Indeed the twin demands of pursuing European and domestic glory appear to be stretching Jesus's personnel to their limit, as their once apparently unassailable lead at the top of the Premeira Liga has, almost imperceptibly, dwindled away and they now stand second, one point behind Porto with one game remaining.
Yet with his contract expiring and his days as a Yankee almost certainly dwindling, Wednesday's hit could be his last defining moment in pinstripes.
This year's skirmish between community banks and credit unions will almost certainly dwindle into obscurity, a common fate for special interest legislation.
Professionally, his dreams of academic tenure had been crushed and he was struggling to make a living as a writer at the moment when opportunities for a Jew publishing in Germany were, thanks to Hitler's poisoning of intellectual life, about to dwindle almost to nothing.
In some heavily black districts, Republican totals dwindled almost to zero, and the Democrats took control of the state legislature.
Meanwhile, the Luftwaffe's resistance dwindled almost to nothing as its fighter plane production dropped and most of its remaining trained pilots died in aerial combat.
She hit six aces but 38 unforced errors and her attention span dwindled almost out of sight at times in the opening set.
For want of money, the Roosevelts' house on East 65th Street, later a Hunter College student center, has been sitting empty since 1992 -- ceilings leaking, woodwork moldering, plaster crumbling -- while its remarkable history has dwindled almost to a whisper.
Support for the Conservatives dwindled almost to nothing after their popular candidate resigned.In this section Threats lurk around Chavez Voting the American way Uncoupling Monkey business Laid up Reprints Related items Nicaragua's election: Ortega's return?Oct 25th 2001The result was far from a disgrace for Mr Ortega.
My social contacts had dwindled almost to none; the presence of other people made me nervous and paranoid … ["Astral Weeks"] assumed at the time the quality of a beacon, a light on the far shores of the murk; what's more, it was proof that there was something left to express artistically besides nihilism and destruction.
