21.   Recently, however, more of the suits are being turned back by rulings by the Supreme Court and lower federal courts, greatly diminishing the power of environmentalists.

22.   Some unions have begun to challenge mergers that mean that their power may be diminished.

23.   So we can truly understand it, accept it as human and thus diminish its power over us.

24.   Some Victorian women opposed suffrage because they thought it would actually diminish their power.

25.   Southern strongly opposes efforts to diminish the power of local regulators to supervise electricity pricing, production and transmission.

26.   The work will knock you off your feet, and the inchoate presentation cannot entirely diminish its power.

27.   Though his powers are diminished by the Socialist election win, he retains control over the conduct of foreign and defense policy.

28.   Time has not diminished its power to evoke wonder.

29.   Yet somehow, she said, confronting the hearings also served to diminish their power and to help her realize their value.

30.   You have effectively diminished the power of the unions in your party.