It is as follows: `` The usual sensitivity tests showed that the specific qualities of skin-perceptiveness ( pressure, pain, temperature ), as well as the kinesthetic sensations ( muscular feelings, feelings in the tendons and joints ), were, as such, essentially intact, although they seemed, in comparison with normal reactions, to be somewhat diminished over the entire body.

With Mahoré continuing to gravitate politically and economically toward France, and Comoros increasingly dependent on the French for help with its own considerable social, political, and economic problems, the issue of Mahoré diminished somewhat in urgency.

His relationship with the other partners was somewhat poor, and his role in the leadership of the franchise diminished over time.

During the late 1920s and early 1930s Eisenhower's career in the post war army stalled somewhat, as military priorities diminished ; many of his friends resigned for high-paying business jobs.

Luxembourg, somewhat diminished in size ( as the medieval lands had been slightly reduced by the French and Prussian heirs ), was augmented in another way through the elevation to the status of grand duchy and placed under the rule of William I of the Netherlands.

By the mid-century the initial enthusiasm had somewhat diminished in both countries, although the use of lithography was increasingly favored for commercial applications, which included the great prints of Daumier, published in newspapers.

For example, from 1900 to the 1960s the solar maxima trend of sunspot count has been upward ; from the 1960s to the present, it has diminished somewhat.

Most modern processors have special hardware support for subroutine " call " and " return " instructions, so the overhead of one extra machine instruction per dispatch is somewhat diminished.

Clarence Gilyard remained on, but with the addition to Roebuck to the cast and the character of Cliff Lewis becoming a second private investigator, his role was diminished somewhat.

In addition, the Irish community has diminished somewhat in recent years, but there are still a number of well-supported Irish pubs in the area.

The new series put a much heavier emphasis on big name guest stars as being part of the plot and although the Mertz characters continued into the new series, their roles became somewhat diminished.

OPEC's ability to control the price of oil has diminished somewhat since then, due to the subsequent discovery and development of large oil reserves in Alaska, the North Sea, Canada, the Gulf of Mexico, the opening up of Russia, and market modernization.

Scott's songwriting output at that time may also have been somewhat diminished because he had recently become a father.

Though the emphasis on character building through literary appreciation diminished somewhat after the movement toward utilitarianism following World War I, Herbart ’ s pedagogy continues to influence the field by raising important questions about the role of critical thinking, and literary appreciation in education.

From then on Stettin could be reached directly by ships, and Swinemünde's importance diminished somewhat.

Recent times have seen, directly linked with the economic downturn many of the shops have closed down, predominantly localised, smaller shops leaving the town centre somewhat diminished.

His history ( first published in 1834 ), which deals with the reigns of Charles III and Ferdinand IV ( 1734 – 1825 ), is still the standard work for that period, but it value is somewhat diminished by the authors bitterness against his opponents and the fact that he does not give chapter and verse for his statements, many of which are based on his recollection of documents seen, but not available at the time of writing.

After the occupation of Veracruz, many military personnel received the Medal of Honor, an unusually high number that diminished somewhat the prestige of the award.

The New Republic navy was somewhat diminished as a result.

Nowadays, soaring popularity of home video game consoles have somewhat diminished arcade culture.

However, later events somewhat diminished the luster.

In this way the encomienda somewhat weakened Amerindians ' tribal identification and ethnicity, which in turn diminished the pool of available encomendados.

Wilson was finally confirmed as Secretary of Defense by a Senate vote of 77 to 6, and began his duties in the Pentagon with his standing somewhat diminished by the confirmation debate.

With the advent of Internet social networking services and an increasing acceptance of LGBT people across the Western world, the relevance of gay bars in the LGBT community has somewhat diminished.

While the precepts for monks and nuns differ somewhat depending on which tradition one has ordained in ( Tibetan, Thai Theravadan, etc.

His lyrics with diverse themes, mostly following a somewhat modernized version of the " aşık " ( wandering folk poets ) tradition were heavily marginal in the popular music scene of 1980s which was mostly dominated by love-themed lyrics.

Thus the tradition faded somewhat but was never totally eradicated.

somewhat more than a third of Tongans adhered to the Methodist tradition.

Little else is known about his childhood, although there is a persistent tradition that he was educated by his maternal great-grandfather Jean de St. Rémy — a tradition which is somewhat undermined by the fact that the latter disappears from the historical record after 1504, when the child was only one year old.

The reason for this difference is that these civil law jurisdictions adhere to a tradition that the reader should be able to deduce the logic from the decision and the statutes, so that, in some cases, it is somewhat difficult to apply previous decisions to the facts presented in future cases.

Each game varied somewhat from the tradition it is derived from ; for example, Baba Yaga, a character borrowed from Slavic folklore, first appeared in the first game.

The Whig canon and the neo-Harringtonians, John Milton, James Harrington and Sidney, Trenchard, Gordon and Bolingbroke, together with the Greek, Roman, and Renaissance masters of the tradition as far as Montesquieu, formed the authoritative literature of this culture ; and its values and concepts were those with which we have grown familiar: a civic and patriot ideal in which the personality was founded in property, perfected in citizenship but perpetually threatened by corruption ; government figuring paradoxically as the principal source of corruption and operating through such means as patronage, faction, standing armies ( opposed to the ideal of the militia ), established churches ( opposed to the Puritan and deist modes of American religion ) and the promotion of a monied interest — though the formulation of this last concept was somewhat hindered by the keen desire for readily available paper credit common in colonies of settlement.

Certainly some of the Ugaritic texts and Sanchuniathon report hostility between El and Hadad, perhaps representing a cultic and religious differences reflected in Hebrew tradition also, in which Yahweh in the Tanach is firmly identified with El and might be expected to be somewhat hostile to Baʿal / Hadad and the deities of his circle.

Shrove Tuesday is the last day of " shrovetide ", somewhat analogous to the Carnival tradition that developed separately in countries of Latin Europe.

21st century Ulster Scots shows little adherence to the previous literary tradition and instead an increasing use of somewhat creative phonetic spellings based of perceived sound-to-letter correspondences of Standard English typical of dialect writing or a more esoteric " amalgam of traditional, surviving, revived, changed, and invented features ".

In recent years this tradition has changed somewhat.

This lingual derivation results from the international British maritime tradition ( i. e. chief mate ) dating back to the 14th century and the civilian United States Merchant Marine on which US aviation is somewhat modeled.

In some regions, a somewhat different Maypole tradition existed: the carrying of highly decorated sticks.

An old tradition says it was located at what is now Strandgata 43, but the exact position is somewhat uncertain.

Dee handled the interview with tact, but Kelley is said to have infuriated the nuncio by stating that one of the problems with the Catholic Church is the “ poor conduct of many of the priests .” The nuncio noted in a letter that he was tempted to toss Kelley out of the window ( defenestration was a somewhat common tradition in Prague at the time ).

It is somewhat tongue-in-cheek, and refers to the paleocons ' claim to represent a more historic, authentic conservative tradition than that found in neoconservative.

Despite this convergence, there were distinctions between the liturgies of different parts of the Iberian peninsula: for example the Lisbon and Catalonian rites were somewhat different from the Castilian rite, which formed the basis of the later Sephardic tradition.

These appellations have been somewhat controversial, as both groups considered themselves the true heirs to the Saint Thomas tradition, and saw the other as heretical.

These studio-made laugh tracks were controversial: while Hanna-Barbera's laugh track maintained a balance of laugh intensity, it was extremely limited and unrealistic ; Rankin-Bass ' provided a better selection of laughs, was mostly updated, and somewhat kept the tradition of Douglass ' methods by using mild guffaws to mute out the laughs, but it was too invasive and would oftentimes provide unnecessary placing after even a mild joke.

Although the particulars of the practice changed somewhat, the Hohokam cremation tradition remained dominant until around AD 1300.

As a result, Tendai esoteric ritual bears much in common with the explicitly Vajrayana tradition of Shingon Buddhist ritual, though the underlying doctrines may differ somewhat.

Franco's view of Spanish tradition was somewhat artificial and arbitrary: while some regional traditions were suppressed, Flamenco, an Andalusian tradition, was considered part of a larger, national identity.