Sentence examples for contributed to shrinking from inspiring English sources

That has, in turn, contributed to shrinking supplies and rising prices for wheat.

Emigration has contributed to a shrinking population, and communities have emerged in more industrialized nations in the second half of the 20th century.

This trend contributed to the shrinking size and increasing age of the state's rural population.

The book argues that ossified labor law has contributed to the shrinking union density of the U.S., where less than 7percentt of private-sector workers now belong to a union.

Factories extracting minerals from the lake have also contributed to its quickly shrinking shores.

Like many middle-class housewives here, she started a business to contribute to the shrinking family budget.

Rising prices for the skins and contentions that the growing seal population is contributing to a shrinking codfish population have eased the revival of an industry once roundly seen as barbaric.

"If you're a small company, the risk is very high," she noted, before pointing out that rising wages in China are contributing to a shrinking gap between products crafted in Asia and in North America.

The book entry for this began as hopeful prognostication about AR's potential before taking a sharp turn into caution about the other side of the coin where AR contributes to the "shrinking world of personal privacy".

The suggestion is motivated, no doubt, by a sense of justice — that the very rich, who have survived the financial crisis very well, should contribute more to shrinking public coffers to reduce the spending cuts that would hurt the most vulnerable.

Limiting births has contributed to unfavorable demographics, with a shrinking number of people supporting an ever-growing retired population.