But the President's ability to make his vetoes stick has clearly diminished.

The bravado on both sides has clearly diminished in recent days.

But the global military threat to the United States has clearly diminished, making it sensible to reduce force levels, guardsmen included.

The severity of the surface damage, however, was clearly diminished by 180 minutes after ethanol.

Some species are clearly diminished in range and may have been extirpated as agricultural pests or by habitat destruction.

Optimism over the prospects for reaching a budget agreement had clearly diminished by weekend's end.

But despite a winter in which millions of Germans had taken to the streets to protest attacks on foreigners, the violence had clearly not diminished.

But by the end of this season, the Jets' confidence in him had clearly diminished.

The fear of a missile attack has clearly diminished in Zagreb.