The ruling coalition, led by Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, faces a difficult balancing act to reassure its foreign creditors and its long-suffering citizens, who have seen their incomes dwindle by a third and Greek unemployment skyrocket to 27 percent in the past three years.
With border staff numbers dwindling by a fifth and passenger volumes up by 10%, lengthy queues at passport control were inevitable.
In just four years, the department's complement of sworn officers has dwindled by nearly a third, from 147 in 2010 to less than 98 currently available for duty.
Those reserves peaked at $4 trillion in 2014 but have since dwindled by a staggering $1 trillion.
Last year, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) said the creatures could see their numbers dwindle by nearly a third by mid-century.
The massive glaciers of the Himalayas, which hold one of Earth's largest reserves of snow and ice, have dwindled by one-fifth in the past 4 decades.
On the other hand, some scholars believe that white Californians will continue to be a majority of actual voters even as the white share of the population dwindles to a third by 2040.
In any case, the $3.7 billion in capital that Long-Term Capital had in mid-August had dwindled by more than two-thirds.
At present, eleven years after the disastrous American intervention, the Christian community in Mesopotamia has dwindled by more than two thirds.
In a brief speech, he vowed that they would "wipe out poverty, ignorance and disease". By then, however, the crowd of about 3,000 people had dwindled to about a third of that number.
