| He did not know that a man's character dwindles into pusillanimity and cowardice, when, he is evirated by an operation totally different. |
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| Although Merlis' prose remains as fluid as quicksilver, the narrative thrust progressively dwindles as Joel's quixotic journey nears its end. |
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| Finally, as the surplus dwindles, the government will pay off less of the national debt. |
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| My lifeforce dwindles as she sips from the fountain of knowledge when she should be drinking in great drafts. |
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| These atrocities are despoiling our people and our paradise as hope dwindles. |
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| As government funding dwindles and the competition for charitable donations heats up, several facilities have turned to corporations and exchanged naming rights for cash. |
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| As her 63 percent lead dwindles to a still respectable 56 or 55 percent next summer, she and her campaign advisers may suddenly feel the need to do something. |
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| In fact, it could backfire on us if customer satisfaction dwindles as a result. |
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| Everyone is in favour, yet when it comes to specific initiatives, the support base dwindles very quickly. |
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| Sooner or later, we find, the flow of benefits dwindles, and it is then time to shift paradigms and undergo a transformation. |
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| Evidence suggests that the number of women representatives dwindles towards higher levels of the hierarchy. |
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| What would be required of us in the next five, 10, or 20 years as the demand for fossil fuels grows and supply dwindles? |
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| Membership in a diaspora group is not static and can fluctuate as the interest of individuals in their homeland grows or dwindles. |
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| As insulin secretion dwindles, the usual checkand-balance on glucagon weakens. |
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| Love is not only about sensual pleasures, but it is also about a spiritual and intellectual togetherness, otherwise desire dwindles away. |
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| There is a risk that the SEP program loses so much critical knowledge that program effectiveness dwindles below acceptable levels. |
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| While the importance of cooking on an everyday basis dwindles, many people spend longer in the kitchen at the weekend to make up for this trend. |
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| The net effect of this is that as consent to treat dwindles, so does the theoretical benefit. |
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| As he strummed the song, with its hushed chorus that dwindles into a whisper by the end, the crowd knew it was one of those special cliched moments. |
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| The price will probably keep going up as supply slowly dwindles. |
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| It will not be long before the enemy must retreat into a continuous perimeter, as his manpower dwindles to the point where a mobile defense is no longer viable. |
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| So al-Qaeda may well recover in months, not years, after we depart Afghanistan if the pressure on its base in Pakistan dwindles. |
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| With Parkinson's, however, these special nerve cells break down, the supply of dopamine dwindles, and movement is affected. |
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| Now, if public support dwindles with viewership, PBS could slowly starve. |
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| After the summer, the racing scene along the Long Island Sound dwindles to a few select clubs that have frostbiting fleets. |
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| With the potato chip, you have solid salt crystals at the surface of the chip that give you an immediate salt hit that dwindles very quickly. |
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| Once you reach a certain age, your appreciation of what is appropriate for a teenage girl dwindles to almost nothing. |
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| Even as the population dwindles, churches are thriving, with congregations spilling out on to the streets. |
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| Pedestrian activity along Sparks Street declines significantly west of Bank Street, where the amount of at-grade retail dwindles. |
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| Without the opportunity to live up to his fullest possibilities a worker shrinks and dwindles. |
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| This is becoming more important as the capability of states alone to shield and order their inner social and political processes dwindles. |
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| The picture of sleep, dreams, loving security and perhaps a gentle melancholy dwindles, the idyllic gives way to a painful drama in the development, to return again to elegiac lyricism shortly before the recapitulation. |
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| As attention on the plight of Zimbabweans dwindles and even the rains desert their troubled land, they can only hope that their wheelbarrows will again be full of food one day soon. |
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| Saruman, though, becomes morally diminished, and his character dwindles to the merely novelistically malevolent. |
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| Even worse, the potential dwindles and is exhausted while performance is imposed and experienced as external to the system, which then begins to malfunction with increasing severity. |
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| Little by little roads are encroaching and the MNR now has to play referee while the value of remoteness dwindles he says. |
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| As the population in Cape Breton ages and youth leave to seek employment elsewhere, the capacity of communities to provide support services for the aged dwindles, even as the number of seniors who need them grows. |
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| Consuela, never fully alive to begin with, dwindles into literary device. |
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| Around the time of Spain's discovery of South America, Antillia dwindles substantially in size on Behaim's globe and later charts. |
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| As the most accessible resources are exhausted, the supply dwindles. |
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| If private demand for dollars dwindles too fast, he expects the same thing to happen again. China, in particular, has little to gain from a dollar crash. |
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| Its amount varies according to the investor's age: expected lifetime income from work is high when investors are young and dwindles to nothing at retirement. |
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| They are taken from a low orbital flight, and although they show the surface of the planet at a considerable remove, you are not at such a distance that the earth dwindles to a nervous-making tininess. |
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| All guess-work exploits shrivel up a good yard, or sometimes two, when brought to the measure, and the champion of the county dwindles into a clumsy clod-hopper. |
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| The larger the empire, the more dwindles the mind of the citizen. |
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| Muslims are also concentrated in other regions, however, and secessionist feelings may emerge there if the proportion of these regions' Russian inhabitants dwindles. |
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| If the balance of a portfolio in an MMF dwindles too steeply, it makes it hard for an asset management company to go on managing MMFs, they warned. |
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