Sentence examples for it shrank from from inspiring English sources

As far as the economy is concerned, Japan has put behind it a catatonic decade or more during which it shrank from Asia, a region where its money flows had long dominated.

It shrank from 9.9% of GDP in 2011 to 2.9% of GDP in 2012 and is a long way of historic highs of 14.7% of GDP in 2008.

From the numerical analysis, when the embossed part was cooled, it shrank from the edge toward the thermal center of the embossed part but the sidewall of a mold cavity contacting the post prevented its shrinkage.

Politically, of course, it cleaves to the left, yet by temperament it shrinks from progress.

In Sztaki, they simply compress the image and it shrinks from 700 to 100MB, which is sufficient.

Afterwards, when the tribunes of the people again brought their motion for dividing the city to the vote, Camillus appeared openly against it, shrinking from no unpopularity, and inveighing boldly against the promoters of it, and so urging and constraining the multitude that contrary to their inclinations they rejected the proposal but yet hated Camillus.

The close-up of Lux traveling home alone by taxi in the blue light of dawn after her sexual humiliation is the bleakest image in a film that otherwise luxuriates in epiphanies of post-pubescent girlhood -- not that it shrinks from realities like menstruation or one sister's capacity for meanness to another.

Feel it shrink from my caresses?

In the past year, the number of GOP supporters who acknowledge humans are causing it shrunk from 40 to 35percentt, according to a Gallup poll that found up to 90percentt of Democrats accept the science.

While they welcomed male company, I shrank from it, dreaded it, feeling like someone forever trying to pass, someone who would eventually be found out, and be expelled from polite society.

It decisively shrank from honoring the slain president.