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A diminishing role for nuclear weapons

The ideology is out there. It is not diminishing.

First, countries with a diminishing stake retain disproportionate power.

Others are emerging gradually.

Calm is gradually returning.

Households will gradually save enough to restore their wealth, and household consumption will gradually recover as well.

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.

Symptoms usually develop gradually over years.

Modifications can take place only gradually.

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

Gradually, bringing it down, bringing it down.

Now these have gradually shrunk to nothing.

This can now change, at least gradually.

As Elizabeth aged her image gradually changed.

Gradually, however, such scenes became less popular.

We then gradually withdraw it towards Us .

Then We withdraw it towards Us gradually .

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

Gradually, electoral implementation was taken over by Timorese.

However, since 2000, hopes have been gradually fading.

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.

Looking ahead, the IMF predicts that Greece will have a gradually rising primary surplus and a gradually declining overall deficit over the next several years.

But elements of an Asian way are gradually emerging.

Indeed, non sustainable products should be phased out gradually.

In Eastern Finland, the guerrilla movement was gradually extinguished.

We have revealed the Qur 'an to you gradually

We have revealed the Qur 'an to you gradually

It is a proclaimed objective to be met gradually.

It had thus gradually improved its citizens' living conditions.

Once the conflict subsides, all the interventions gradually disappear.

Up to now, Mr. Quang's health has gradually improved.

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 .