As transportation improved, poverty in London diminished, and street lighting made for safer travel at night, the number of potential patrons for the growing number of theatres increased enormously.

Our poverty does not diminish our pride.

Many of you will have to find part-time work to pay your way; some will find that poverty diminishes the educational experience.

In the 19th and 20th centuries, poverty combined with landgrabbing by Wervershoof also diminished the village.

With the exception of Chile, poverty is not diminishing.

Chapman's resultant poverty did not diminish his ability or his standing among his fellow Elizabethan poets and dramatists.

The situation is quite good in the EU generally, but at the same time poverty is not diminishing. Rather it is increasing, and, just as others have said, a great many of those affected are women and children.