Upkeep on the aging structure, combined with diminishing audiences and financing for the nonprofit theater, had made it "tough to make ends meet," he said.
The economic downturn that began in March 2000, followed by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, combined to diminish drastically the sales of airplane tickets, and thus the need for planes.
Inertia, combined with diminishing research funding, declining new academic positions, combined with disruptive and emerging competitive adjacent domains have a heavy toll on the field and its attractiveness for talented faculty members and students.
Development of public transport systems in large cities combined with diminishing role of the private car can serve as a reference point for government policy development.
Keynes was then a neo-Malthusian, alarmed lest growing world population and demand for food, combined with diminishing returns to scale in agriculture, would make agricultural produce more costly in terms of industrial products, to the disadvantage of industrial countries such as Britain.
Starbird has also acknowledged that, in hindsight, rapidly increasing project costs, combined with diminishing construction quality, should have served as a warning sign.
Although the fire continued to creep westward within the national forest, officials said low winds and cool weather -- which included light rain and a dusting of snow near Frazier Park -- had combined to diminish any threat to Ojai or Santa Paula.
The growth of the graduate and research programs combined with diminishing federal support for universities in the 1980s led President John Patrick Crecine to restructure the university in 1988 amid significant controversy.
In sum, all these provisions would combine to diminish the influence of money in the American political system.
So far as consumers are concerned, on the other hand, the Internet is largely a bundle of services that duplicates and partially substitutes for others that already existed: television, snail-mail, newspapers, and so forth.In addition, other factors may combine to diminish the improvements in productivity you might have supposed the Internet would cause.
