In the dwindling areas the Taliban still control, those commandos are hunting not only for top lieutenants but also for non-Afghan fighters who are tied both to the Taliban leadership and the Qaeda terrorist group.
NATO's targeting grew increasingly precise, one senior NATO diplomat said, as the United States established around-the-clock surveillance over the dwindling areas that Libyan military forces still controlled, using armed Predator drones to detect, track and occasionally fire at those forces.
Mandlakazi raids into the northern parts of the dwindling area under Cetshwayo's control culminated in a Mandlakazi attack on Ulundi and the final defeat of Cetshwayo's Usuthu supporters on July 21 , 1883 it is to this, known as the second Battle of Ulundi, that modern historians date the demise of the Zulu kingdom.
Like the sorcerer's apprentice, Assad has since watched helplessly as his former tool wreaks havoc across his dwindling area of control, pushing closer and closer to Damascus.
Once teeming so thickly that farmers netted them by the bushel for fertilizer, the 12- to 15-inch-long fish have gradually declined in number as dams and clogged culverts have blocked dwindling spawning areas.
What's more, the team found that phytoplankton numbers were more likely to dwindle in areas of the ocean that were warming, suggesting that climate change is responsible for the drop.
As drought and growing populations cause water supplies to dwindle in areas around the world, reclaimed wastewater offers a possible solution.
On the margins of the continents, shallow seas, which had dwindled in area at the end of the Permian, became more extensive; as sea levels gradually rose, the waters of continental shelves were colonized for the first time by large marine reptiles and reef-building corals of modern aspect.
Continuous intrusion of saline water would result in dwindling of rice area leading to food shortages in domestic and global markets.
The rhetoric of the movement toned down after the U.S. went to war with Germany; most American eugenicists abandoned their explicit praise of the Nazi project, and the field dwindled as an area of officially sanctioned research.
Traditionally, environmentalists have focused their concern solely on the dwindling extent of forested areas, but the authors believe new evidence of more dense forest – made up of more and larger trees – could be crucial in reducing atmospheric carbon, which is linked to climate change.
