Sentence examples for as it shrank from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, by fixing short-term interest rates at near zero, the Fed planted its heavy boot squarely in the face of depositors, as it shrank the banks' cost of production — their interest expense on depositor funds — to the vanishing point.

As it shrank, the city had relatively little new construction compared with many United States cities.

He was glad to escape the ghetto as it shrank, with the people crammed like sardines, and the stench of carbon lamps and sweaty straw mattresses.

The first was after the war in Vietnam, when the draft ended, challenging the military to build an all-volunteer force and keep a edge in quality even as it shrank significantly.

The News Corporation also is laying off hundreds of people as it shrinks its Web activities.

See articleU've Been SackedUBS unveiled more drastic cost-cutting measures, as it shrinks its investment bank to become less capital-intensive and refocus on wealth management.

Beta Pictoris b is still warm and young and over the next hundreds of millions of years, it will cool down and shrink to about the size of Jupiter, and if its angular momentum is preserved then as it shrinks the length of its day will decrease to about 3 hours and its equatorial rotation velocity will speed up to about 40 km per second.

As it shrinks, the stimulating effect of its hormones, progesterone and estrogen, is withdrawn from the endometrium (the lining of the uterus), and menstruation occurs.

Polaris is a "Cepheid variable," a giant star near the end of its life that varies in brightness as it shrinks and swells.

Both "It's Complicated" and "Something's Gotta Give" center on an independent woman whose life, despite all its personal and professional markers, immediately expands — even as it shrinks — once a man starts rocking her bed and head.

As it shrinks, the music industry is becoming ever more adept at controlling what enters the mainstream.