In this arrangement the pictures on the screen appear gradually to increase or diminish in size and brightness.
If the aim of the military action is an equivalent for the political object, that action will in general diminish as the political object diminishes, and in a greater degree the more the political object dominates.
There is no reason to fear that the victory will be snatched away, but adverse combats are still possible, and may diminish the advantages which up to the present have been gained.
Its aim was not to increase, but to diminish popular control over the government.
Theoretically, the Constitution could be amended so as to diminish the power of the Senate, but as a matter of fact no change in the Constitution would be more difficult to bring about.
It afterward resumes its downward course, continuing, for the most part, to diminish regularly throughout the remainder of the height observed.
But whether they operate to increase or diminish the trades, and the extent to which they induce violent electric action and storms within and without the tropics, is a question which further observation must determine.
Yet such was his luxury, and his reluctance to diminish his supply, that when he gave entertainments at Bauli, he generally sent to the neighbouring town of Puteoli to buy fish for supper(269).
The symptoms in many instances consisted in great part in transitory signs of the so-called 'radiation' type, such as are seen in destructive lesions where the signs of nervous damage rapidly tend to diminish and localise themselves.
Under the first head the objection is sometimes raised that taxes which appropriated a considerable portion of the larger incomes and inheritances would diminish very materially the social supply of capital.
Instead, it is absorbed in new inventions, new types of machinery, and new processes of production, all of which take the place of labour, thus tending to increase rather than diminish the demand for capital and the rate of interest.
Even though many of the present savers and owners of capital should diminish or discontinue their functions on account of a fall in the rate of interest, a reduction would not necessarily take place in the supply of capital.
He can neither diminish the amount of land in existence nor raise the price of his own.
Now, to prevent and diminish dangerous accumulations of wealth is a social end which is at least as important as most of the objects sought in license taxes.
To diminish greatly the instruments of production, and consequently the supply of goods for consumption, would create far more hardship than it would relieve.
It might withdraw it ordiminish it to its own profit, if their fertility was not judged sufficient for it.
To diminish his profit, and to increase his own, is a wish that he has always at heart, and an object which covertly, and as often as is practicable, he endeavours to pursue.
To diminish these brawls, shortly before the Thirty Years' War, courts of honour were here and there introduced.
For what man will let go, or diminish his private commodity for a commonwealth?
William Gilbert--court physician to Queen Elizabeth, and the Father of modern electricity--that the magnetic properties of iron diminish with heat.
The utmost expense which could be requisite for any of these purposes, would not, in all probability, deprive one labourer of employment, or diminish the next year's production by one ell of cloth or one bushel of grain.
Indeed, he wished to diminish his official distractions rather than to increase them.
And Garuda said, 'Let no creature be afraid; as ye are in a fright at the sight of my terrible form, I shalldiminish my energy.
Farther on the cliffs diminish in height, and are furrowed by numerous streamlets, and the rugged, stony beach changes to smooth, yielding sand.
He also observed that large doses of caffein diminish muscular irritability.
By concessions which enlarge rather than diminish its influence, it puts all right-minded men, soldiers and officers, under the obligation of returning to their allegiance.
I will make a few notes so as to diminish their despair as far as I am able.
What I am now going to relate I should have told you at the beginning of my story, as it would have served to diminish the surprise we felt at finding ourselves endowed with speech.
Unfortunately the result is to an action as the lens through which it is viewed, and the turpitude of the deed seems to increase or diminish according to the effect it produces.
