Dwindling Sentence Examples

Hardly half a dozen monasteries survive, inhabited by small and ever dwindling communities.

The impetus of the Austrian attack was dwindling.

The party fears infighting will further dent its dwindling popularity.

So, far from reaching that point the pessimists foretold—where we have exhausted the meager resources of earth and find ourselves dwindling away—something entirely different is happening.

Nevertheless, Howie's funds were dwindling rapidly.

Tanner took a quick nap to replenish his dwindling energy.

A series of heavy combats revealed his Pontefract in 1536, during the Pilgrimage of Grace, the archbishop, and Grant pursued the dwindling remnants of Lee's was compelled to join the rebels, but he did not sympathize with purpose army t o the westward.

Pub grub goes gourmet With a smoking ban looming and beer sales dwindling, pubs are seeking their salvation in food.

In the long run, the robber destroys his own subsistence by dwindling or eliminating the source of his own supply.

Beginning in the 1990's, The Young and The Restless audience began rapidly dwindling.

Supported by only small and dwindling majorities, they saw that it was hopeless to carry the measure, and they decided on placing their resignations in the queens hands.

American Idol producers have been asked to help boost the ratings of the dwindling Primetime Emmy Awards.

Celebrities have started to take notice, and while there will always be smokers among them, their ranks are dwindling.

If you find yourself among the seniors experiencing dwindling retirement funds due to the current economic climate, you have a couple of choices if you plan on a lavish lifestyle in retirement.

But as their numbers grew in the autumn, and as their headquarters staff noted how the invaders were dwindling away owing to transfers to Salonika and to no drafts arriving to replenish wastage, it became possible to keep a number of the Ottoman divisions in reserve, well in rear of the fighting fronts or else on the Asiatic side of the Dardanelles.

Though a few Unionists transferred their allegiance, notably Mr. Winston Churchill, and by-elections went badly, Mr Balfour still commanded a considerable though a dwindling majority, and the various contrivances of the opposition for combining all free-traders against the government were obstructed by the fact that anything tantamount to a vote of censure would not be supported by the "wobblers" in the ministerial party, while the government could always manage to draft some "safe" amendment acceptable to most of them.

The Liberal majority of 44 was already dwindling away, and the malcontents, who considered that Sir William Harcourt should have been the prime minister, or who were perpetually intriguing against a leader who did not satisfy their idea of Radicalism, made Lord Rosebery's personal position no easy one.

The Uzbeg rule in Turkestan has during the last fifty years been rapidly dwindling before the growth of Russian power.

The Stone Age represents the early condition of mankind in general, and has remained in savage districts up to modern times, while the introduction of metals need not at once supersede the use of the old stone hatchets and arrows, which have often long continued in dwindling survival by the side of the new bronze and even iron ones.

All jurisdiction over their lands was vested in them, no new mints or toll-centres were to be erected on their domains, and the imperial authority was restricted to a small and dwindling area.

For fifteen sun-cycles, Anshan women had borne no male children, and drought and dwindling supplies of the ore that made his dhjan wealthy and respected had driven his planet into abject poverty.

An inspector of the board or of the local authority was by the same act authorized to enter premises and examine sheep. Each year the disorder runs a similar course, the outbreaks dwindling to a minimum in the summer months, June to August, and attaining a maximum in the winter months, December to February.

Otherwise you'll find yourself sitting in the middle of gifts, lists, stacks of thank you cards and addresses, and black or blue pens with dwindling ink supplies.

Dwindling magazine sales have all but proven this.Of course, there's good news for magazines, too - their respective Web sites reap the benefits of the avid interest in celebrity life.

Thanks to a number of factors, including online shopping, sample sales and a dwindling economy, prices are much more reasonable.

While some White Stag plus size jeans are still available in limited quantities online, their availability is dwindling.

This year brought a large number of video games for every system, though the number is dwindling due to the impending next-generation systems in 2006.

While some work for professional writers is admittedly dwindling, the Internet has opened up a massive new market for aspiring professional writers.

The adage, 'a blessing in disguise', may not sit well when there are bills to pay and rapidly dwindling funds.

The first novel deals with the machinations and subterfuge with which the First Foundation is formed, and its early history, through its discovery that the Encyclopedia is not its raison d'etre and the dwindling power of the Empire.

Dwindling supplies made surviving the day enough of a challenge without scaling a mountain at night.

Apart from the rivalry of the factions within the Assembly, there was the question of the Mussulman minority, dwindling it is true,' but still a force to be reckoned with.

The monarchical principle was shaken to its foundations by the English revolution of 1688; it was shattered by the French revolution of 1789; and though it survives as a political force, more or less strongly, in most European countries, "monarchists," in the strict sense of the word, are everywhere a small and dwindling minority.

The public support extended to the college of chemistry had been dwindling for some years, and before he left it had ceased to have an independent existence and had been absorbed into the School of Mines.

When a river partakes of the nature of a torrent, dwindling to a paltry stream at one season and swelling into an enormous flood at another, it is impossible to construct a system of irrigation canals without very costly engineering works, sluices, dams, waste-weirs, &c., so as to give the engineer entire control of the water.

By the end of the century, however, its prosperity had sunk owing to the perpetual feud with Mainz, the internecine war in Saxony, and the consequent dwindling of trade.

His policy was sound; peace with France, the rehabilitation of the dwindling foreign trade of England, and the maintenance of law and justice by strong-handed governance were his main aims.

Below this the watershed of the Apennines is too near to the sea on that side to allow the formation of any large streams. Hence the rivers that flow in the opposite direction into the Adriatic and the Gulf of Taranto have much longer courses, though all partake of the character of mountain torrents, rushing down with great violence in winter and after storms, but dwindling in the summer into scanty streams, which hold a winding and sluggish course through the great plains of Apulia.

Even in autocratic regimes, truth has a way of seeping in—which means today's dwindling crop of dictators has a serious problem.