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

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

Militia attacks on villages have decreased. The humanitarian situation in the camps has improved.

As a result, there is considerably less public pressure to do something dramatically different.

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

Indeed, over time their ability to bring results diminished.

North Korea s nuclear ambitions seem to have died down, at least for now.

Most foreign aid programs with the sole exception of Britain s have dwindled or been eliminated altogether.

There is thus little prospect of an alternative Shiite power center emerging out of the chaos in Iraq.

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

But this mechanism lacks the common political will needed to activate it the less it is used, the less usable it will become.

President Obama should not draw the conclusion that arguments about the Fed s accountability have gone away with Bernanke s confirmation.

During this period, differences in schooling levels between boys and girls have lessened everywhere though at different speeds.

Tabarrok found that social pressures resisting the use of transplant organs decreased over time as the opportunity of individual decisions increased.

Initially they were an essential means of transport, but with better technology their importance dwindled until they were removed in line with environmental treaties.

As markets underpriced risk in order to lend to increasingly indebted countries, pressure on interest rates diminished.

Increasingly marginalized, the opposition dwindled into an impotent force, mere window dressing to a one party state.

A president s modernizing vision degenerated into a dictator s power driven myopia.

The window of opportunity for financial reform is now closing, and business as usual will only result in more crises and more bailouts.

Employment in manufacturing has dwindled in recent years, owing primarily to the closure of several watch assembly plants in the Territory in the late 1990s.

China may resume a managed float of its exchange rate, particularly if the uncertainty of the overall post crisis economic situation diminishes.

Russia is no longer hampered by communist ideology and a cumbersome central planning system, and the likelihood of ethnic fragmentation, though still a threat, has waned.

WASHINGTON, DC With the release of America s National Intelligence Estimate, according to which Iran has suspended its nuclear weapons program, the prospect of military confrontation with the Bush administration dimmed.

The tail risks of a Greek exit from the eurozone or a massive loss of market access in Italy and Spain have been reduced for 2013.

PRINCETON The prospect of a US military strike on Syria has dimmed following President Barack Obama s embrace of an international initiative to take control of Syria s chemical weapons stockpile.

Indeed, from 2000 to 2004, the increase in net government expenditures accounted for 150 of income growth, as other sources of income shriveled up.

Similarly, as large mining projects stalled, India had to resort to higher imports of coal and scrap iron, while its exports of iron ore dwindled.

Women not only bear the combined burdens of occupation and patriarchy but due to the former their capacity to transform the unequal gender structures of the latter is curtailed.

In the past decade, YPF s reserves diminished significantly, along with those of most oil companies operating in Argentina, because investment in exploration was greatly reduced.

Yes, the chances of an immediate repeat of the acute financial meltdown of 2008 are much reduced by the fact that most investors, regulators, consumers, and even politicians will remember their financial near death experience for quite some time.

At the same time, since returns to capital are kept low by high wages, very little investment occurs. The excess of savings over investment flows abroad as capital exports.

Households, burdened with debt while their retirement savings wither and job prospects remain dim, have spent only a fraction of the tax cuts.

No one points out the huge opportunity cost of what could have been and what could still be albeit barely if the US took decisive action to save tens of thousands of Syrian lives and possibly tip the balance of the conflict.

Chances that it gets the budget approved this year are slim, and, unless the dispute is resolved soon, the Union will not have an operational budget by 2007.

However, waves of pogroms, associated with the Holocaust ( see Romania during World War II and Holocaust in Romania ) as well as emigration to Israel during Romania's communist period decimated this population.

But from 1991 through the present time, emphasized by the attacks of 2001, the idea of an all out nuclear war has diminished and the idea of a single event, act of nuclear terrorism is what we have instead.

The value of China s assets as future claims on real resources has already been diluted by dollar depreciation, and calls in the US for inflating away America s debt burden portend a further decline.

Today, however, the catalytic power of Deng s initial changes has waned, with rising wages, weakening external demand, and increasing competition from other emerging economies indicating the exhaustion of a growth model premised on exports and investment.

Refugee management was a shared responsibility and the experience in Zambia had demonstrated the effectiveness of burden sharing. His delegation noted with satisfaction the increasing collaboration and partnerships in the work of UNHCR in the light of dwindling funds for humanitarian emergencies.

The window of opportunity for financial reform is now closing, and business as usual will only result in more crises and more bailouts. South Korea must therefore do everything it can to reinvigorate the debate.

This is an extraordinarily high dividend in the world oil industry. In the past decade, YPF s reserves diminished significantly, along with those of most oil companies operating in Argentina, because investment in exploration was greatly reduced.

56. The weakening of intergenerational connections in the context of ageing societies implies that various needs of youth, children and older persons, which may have been supported through intricate and complex familial relationships, are increasingly not being met and are instead becoming the responsibility of the State or the private sector.

Yes, the chances of an immediate repeat of the acute financial meltdown of 2008 are much reduced by the fact that most investors, regulators, consumers, and even politicians will remember their financial near death experience for quite some time. As a result, it could take a while for recklessness to hit full throttle again.

During the early days of the Arab Spring protests, the UN, led by Secretary General Ban Ki moon, spoke out forcefully for human rights and democracy. But the UN s capacity to ensure desirable outcomes is limited while the hope that drove the Arab Spring may not be depleted, it has clearly diminished significantly.