Sentence examples for diminishing scale from inspiring English sources

The designer Jhane Barnes wants mathematics students to connect textiles, like the one at left she designed for Herman Miller, with something called fractal geometry: patterns that repeat on a diminishing scale.

The little maid of the many-rubied dowry received the handsomest doll, and the rest of the gifts were graded in value according to the diminishing scale of the parents' stations in life.

Security officials say the diminishing scale of the violent crimes is a sign that security has improved and that insurgents are less able to stage the huge bombings of the height of the sectarian conflict.

In contrast, the scale inhibitor (1-hydroxy-ethane-1,1-diphosphonic acid (HEDP)) is incorporated into the calcium carbonate crystals at the surface, modifying the structure and diminishing scale formation in the surface; this additive additionally inhibited corrosion.

Research in the Department seeks to explore and explain fundamental questions that range from understanding the origin of the universe, including string theory, cosmology, and astrophysics, to understanding the visible world of colloids and the world on an ever diminishing scale, from the mesoscale to the nanoscale, condensed matter, and atomic, molecular and particle physics.

Thereby, the functional disability of RA patients increases on a diminishing scale and is often measured via the disability index of the Health Assessment Questionnaire HAQQ).

Seen in three diminishing scaled rooms, you move from the operatically baroque to a final room of a single Hellenic-like, poignant double bust with a single eye looking skyward.

The industry continued on a diminished scale into the 19th century at other centres.

What's refreshing here (aside from the inimitably British mock-epic tone) is precisely this sense of an immense fantasy played out in a diminished scale.

Okri's two follow-ups (or, as he describes them, the "continuation of the dream") developed his mythical vision but on a diminished scale.

Stationery and Toy resumed business at 11 30 a.m. on Oct. 31 and has been rebuilding its inventory since, on a much diminished scale.