Sentence examples for a means of shrinking from inspiring English sources
They also are prepared to raise taxes to introduce more equity into the tax system and as a means of shrinking or eliminating a large budget deficit.
Many see a weaker dollar as an unavoidable means of shrinking the United States trade deficit, which last year exceeded $800 billion.
The arrangement was a fairly common means of shrinking labor costs in the recession of the early 1980s.
In the 19th century, when the cost of moving bulky goods was high, cities were a means to shrink supply chains.
It would mean a world of shrinking advances for authors, missed gems for readers, and a lack of sustainability for publishers.
Instead, the networks have ramped up their development efforts this season — which means additional investment at a time of shrinking profits.
Rising poverty means a shrinking pool of consumers who can help speed economic recovery and drive long-term economic growth.
Fewer permits mean less revenue, and at a time of shrinking budgets, every dollar matters, said Linda Silvestre, a deputy clerk for Mamaroneck, which experienced a decline in tag-sale permits last year to 36, from 50 in 2006, or a loss of $280.
The senator shuns partial privatization -- the Bush plan -- or raising the retirement age or shrinking the annual cost-of-living adjustment as a means of cutting benefit costs.
As technology continues to shrink and the Internet becomes more common as a means of direct distribution of music, some wonder whether cover art will disappear altogether.
Experimental results of the SO2Ca(OH)2 reaction obtained in a laboratory scale fixed-bed reactor under conditions simulating exhausting flue gases from coal-fired plants have been successfully interpreted by means of a shrinking core model with an hyperbolic expression for the influence of gas concentration on the reaction rate.
