Sentence examples for diminished house from inspiring English sources

Across the English Channel in Brittany, Henry Tudor, a descendant of the greatly diminished House of Lancaster, seized on Richard's difficulties so that he could challenge Richard's claim to the throne.

At ninety my grandmother gave up her sheep and her chickens, to live seven years in a diminishing house.

Councils are setting themselves up as private landlords to protect their diminishing housing stock from the rejuvenated right-to-buy scheme first introduced by Margaret Thatcher.

Our savings diminished, our house had to be sold, and eventually we became dependant on the state.

It is the sort of policy change that has been needed for many decades and the good news is it probably means the risks for house price booms in the future are greatly diminished and housing affordability, in time, will improve and home ownership rates, which have been falling, should again pick up.

Other native plants seem to have diminished as housing, roads and other construction carved through meadows, woodlands and sandy shoreland.

Alongside diminished resources for house building, cuts of 17.98% over the next 10 years will also lead to 278,000 jobs and apprenticeships in the construction industry either being lost or not created.

"Renting is likely to be the only game in town and young people are facing fierce competition to secure a home in what is an already diminished supply of housing".

Though the powers of the presidency are at this moment somewhat diminished by the Republican House and the atavistic Supreme Court, they remain latent.

Others rightly point out that demolishing buildings and relocating residents with private-housing vouchers diminishes the total housing stock.

The supply of subsidized housing has diminished sharply, the result of cuts in government money for low-income housing and the sale of city-owned residential buildings to private owners.