This might be a manageable cost in a benign economic climate, but it makes it harder for businesses to grow and will diminish their ability to provide new job opportunities.

Yet multiple applications and high outstanding debts diminish your ability to get competitive credit, so spread out card applications.

Since the popeye shiner lives in pristine clear water, any contamination may adversely affect this property and subsequently diminish the ability of these fish to thrive.

But if his eternal perspective improves his personality, it diminishes any ability to take in ambiguity or complexity.

A tactic of bowling full and straight, with a bit of swing and a leg-side field, has made him look technically vulnerable and greatly diminished his ability to score.