Sentence examples for has withered down from inspiring English sources

That is, if he can revive a party that has withered down to a political nub since the glory days of its most swashbuckling prime minister, Justin's father, Pierre Elliott Trudeau.

What they don't know is that my frame has withered down to 100 pounds because I'm so sick with pain that I can't eat.

Darkoh says adult patients coming to clinics for treatment are often already very sick, some having withered down to as little as 50 pounds.

The government's multilayered crackdown on the summer events has withered the green movement down to a dispersed core of intellectual and political elites with no clear agenda or ability to mobilise, aside from subverting the rhetoric of state rallies.

Egypt, whose stature as a peacemaker has withered under President Hosni Mubarak, should take immediate, robust steps to shut down the tunnels that allow arms and money to flow to militants in Gaza.

The council shut down on the verge of bankruptcy in 2011, and the currency of its ideas in the Democratic party has withered.

Coal mining has withered.

That list has withered away.

The number of moderate Republicans has withered.

Consent for open markets has withered before.

But here, it has withered more rapidly.