishing the domestic value of China s reserves and undermining the export sector s competitiveness.

The willingness of the dispossessed to endure the existing disparities was fast diminishing.

The WTO will survive, but its centrality in the trade system is rapidly diminishing.

Similarly, the high rate of sexual crimes committed against women and girls is not necessarily seen as gender based discrimination as a result of prevailing traditional and customary attitudes that women are the property of men and the diminishing level of respect afforded to women.

So far, Musharraf has accepted his diminishing stature quietly though he has few other options.

Some economists admittedly a diminishing number deny that there can ever be an output gap.

The peripheral countries external deficits are falling rapidly, thus diminishing the need for foreign financing.

Meanwhile, diminishing and aging populations in most of Europe will have made immigration a necessity.

For most, drinking water is a diminishing resource that is either unaffordable or simply unavailable.

During the last four years of his life, Arafat s public space was literally and metaphorically diminishing.

Mexico s oil fields are diminishing, which means that it may need to look for external supplies.

But traditional political differences based on disagreement over fundamental values play a diminishing part in elections.

This, coupled with diminishing budgets, led to a period of reduced activity and growing materiel obsolescence.

Or He may seize them by diminishing their portion . Yet your Lord is compassionate and kind .

We share the Secretary General's feeling on the diminishing credibility of the Commission on Human Rights.

The Arab Spring has turned bloody and unpredictably turbulent, further diminishing the odds for peace in Palestine.

A government cannot liquidate its deficit if the source of its revenues, the national income, is diminishing.

Japan s population peaked in 2004 and is now falling, while its younger generations show diminishing interests in automobiles.

And it shows no signs of diminishing in the latest fiscal year ending in June, the return was 22.9 .

Stunted children often struggle to reach their potential in school and ultimately the workplace, diminishing economic productivity and development.

In addition, as the cancer adjusts to the drug, further mutations are likely to occur, diminishing the drug s efficacy.

The pressure of an atmospheric gas decreases with altitude due to the diminishing mass of gas above each location.

The economy of the developed countries is maturing, which results in diminishing investment returns in those countries in general.

The effective interest rate, effective annual interest rate, annual equivalent rate (AER) or simply effective rate is the interest rate on a loan or financial product restated from the nominal interest rate as an interest rate with annual compound interest payable in arrears.

Argentina, by contrast, is a highly gas dependent country with diminishing reserves equivalent to less than eight years of production.

The emergence of new world powers, combined with the diminishing influence of current powers, is not propitious for stricter disciplines.

Another tool to mitigate the disappearance of SMEs (including by diminishing the spread of large retail outlets) is zoning regulations.

(Former USSR) Schools, as a Member of Scholars Group, constituted for comparative study of Criminal Law for diminishing human killing.

The population growth rate surged as the mortality rate dropped more rapidly than the birth rate.

This long term trend towards multifamily housing may be expected to continue, further diminishing the importance of land to home values.

So is mistrust between the two powers diminishing? The People s Daily seems to consider bilateral relations as normal at this point.

And Saudi Arabia s large middle class is likely to respond to diminishing prosperity by calling for a more representative political system.

Diminishing the use of violence by addressing its socio economic root causes is an important aspect of any long term exercise.

Member States are therefore rightly concerned about the decline in the Assembly's prestige and its diminishing contribution to the Organization's activities.

They worship nothing but what their fathers worshipped before them . We shall certainly give them their share in full , without diminishing anything .