The cap on damage awards for pain and suffering (legally described as a diminishment in the quality life) may increase litigation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reform Should Include a Better Malpractice System] Reference

We favor that kind of diminishment as inducement for the two sides to negotiate in earnest.    From Wordnik.com.  [JSOnline.com] Reference

It's a juvenile attempt at diminishment by the GOP.    From Wordnik.com.  [DNC Launches New Ad Against McCain On Iraq -- RNC Says It's Illegal] Reference

Tad felt the diminishment almost like a personal loss.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Far Call]

FELT: There's gradual diminishment and then there's death.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 29, 2006] Reference

Which again, is a cornerstone in the diminishment of HIV-AIDS.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 30, 2004] Reference

Another, is the diminishment of influence of the neocon pundit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bloodbath Alert: GOP Losing Its Grip On Multiple House Seats] Reference

Pulling back feels like a diminishment of our life possibilities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Liz Perle: Learning to Spend (and spend . . . and spend . . .)] Reference

This unfortunately leads directly to a diminishment "absolute liberty".    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

But you have to accept a certain amount of physical diminishment as you age.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Sirius' Poetry From New Poet Laureate W.S. Merwin] Reference

DOBBS: Well, Hank Sheinkopf, forecast correctly some diminishment in her lead.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 2, 2007] Reference

We are seeing, in the diminishment of the power of hotstars, merely the first step.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darkness of the Light] Reference

Our sense of justice must be geared toward the diminishment of human suffering, right?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jonathan Tolins: The Fight Against Empathy] Reference

It is these last two forms of conservatism that are most deserving of diminishment. by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Killing Conservatism] Reference

"" There's no mystery in this; there's been a real diminishment of economic anxiety. ''.    From Wordnik.com.  [Does Dole Have A Prayer?] Reference

They're scared, frankly, that they're going to see a diminishment of their quality of care.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 11, 2009] Reference

We can tell you in the last five minutes we have had a subtle diminishment of the winds here.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 26, 2004] Reference

And I understand that those who use it are basically shorthanding the meanness and diminishment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Washington Times Compares 'Tea-Bagger' To N-Word] Reference

What this indicates to us is that this evil of suicide bombing is not in a period of diminishment.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 2, 2002] Reference

Is this any kind of significant diminishment or is it still really strong and potentially really bad?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 23, 2005] Reference

Ed, have we seen any significant diminishment in the wind and the speed and the power of this hurricane?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 23, 2005] Reference

That itself creates a process of friction that could lead to diminishment of camaraderie and shared spirit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why The Tea Party Is Like A Starfish, Not A Spider] Reference

The culture-consuming audience that should provide poetry's best readers has scarcely noticed its diminishment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Aren't Poets More Politically Active?] Reference

There can be no delusion or diminishment of the integrity of the inspection system that UNSCOM has put in place.    From Wordnik.com.  [President Remarks On Iraq To Pentagon Personnel] Reference

UN-sponsored elections in 1993 helped restore some semblance of normalcy, as did the rapid diminishment of the Khmer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2001 CIA World Factbook] Reference

Nor does this imply a vice in default, because this very diminishment of mirth in them is in accordance with reason.    From Wordnik.com.  [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference

Gingrich's bill would allow anyone claiming as little as a 10 percent diminishment in property value to sue the government.    From Wordnik.com.  [Muddying The Waters] Reference

No cures as such, but "a diminishment of homosexual feelings" to the point where some patients can marry and have families.    From Wordnik.com.  [Born Or Bred?] Reference

What is the sacrifice of a few lives and the diminishment of our culture, cheating and lying, taking controlled substances.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 7, 2004] Reference

Senators Menendez, Clinton and Schumer have made it clear there won't be any diminishment at all of their energy going forward.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 24, 2006] Reference

It leaves us with a regressed president who needs to protect himself more than ever from diminishment, humiliation, and collapse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coleen Rowley: Dangers of a Cornered George Bush] Reference

Some studies have indicated there may be some diminishment of cognitive ability either temporarily or permanently after the surgery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Still the Comeback Kid?] Reference

I think -- scientists call it shifting baselines, whereby we've gotten used to diminishment because it's happened slowly in our lifetime.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 1, 2010] Reference