Several factors have diminished investors willingness to extend long term credit.

Criminologists have shown, statistically, that in US states where convicts are executed, serious crimes have not diminished.

But, while Europe s defenses have been considerably strengthened, the threat of terrorism has not diminished.

The risk premia on the sovereign debt of Greece, Ireland, and others have not diminished.

When structural barriers to employment have diminished, unemployment benefits should revert to their old norms.

An Age of Diminished Expectations?

Yet under President Vladimir Putin, with the economy growing robustly, these feelings have hardened, not diminished.

The appetite for global solutions has diminished while national politics have taken increasing control of the agenda.

Indeed, many historical episodes of diminished or even negative growth have gone by without any unusual social problems.

Later, the attacks on the police diminished.

Inequality has diminished, though from astronomically high levels.

By contrast, regrettably, extremist violence has not diminished.

Indeed, over time their ability to bring results diminished.

Moreover, the capacity of Mexico s security machinery appears diminished.

Nonetheless, recent events, together with the PA s dwindling resources, have diminished Abbas s credibility among Palestinians, who increasingly view him as desperate.

But the shifts that have taken place left Russia much diminished in terms of its sphere of influence and military might.

Global events in the recent past have reinforced, rather than diminished, our support for the principles enshrined in the Rome Statute.

Similarly, while bankers have regained their bonuses, workers are seeing their wages eroded and their hours diminished, further widening the income gap.

Given Russia s economic fundamentals, Putin s diminished popularity might appear surprising.

However, separatist pressures, while diminished, continue to exist in Crimea.

As trade liberalization has diminished the EU s income, mainly derived from customs duties, individual countries have increasingly sought to minimize their net contributions.

Its ability to face emergencies had diminished, however, since the 1990s.

Advanced country growth may be diminished for a time, but the compensating factors that have emerged represent the most important lesson of the crisis.

Over the past century, ethnic distinctions have diminished to the point where there is no significant inter ethnic friction, although regional divisions still occur.

The calamitous US military experience in Iraq has left it strategically diminished.

Thereafter, tensions between British officials and colonists over western land policy diminished.

Again, they are diminished and bowed down through oppression, trouble, and sorrow.

The gaps between men and women in Civil Service's internal job tenders participation, both as candidates and appointees, have diminished in the past four years.

Since 1990 the differences between men and women have diminished in 1990 the hourly wage of women was 73 of the hourly wage of men.

This principal agent problem is much diminished in the case of commodity bonds.

Given the ongoing attacks on Gaza, however, Internet access has been significantly diminished.

The new legislation provides a variety of tools and protections for people who have diminished capability to make their own decisions (e.g. financial, personal, health care).

Marx's father died in May 1838, resulting in a diminished income for the family.

Poverty diminished the poor countries' capacity to cope with the effects of those disasters.

In the final analysis, the main lesson learned over the past five years has been that violence and terrorism have diminished the prospects for peaceful coexistence between two States and have not enhanced them.

In other words, you can have two years of gradual decline with some pain, or three years of nauseating treatments, chemo brain, loss of hair, and diminished dignity.

Although the draft resolution before us does not single out any country in particular, it is obvious that the developing countries have diminished opportunities to be represented proportionally.

Monarchs today are reared to be ordinary, as suits their diminished role in national life.

(This theme underlies the title of Krugman s classic 1990 book The Age of Diminished Expectations. )

With the loss of Gaza to Hamas, his political clout has been diminished even further.

Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.

The CARICOM States would have hoped that racism would have been no more than a diminished and insignificant practice by the third millennium, and that colonialism, as an unfair political system, would not have endured into the twenty first century.

If they succeeded at all, high interest rates would have induced them to tighten their belts, and their current account deficits, which in the case of Greece and Portugal exceeded 10 of GDP, would have diminished.

It enters this end game facing diminished resources and waning political will within the international community.

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