Sentence examples for diminishing space from inspiring English sources

The columns, of diminishing thickness toward the centre of the colonnade, with diminishing space between them, lean toward the centre, too; all these differences are virtually invisible to the beholder.

The change in attitudes came more from influential voices both within and outside the nation, while most NGOs and activists were forced to adopt a softer tone on the matter, constrained by diminishing space for civil society.

Kadir articulates the diminishing space between comic and tragic: "At the time of writing I realize that 'comical' should sooner be replaced by 'tragic' (the boundary between them seems grayer and grayer to me)." Khemiri finds his most potent chemical mix at the end of the novel.

The London police have discovered that the best way to neuter demonstrations is not to move everyone on, or disperse troublemakers, but hold them close, cordon them into a diminishing space for hours and hours, as a sort of arbitrary al fresco arrest.

IRL — an impermanent state of being that takes place in a liminal, diminishing space.

That amounts to nearly 175 million pounds of wasted material a year that slowly rots away there, taking up already diminished space.

Degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis describes a condition in which there is diminished space available for the neural and vascular elements in the lumbar spine secondary to degenerative changes in the spinal canal, presenting with a history of gluteal or lower extremity symptoms exacerbated by walking or standing which improves or resolves with sitting or bending forward.

"This is a government that is going to place a premium on efficiency, diminishing the space for corruption".

My contribution here is open-ended in that I am interested in how these parallel views fail to recognize the crisis of diminishing public space in the United States – and the detriment of measuring the value of public space against the profit potential of private industry.

One would authorize the borrowing of $200 million to save some of what's left of the state's rapidly diminishing open space.

In these times of limited resources and diminishing landfill space, a single-use cup that can't be recycled is an indulgence we just cannot afford.