How To Use Shrinking In A Sentence

  • We're currently shrinking the size of technology by a factor of 5.6 per linear dimension per decade, so it is conservative to say that this scenario will be feasible in a few decades.
  • Locked into declining industries and a shrinking public sector, unions have become ineffective. Times, Sunday Times
  • Moving onto land may have been a survival strategy resulting from the need to abandon one shrinking body of water for another .
  • Over 10,000 filar-micrometer and red light CCD measurements of Mars' north polar cap have been taken over the past 40 years, and they show that it has been shrinking. The polar-bears-on-the-melting-ice-cap photo.
  • Our brave front withstood unshrinkingly the heavy fire of rifles and cannon concentrated upon it.
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  • In our ever shrinking world, the short range qualities of shotgun pellets mean we don't need big ranges and lots of space to enjoy our sport.
  • They were shrinking back from the basement door.
  • The yellow book has seen taxpayers, rather than companies, bear the cost of redundancies as shrinking budgets have shut defence factories across the country. Times, Sunday Times
  • Civic and church leaders are turning to downtown businesses for help in replacing shrinking government resources.
  • One thing is for sure - the interest in the manband won't be shrinking any time soon, unlike some other appendages. The Sun
  • Fading from mag -2.6 to -2.4 and shrinking in diameter from 43 to 39 arcsec during the month, it is conspicuous near the Moon on the 2nd and again on the 30th. Starwatch: The January night sky
  • Japan suffers from tepid economic growth, draconian immigration policies and a shrinking population.
  • The world's supply of agricultural land is shrinking fast.
  • As I've said before, peak oil isn't a problem if the economy it's powering is shrinking. Jeffrey Rubin: Tightening Oil Markets Will Bring the Speculators Back
  • The man drew on his cigarette and exhaled, his porcine eyes shrinking to pinpricks as they fixed themselves on Abel. AMAGANSETT
  • So far the bank levy has failed to reach this target because of shrinking bank balance sheets. Times, Sunday Times
  • Poor dear good old Gwynne, tender, sensitive, shrinking, with the face of a seraph and the heart of a maid. Kempton-Wace Letters
  • Pour non-shrinking cement, preserve moisture for 15 days and measure data, and perform the acceptance inspection.
  • The Anglican Church of Canada is shrinking faster than a haemorrhoid in an argon laser. 2010 April « Anglican Samizdat
  • The push was dogged by rising costs, shrinking stockbroking fees and volatile markets. Samsung Securities, Daiwa Cut Jobs in Asia
  • Scotland is facing a serious future skills gap with an ageing and shrinking working population, according to a new study.
  • These are not wild or bitter rebels nor the usual suspects, but MPs who see how out-of-touch and directionless the shrinking number of decision-makers at the top have become.
  • Oil prices rose by more than $1 a barrel after government data showed shrinking supplies of crude, gasoline and heating oil. Times, Sunday Times
  • Developments in sub-machine guns since 1945 have concentrated on bringing them closer to assault rifles and shrinking them in size.
  • Shrinking electronic or mechanical systems further, he says, will inevitably require new paradigms involving quantum theory.
  • The overall beer market has been shrinking for the last 20 years, making it extremely difficult for brewers to create sustainable growth without cannibalising their existing UK brands.
  • Nucor, a steel maker, maintains double-digit growth in an industry that has been shrinking.
  • That is partly a reflection of the small and shrinking audience for short-wave radio broadcasts in China and the recognition that the Internet and smartphones offer a potentially cheaper way to reach more people, despite fears of Chinese-government control of the Web. U.S. Plans to Lower Its 'Voice' in China
  • Second, white all fish populations take a hit in their rapidly shrinking world during a drought, the smaller, omnivorous species may bounce back explosively afterward; the mosquito fish, for example, can breed every three months.
  • New entrants have a shrinking sales pool to swim in – and News International can't launch a bragging, soaraway Sun on Sunday without looking crass and cynical. News of the World scandal: God's newspaper executive less than visionary
  • In the early 1960s one result of shrinking cinema audiences was the Sunday double bill of low budget horror movies.
  • But if anything's clear after examining the life of the Pulitzer prizewinning author of The Color Purple, it's that she's no shrinking violet. Alice Walker: On Finding Your Bliss Interview by Evelyn C. White
  • Students who are limited by their own national boundaries today are like the handloom weavers in an era of industrialization: they may still have a role to play, but it will be in an ever-shrinking one. Stacie Nevadomski Berdan: MBA Programs Must Deliver Grads Ready for Global Careers
  • But it would also entail shrinking the banks to maximise profits. Times, Sunday Times
  • ARCTIC FOX: As temperatures rise, the Arctic fox's tundra and sea-ice habitat is shrinking, its lemming prey are becoming less abundant, and it faces increased competition and displacement by the red fox, which is moving northward. YubaNet.com
  • It refers to the resurgence of manufacturing during the 1980s and the mistaken but widespread belief that manufacturing is still shrinking.
  • Dana told us she has been responding well to treatment, and her tumor is shrinking.
  • Mainly apply to shrinking label film on polyester bottle.
  • Such accountants may then find that they have shrinking roles and power within the corporation.
  • If URL shrinking is your thing, check out our Hive Five Best URL Shrinkers for a comparison of address helpers. Untiny Reveals The Destination In Shortened URLs | Lifehacker Australia
  • However, the downside is that the laminate may separate from the wood because the particle board responds to temperature and pressure changes by swelling and shrinking.
  • Unable to find jobs, many will instead enlist to fight new wars overseas for the world's shrinking oil supply, while savvier nations reap the benefits of alternative energy. Will Bunch: Palin, Beck, the Tea Party and the Big Lie About Saving "Children and Grandchildren"
  • Hungary may have to lower its hopes of shrinking its state sector.
  • With the shrinking dollar and unfavorable exchange rates, the Astra is a rather expensive car to build overseas and import here. Lifting the hood on the Saturn Astra
  • The department store chain is giving up a well-located outlet in its bid to compete in the shrinking department store retailing world.
  • She was my grand-daughter, and what's bred in the bone ... oh, but she'd hocussed me properly, playing shrinking Purity, and I'd been ready to shell out half my fortune - and I'd come within an ace of committing murder for her. Watershed
  • Life here is shrinking, the horizons drawing in, and the backdrop to our small world seems to be fading and becoming indistinct.
  • But old habits die hard, and Apple has shown a proclivity to chase market share while hand-wringing over shrinking gross margins.
  • The rest of his body was almost all wolf, though his feet - his hind paws - were still shrinking, and his tail was little more than a stub.
  • Three thousand Opel workers lost their jobs at that time, shrinking the workforce from 12,000 to 9,000.
  • Decongestants: These ease congesting by shrinking blood vessels and decreasing blood flow to the sinus passages, which allows mucus to flow more freely. Docs: Early treatment combats allergies best
  • Villagers rushed to the aid of the crash victims, not shrinking from the carnage that confronted them.
  • The department has been shrinking year by year because of budget cuts.
  • The team also suggests that the star is shrinking from being a bright cool giant to a faint hot subdwarf. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
  • But the greatest impact has come through global warming, with successive editions of the atlas showing shrinking ice fields and evaporating lakes.
  • Bulgaria has remained in the group of the poorest European nations, consumption is shrinking, the living standards of the majority of Bulgarians has remained unimproved, and this creates social tensions, the President said.
  • From the shrinking snowpack of Western Washington through the unseasonable fog and heat of California to the drought of Baja, something was up with the climate, and people were rattled.
  • I can't imagine why a dynamic young woman like her is marrying a shrinking violet like him.
  • For each time Republican administrations have cut taxes in the name of shrinking government, this has instead shifted wealth from the lower and middle income classes to the top income brackets, which lowers the overall demand for goods and services. Harlan Green: Starving the Beast of Government Starves U.S.
  • Although private equity investment in many countries was already shrinking amid fears of a global recession, it has now fallen off a cliff.
  • Shrinking numbers Falling birthrates and statistical ambiguities aside, there has none the less been a major exodus.
  • What Sayre admired was not some vague nobility that she found among the London exiles, but their unshrinking and ongoing commitment to radical goals.
  • Shrinking ballparks, postage-stamp strike zones, rocket-fueled baseballs and laboratory-powered hitters are just a few factors.
  • I believe that we have great opportunities to create 'contemporary decoration that is part of our digital and information age, part of our shrinking borderless world, and part of our new movement of individualism, casualism, and spiritualism. Information aesthetics
  • Onlookers were struck by her shrinking waistline and claimed the British beauty had been slimming. The Sun
  • If financial gain and civic betterment are mutually exclusive, the shrinking capital worth of a diminished investment must be gloriously virtuous indeed.
  • For example, kinship practices that once favored partible inheritance may be collectively reformulated to favor primogeniture in response to shrinking land allotments and population growth.
  • As more service jobs are offshored, however, that surplus is shrinking rapidly too, declining from $90 billion to $60 billion over the past seven years.
  • In the shrinking light, I imagine brontosaurs lumbering up the hillsides and an orange pterodactyl soaring above me. Down and Delirious in Mexico City
  • The market for their products is shrinking.
  • August is the dry season, and wildlife concentrates around the shrinking waterholes of this vast floodplain. Times, Sunday Times
  • Amid the focus on the shrinking of deposit account returns, scant attention has been paid to the charges on overdrafts. Times, Sunday Times
  • The union, meanwhile, says the postal service's approach of slashing expenses and shrinking operations would only further threaten the agency's chances of long-term survival by hurting service, which the union says would drive away customers and would ultimately dismantle the agency and heavily damage the U.S. mailing industry, which the postal service says generates $1 trillion each year in revenue. Union Seeks Role In Postal Revamp
  • An influential player on the American singer/songwriting scene, Ani Di Franco is no shrinking violet.
  • Haldol has been documented in shrinking peoples brains which you know is called iatrogenic illness. Help Wanted: Psychiatrist
  • Amid the focus on the shrinking of deposit account returns, scant attention has been paid to the charges on overdrafts. Times, Sunday Times
  • Suddenly the country's and the world's biggest English newspaper has others in the media shrinking from association with it.
  • In the shrinking modern world, the relationship between sport and war seems to be getting closer.
  • She recalled his shrinking from the boys, and his hasty refusal to go to the homestead. A Little Bush Maid
  • Parking spaces seem to be shrinking. Times, Sunday Times
  • In my understanding, this kind of dyeing must be done with very hot water (on top of the stove), and you run a risk of the fabric felting, twisting, or shrinking.
  • He smashed a disruptor pulse into the solido projector, and the starship image shivered, shrinking down to a beautiful, naked young girl with blonde hair that hung halfway down her back. The Dreaming Void
  • The cowhide was accordingly produced, and the Rev.Mr. C., a large and very stout man, applied it 'manfully' on 'woman's' bare and 'shrinking flesh.' American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses
  • Schoolboys cannot understand that this shrinking from danger (I speak of palpable danger), which they call cowardice, nearly always emanates from a superior intellect. The Channings
  • None of them is a shrinking violet. Times, Sunday Times
  • And as a bondmaid steals away from a wealthy house, whom fate has lately severed from her native land, nor yet has she made trial of grievous toil, but still unschooled to misery and shrinking in terror from slavish tasks, goes about beneath the cruel hands of a mistress; even so the lovely maiden rushed forth from her home. The Argonautica
  • In the lowlands of Ecuador, Jivaro warriors traditionally used infusions of guayusa to purify themselves and their families before shrinking the heads of their slain enemies. One River
  • Therefore, will he use all the influence of his Department to expand the shrinking manufacturing base of Britain?
  • The numbers of people on Earth will grow at an ever-diminishing rate, level off, then begin shrinking.
  • It shows that if you maintain equalisation which is provided for in the Constitution and a Canadian icon, if you maintain payments to seniors, if the UI programme works more or less as it has in the past, and if you make reasonable assumptions about interest rates and a recession two or three years down the road, you find, the federal government driven to shrinking its programme transfers for health and social services to the provinces, to zero. Thirty Million Musketeers
  • All of which suggests that the question of how far voters truly want to venture in shrinking government will be the crux of the debate in the new Congress — and in the next presidential campaign, as President Obama seeks another term. Unaligned Voters Tilt Rightward En Masse
  • So I avoided their looks, shrinking close to the curbstone and by furtive glances directing my progress. The Dignity of Dollars
  • It is characterized by the appearance of numerous disseminated, freckle-like pigment-spots, telangiectases, atrophied muscles, more or less shrinking and contraction of the integument, and followed, in most instances, by epitheliomatous tumors and ulceration, and finally death. Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine
  • Our shoestring budgets are shrinking further. Times, Sunday Times
  • It did not gaze at the shrinking couple in astoundment. No. 13 Washington Square
  • Radio playlists have been shrinking and TV stations are playing fewer videos.
  • Michael, who was so large his GP's scales could not weigh him, has lost almost 20 inches from his waist - and he's still shrinking.
  • While in this new valuation he still retains the character of a disputatious, puritanical polemist, erratic in conduct, surly in manner, irascible in temper, biting in speech, it invests him with a shrinking reluctance to adopt any action however radical without the approval of the congregation or its accredited representatives. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
  • Representing the O'Hara Foundation in Britain, improbably, is a spoiled, bratty young girl, Scarlett O'Hara (?!?), who spends most of her time being obnoxious or putting the moves on Ray, who proves to be quite the shrinking violet ( my voice-over is being done by a woman, okay? Archive 2007-11-01
  • We then have to cope with the far more long-lasting effects of shrinking economic activity. Times, Sunday Times
  • Locked into declining industries and a shrinking public sector, unions have become ineffective. Times, Sunday Times
  • They outcompete, outperform and outbreed the local population, forcing them into ever-shrinking ghettos. Times, Sunday Times
  • Leicester Square which is a centre of attraction to indifferent foreign hotels and indifferent foreigners, racket – courts, fighting – men, swordsmen, footguards, old china, gaming – houses, exhibitions, and a large medley of shabbiness and shrinking out of sight. Bleak House
  • This brevity is also in the service of the story, the ever shrinking life of the protagonist and this in turn accomplishes a feat which wouldn't otherwise be possible in another mode of fiction. MIND MELD: Memorable Short Stories to Add to Your Reading List (Part 1 of 2)
  • The report says that boys and girls attending school at the primary level is shrinking around the world.
  • ProBlogger thinks that quality outbounds probably reflect back on the blog from whence they come, which had never even crossed my mind, and makes me wonder whether wrapping all your outbounds in a blogroll & shrinking them to one line of code does you harm when the robots come.... Archive 2005-08-01
  • In his unfertile imagination, he could see the Earth rapidly shrinking in the distance behind them.
  • SIEGEL: At the same time it ` s doing that, it ` s shrinking testes, which is one of the reasons he may have been on testosterone. CNN Transcript Jul 5, 2007
  • Taking estrogen can feminize appearance by increasing breast size, shrinking testicles, rounding the hips and reducing facial and body hair.
  • But as the shrinking demand for classical recordings, or a glutted market, led to a marked decline in sales, and recording costs continued high, labels started dropping orchestras one by one. NSO back on the record -- or CD
  • Ordinarily, we can cope with fallibility by shrinking the likelihood of a mistake.
  • A shrinking public sector is thus facing increasing demands from displaced home owners. Home-ownership - differentiation and fragmentation
  • The burner is our vision to move beyond LEO and I pray those with insight will make the right decisions and listen to our national treasure of engineers and scientists in an ever shrinking pool. Confusion over "The Pentagon's Rockets" - NASA Watch
  • proof the materials against shrinking in the dryer
  • Among the additions are special fillers, drilling, etching, flaring, flanging, retractable coiling, shrinking over mandrels, light product assembly, scoring, and slitting.
  • Their interest sprung from the hope that in this ever-shrinking world, our diversity could be a source of strength, a cause for celebration; and that with sustained work and determination, we could learn to live and prosper together during the fleeting moment we share on this Earth. Sports
  • But it would also entail shrinking the banks to maximise profits. Times, Sunday Times
  • Yet I believe the exit polls have the white Catholic vote shrinking from more than one-third of the population to less than one-quarter.
  • Although there were few visible signs of inflation, the pool of available workers was shrinking, and this could not continue indefinitely without sparking rising prices. DOT.CON
  • Is it any wonder that Union membership is shrinking and Union Leaders are now jumping ship onto the lifeboats called Parliaments, State, Federal and Local?
  • In addition, "Smart shrinking" is the term Drake Bennett of the Boston Globe recently used to describe creative urban planning that embraces shrinking cities. Ginna Kelly: Sprawl and Cappuccino Cowboys
  • In the Rydberg system, instead of shrinking the lattice constant to make the atoms overlap, you can simply increase the size of the atom by increasing its excitation.
  • These have not had measurable success in the past and do not address the complexities of the present problem: a shrinking and inadequately educated workforce, coupled with a rapidly growing "nonproductive" older population, a persistent and intractable high school dropout rate, and the skyrocketing cost of higher education. Bernard Starr: How Seniors can save American Education and the Economy
  • Old systems for protecting them are collapsing, and shrinking incomes increase the incentive to sell them.
  • I'm afraid the New Yorker isn't alone in shrinking, my husband has been saying the same thing about Time Magazine, which I never read (I'd rather be knitting and ignorant!). Jean's Knitting
  • It appeared as a blot against the pale blue sky, shrinking steadily until it vanished completely.
  • Competition for college places is shrinking the advantage that legacy status confers.
  • After all, a shrinking readership does not always imply a decrease in stature.
  • Mail deliveries are shrinking by 2.5% a year and this trend could increase if more companies and consumers turn to electronic alternatives. Times, Sunday Times
  • But it would also entail shrinking the banks to maximise profits. Times, Sunday Times
  • She sat down beside him on the old bench and looked unshrinkingly in his face.
  • Not bad for a mid-size player in a rapidly shrinking industry.
  • As I crossed the interminable length of floor that separated me from the door I could feel that contemptuous smile rowelling my shrinking vertebræ. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-02-04
  • News organisations now rely on a shrinking number of sources in Iraq, including the news syndicates and wire services that have local bureaux operating there all the time.
  • The theatre over, Mr. George comes across the water again and makes his way to that curious region lying about the Haymarket and Leicester Square which is a centre of attraction to indifferent foreign hotels and indifferent foreigners, racket-courts, fighting - men, swordsmen, footguards, old china, gaming-houses, exhibitions, and a large medley of shabbiness and shrinking out of sight. Bleak House
  • Colleges of Agriculture have drawn from a historically shrinking agrarian population base.
  • Global reef cover is already shrinking by 1 per cent annually. Times, Sunday Times
  • And layoffs in the newsroom and shrinking budgets leave few resources available for enterprise reporting.
  • They have prepared themselves unshrinkingly to meet and firmly to sustain any conflict in which this declaration may involve them.
  • For months growth has been shrinking on the models of economic forecasters. Times, Sunday Times
  • Chris Christie and the mayors of Trenton and Newark last month in what she called a "robust discussion to be creative in an era of shrinking resources. Camden, N.J., to rehire 50 police, 15 firefighters
  • But being a member of a shrinking minority can feel like being left out in the cold. Times, Sunday Times
  • The pirate took a small step back, shrinking into himself as if he wanted nothing more than to disappear.
  • Economic shrinking has finally been overpassed now.
  • Rather than working hard to establish her own niche, she borrows inward, trying to be as anonymous as possible, a decision that destines her for an underwhelming prep-school life of shrinking expectations.
  • But old habits die hard, and Apple has shown a proclivity to chase market share while hand-wringing over shrinking gross margins.
  • Most fascinating are the unshrinking encounters with frontline workers. Times, Sunday Times
  • The shrinking of the last part to become solid is further shown by the collapse of the surface of the ingot where weakest; that is, a furrow is formed on the flat surface. A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.
  • It must be assumed that the crust in following downwards the shrinking subcrustal magma, develops immense compressive stresses in The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays
  • Here in Minnesota, we've seen some harbingers of spring too, albeit on a slower schedule - slush in the streets, dirty cars, shrinking snowpiles.
  • If that number's shrinking, how can you predict a larger sales number when we saturate most of the market already?
  • I have been trying to work up to sewing some clothing for quite awhile since I still have 45 yards of silk noil waiting and much of my current wardrobe is strangely shrinking. Archive 2007-06-07
  • They outcompete, outperform and outbreed the local population, forcing them into ever-shrinking ghettos. Times, Sunday Times
  • Only the topmost branches were still gilded by daylight, the illuminated areas shrinking as the sun dropped below the misty horizon.
  • Awful, hanging ringlets... I have a horrible shrinking fear of being approached, touched by them...' Shrinking fear. SEA MUSIC
  • At present, market entry is relatively quiet period, shrinking organize obvious trend.
  • The Proteus was a shrinking dot now, smaller, smaller, down to the barest edge of sight. Fantastic Voyage
  • Not savvy in the details of laundry, he threw Sue's favorite wool sweaters in with the underwear shrinking them to peewee size. Pam Grout: Skating With the Stars Gives New Life to Ugly Christmas Sweaters
  • With the ice cap melting and glaciers shrinking, the future of the human race is not looking good. Times, Sunday Times
  • I smiled faintly and got off of the bed, shrinking away from him and pulling my hand through the knots in my hair.
  • If it sounds far off, consider the growing number of startups now racing to capitalize on rising fuel costs, increased congestion, shrinking budgets, and advances in technology that could make ridesharing more convenient. Josie Garthwaite: New and Next Big Things in Ridesharing
  • Mediaset is also struggling with a still-shrinking audience for its free-to-air channels, as well as dwindling advertising revenue in a stagnant economy. Mediaset Is Hit in Italy's Turmoil
  • But being a member of a shrinking minority can feel like being left out in the cold. Times, Sunday Times
  • Instead of attacking popular federal social programs, the idea is to kill them off by shrinking the size of government.
  • By shrinking the size of the transistors and other features etched into the silicon, more of the tiny devices can be squeezed onto a single chip.
  • The trend is bad news for businesses in the eurozone 's periphery, shrinking credit supply just when it is most needed to fuel growth. Times, Sunday Times
  • In our ever shrinking world where journeys that once took days or weeks now takes hours, where we can communicate with people virtually anywhere in the world via e-mail or facsimile, the idea that we should all fortify ourselves in our racially exclusive laagers is ridiculous. Is That Legal?: Fundraising Through Falsehood at VDare.com
  • But as the borders of colonialism receded, R & D receded with them, shrinking to match the footprint of the consumer market.
  • With a shrinking amount of money people are, in terms of the monetary system, 'no longer able to earn anything'; they have to 'economise' or activities will be discontinued due to the financier or other lenders because 'obligations can no longer be met.' Indymedia Ireland
  • ‘Another reason the apiculture industry here is shrinking so fast is because some bee farmers are unwilling to accept physical hardship as they did before,’ he said.
  • (Hey, did you know the Y chromo is shrinking - so to speak? Think Progress » Bolton: ‘This is Put Up or Shut Up Time For Iran,’ Unilateral Military Action Is ‘On The Table’
  • And as California gets "bluer," good workers and businesses leave the state, further shrinking the tax base and crushing the state budget. Political Animal
  • The unbridgeable gap between old and new is shrinking.
  • We need to show that what we care about is our children having as good a chance in life as possible, that we are not shrinking from people with disabilities.
  • By shrinking the size of the transistors and other features etched into the silicon, more of the tiny devices can be squeezed onto a single chip.
  • In this company, the potted venison and wild boar terrine was a shrinking violet.
  • Many of the small and shrinking group of health researchers in Pakistan work in a state of perpetual despondency, frequently with little access to policymakers and planners.
  • And he said that while Irish furniture was generally very well made, ‘the market for cabinetry and old-fashioned upholstery is shrinking in the UK’.
  • Shrinking in size as they swagger into the distance, they are no longer armed cowpunchers.
  • Foreign debts and budget deficits have been shrinking. Times, Sunday Times
  • I can't imagine why a dynamic young woman like her is marrying a shrinking violet like him.
  • It meant Theo's nerve cells were shrinking and atrophying, the ones in the cortex of his brain, and deeper down in the basal ganglia. FLIGHT LESSONS
  • With the shrinking cost and widening range of mobile phones, its services were quickly rendered obsolete.
  • The Cold War is over: the strategic forces of the superpowers are standing down while their nuclear arsenals are shrinking dramatically.
  • I can't imagine why a dynamic young woman like her is marrying a shrinking violet like.
  • He has been a steadfast supporter of balanced budgets and shrinking the size of government.
  • The world may indeed be shrinking and its people becoming an undifferentiated morass, but east of the Oder-Neisse line they are not quite the same as us just yet. Stick to buying perfume and forget about kids, Sir Elton
  • I can't imagine why a dynamic young woman like her is marrying a shrinking violet like.
  • The net-net here is that the available pool of credit for housing is shrinking. U.S. Gambles With Mortgage Retreat
  • As the tissue is heated, triple helical molecules rewind, shrinking the collagen fibers.
  • Economic shrinking has finally been overpassed now.
  • Rather than helping major record labels adjust to the changing market, it continually, repeatedly and publicly destroyed its own reputation and the reputation of the labels -- each time shrinking their potential market by blaming the very people they should have been working to turn into customers. Techdirt
  • We've stabilized the economy; an economy that's was shrinking is now growing. Jon Stewart Puts Obama in the Hot Seat During Daily Show Interview
  • Civic and church leaders are turning to downtown businesses for help in replacing shrinking government resources.
  • And as these labels proliferate to envelop just about every piece of unconventional childhood behavior, our view of what is normal is shrinking. You’re a Better Parent Than You Think!
  • We are in a shrinking market as colleges and universities downsize their agricultural faculties.
  • Full of admiration for the splendid organization of the relief work of the Associations and for their brave members who, without shrinking from hardships, untiringly serve the great work of humanity, I desire to express to you as the Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I
  • Then, over the high, exposed moorland road, with a backdrop of hills still decorated by shrinking dollops of snow, the race began to splinter.
  • But it would also entail shrinking the banks to maximise profits. Times, Sunday Times
  • He followed with a montage of euphemisms applied to Rahm by a pantheon of talking heads, who described him as "bombastic" and "brusque," said he "isn't afraid of breaking a little china," and "isn't a shrinking violet. On 'Daily Show,' Stewart Nails Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Politics

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