By no means do I intend to diminish either the sincerity of her service as a career regulator or question her integrity.

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So, before we took our first flight, I devised a plan to divert attention away from the cramped quarters by coming up with an improvisation that I hoped would diminish the backlash.

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The pleasure I feel at having a day with my family and watching their excitement does not diminish the pain I feel at devastation left in the wake of the storm.

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For the broader community, I hope this story will diminish some of the stigma and misperceptions about eating disorders.

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So I don't want to diminish some of the accomplishments that occurred during those eight years.

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They are -- these are individuals whose lives were lost, and they need to be looked at not as -- at least in the first instance, not as how they affect the overall mission, because to say that the mission continues regardless in some ways might diminish the tragedy that their loss represents, and I wouldn't want to do that.

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Mr. PICKER: When I need that money, I'd like to know that whatever I need I can take out of that account and its there without having to diminish it by having to pay taxes on it.

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And I think it's -- to take a step back here -- not to diminish the task that the committee faces, but while it is challenging because of the politics, at a substantive level, it is not that complicated.

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Imagine my surprise when, in the course of an appearance I made last Wednesday on MSNBC's "Hardball, " host Chris Matthews seemed determined to diminish, if not dismiss altogether, this legacy of the Bush 43 presidency.

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