This diminishes the authority and respect of the whole Senate in front of ordinary citizens.

He believed that physical punishment diminished respect for the one administering it and ruptured the bond of affection between Jesuits and those they were trying to "help."

The inevitable result: reinforced ties between would-be judges and their partisan supporters, and diminished public respect and confidence in judicial decision making no matter which candidates win today.

The sacking, he said, diminished respect for conventions.

Military service could not be avoided, and it didn't diminish Hausen's love or respect for Maxi-millian.

Yet nothing would diminish respect for the law or set a more dangerous precedent than to tolerate a lower standard of prosecutorial conduct for impeachment.

It has reached the point that some historians even caution that enthusiasm for Adams, the nation's second president, shouldn't be allowed to diminish respect accorded his successor, Thomas Jefferson.

In writing about the deterioration of his friendship with his friend David, he shows us the simple reason: it will diminish and destroy affection and respect.

Broken homes in broken-down neighborhoods trigger feelings of abandonment and diminish respect for authority.

Moreover, the manner in which the clause was invoked by the Quebec legislature in the late 1980s has significantly diminished public respect in the rest of the country for Section 33.