Diminution Quotes

Your characterization of it as being a significantly different threat environment, based on what we historically have heard, is absolutely correct... So there certainly is a diminution, reduction in the amount of intelligence, and the decibel level is lower. - Tom Ridge

We're seeing an improvement in output, which seems to be driven by both the export side and the domestic demand side, and we're seeing a gradual diminution of deflation. - Richard Jerram

We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one. - Herbert Spencer

We believe that established enterprises accelerated IT, equity investment, partnerships, and other types in spending since they feared that an unexpected and superior dot.com business model would threaten their existence. With the diminution of the dot.com threat, purchase cycles should lengthen, return on investment should matter again, and the worth of business models will have to be demonstrated. - Thomas Kraemer

To get faster job growth, we're going to need either faster aggregate demand, which seems hard to fathom, or we're going to need some diminution of the recent extra cyclical pop in productivity... When will that start? Anybody who says they know is lying. - Joshua Feinman

The University of Miami has resisted the trend. (The majority of) their players tend to stay on that campus, and I haven't noticed any diminution in their draft status. - Leigh Steinberg

The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper. - Friedrich Nietzsche

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths. - Groucho Marx

The diminution of Rita's winds led to a dip in energy prices, recovery in equities and capped the bond market. - Brian Robinson