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The Solem case established a "diminishment doctrine" that U.S. courts could use when evaluating whether diminishment had taken place. [2] In the 1994 case Hagen v. Utah, 510 U.S. 399 (1994), the Supreme Court held that Congress's 1902 Act had diminished the Uintah Reservation. [3] The Court applied its doctrine established in the Solem case.
A diminished interval is an interval obtained from a minor interval or perfect interval by narrowing it by a chromatic semitone, meaning that the interval is narrowed by a semitone, but the staff positions are not changed (only an accidental is changed); the process may occasionally be referred to as diminution For example, a diminished sixth ...
Diminished capacity is a partial defense to charges that require that the defendant act with a particular state of mind. [1] For example, if the felony murder rule does not apply, first degree murder requires that the state prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant acted with premeditation, deliberation, and the specific intent to kill—all three are necessary elements of the state's ...
An example would be a factory increasing its saleable product, but also increasing its CO 2 production, for the same input increase. [2] The law of diminishing returns is a fundamental principle of both micro and macro economics and it plays a central role in production theory .
After car accidents, the right to claim diminution in value depends on the country or state [2] and who is at fault. [3]Major car rental companies do charge their renters for diminished value after accidents, unless the renter pays for a Damage waiver (Avis, [4] Budget, [5] National, [6] Thrifty [7]).
In geometry, a diminished trapezohedron is a polyhedron in an infinite set of polyhedra, constructed by removing one of the polar vertices of a trapezohedron and replacing it by a new face (diminishment). It has one regular n-gonal base face, n triangle faces around the base, and n kites meeting on top.
In total this winter, the A’s have nearly doubled the money they’ve allocated to players under guaranteed salaries, from $25.6 million in 2024 to a projected $49.1 million ahead of 2025.
Clipping differs from abbreviation, which is based on a shortening of the written, rather than the spoken, form of an existing word or phrase. Clipping is also different from back-formation, which proceeds by (pseudo-)morpheme rather than segment, and where the new word may differ in sense and word class from its source. [2]