Sentence examples for community has shrunk from inspiring English sources

While the Tata group has grown, the Parsi community has shrunk to an estimated 70,000 people in India.

The Crescent City maintains a black majority, though the community has shrunk since the disaster struck nearly 14 years ago.

The city is inhabited by one of the oldest Christian communities in the world, although the size of the community has shrunk due to emigration.

According to Emily Fuentes, coordinator for Open Doors, an American NGO focusing on persecuted Christians around the world, the Iraqi Christian community has shrunk to 200,000, compared to a million people in 2003.

India has the world's largest population of Parsis, but while they numbered 115,000 in the 1940s, by 2001, the most recent year for which official statistics are available, the community had shrunk to 69,000.

The brouhaha at Morehouse illustrates the degree to which space for this conversation within America's black communities has shrunk under Obama.

Yet it coincides with a spike in anti-Semitism in predominantly Muslim Turkey and a wave of Jews moving away, say members of the aging community, which has shrunk by more than a third in the last quarter century.

Despite NHS plans to shift care out of hospitals, the community nursing workforce has shrunk significantly in the past five years at the same time as the number of nursing posts in hospitals has increased.

By far the most popular motivations were to improve their English and to experience something new.Observers of London's French community do not think the downturn has shrunk its numbers much.

Historically the British community has been smaller, quieter and more ossified than America's; it has shrunk since the 1950s because of ageing and integration.

The community, still the largest in any Muslim country, numbered more than 70,000 before World War II but has shrunk to fewer than 25,000 today.