Sentence examples for diminishing proportion from inspiring English sources
Higher-income countries tend to have aging populations and a diminishing proportion of young people.
So living human labor-power, or variable capital, as Marx calls it, is a diminishing proportion of what the capitalist has to invest in order to remain competitive.
Since beginning work in this field 11 years ago he's become increasingly concerned about the diminishing proportion of media coverage the pro-choice lobby has received.
Some two-thirds of Sydney's eligible working population is in the work force, and of this a small and diminishing proportion is employed in manufacturing, with the rest in service-related activities.
The agricultural sector in Belarus, which employs about one-tenth of the labour force but constitutes a diminishing proportion of GDP, is dominated by large collective and state farms.
The European Union, though richer than the United States, provides a tiny and diminishing proportion of the high-tech military equipment that NATO depends on if it is to be able to fight wars without an intolerable number of casualties.
The latter was a tall tower consisting of the vertical repetition of a basic story unit in regularly diminishing proportions.
Alternatives to Four Year Colleges for Black Males"." Black American Males in Higher Education: Diminishing Proportions.
First, copy inactivation acts rapidly, diminishing the proportion of active copies (encoding an active transposase).
Field epidemiologists often relegate certain personal particulars such as residential and work addresses to a lower priority in their data collection procedures, or at least enter the information in a haphazard fashion, rendering GIS analysis very difficult by diminishing the proportion of usable cases for analyses.
So in order to possess in itself this non-numerical unity, the nature must have, in itself, some sort of being too, proportional to it (such that the real entity of the nature is diminished in proportion to the diminished real unity that it has).
