Sentence examples for dwindling ability from inspiring English sources

The PSP, which Ofcom first proposed in 2004 as a solution to broadcasters' dwindling ability to afford making public service programming, was originally envisaged as a body that would have a budget of £300m.

The report cites example after example of the agency's dwindling ability to "[persuade] individuals to pay their taxes.

But it would be equally naive to believe that the team's seemingly dwindling ability to remain competitive this season had no part to play in the decision of thousands to watch on television, or perhaps not to watch at all.

The responses of environments with organic pollutants are perceptible from the dwindling degradative abilities of microorganisms.

Their stored fat dwindled, their ability to endure stress declined, and their life span shrank by more than 10%.

Many consumer product companies agree that weight-outs stem from a dwindling in their ability to dictate prices.

With an industry forever moaning about its dwindling money-making ability, it makes sense for the labels to latch on to one of the few media businesses still raking it in.

With Argentina's foreign currency reserves dwindling and its ability to borrow abroad blocked by past defaults, its government is facing a desperate cash squeeze and is asking the World Bank to let it put off repaying $800 million in loans that come due this week, President Eduardo Duhalde said today.

Inhabiting one place — that is to be fully absorbed by and focused on one's surroundings rather than living in some diffuse cyberlocation composed of the different strands of a device-driven existence — is a fast-dwindling ability.

The devastating April terrorist attack on a bus station in Abuja will once again stir fears among Nigerians of the power and reach of Boko Haram, and further erode already dwindling confidence in the ability of the federal government to contain and address the crisis.

But this ability dwindles as they grow older: English-speaking children are no longer able to distinguish the subtle tonal changes in Chinese, for example.