It also announced that it had met the European Banking Authority's capital requirement, largely by shrinking its balance-sheet.
It is also undertaking a big reform of the Bundeswehr, which consists largely of shrinking the army from 250,000 soldiers in 2010, when the reform began, to about 185,000 by 2017, to save money.
After that time, the size of the court expanded and shrank – largely with the number of federal circuits.
The main reason why virgin forest is being cut down is not so much the simple pursuit of profit but a set of perverse economic incentives.In the Brazilian Amazon, between the 1960s and the early 1990s the forest shrank largely because the government intended it to.
In the second quarter Japanese output shrank sharply, largely because consumers had accelerated purchases in the first quarter in order to avoid a consumption-tax rise.
The secular parties speak largely for a shrinking elite that has understandable but excessive fears of a rising Islamic fundamentalism turning Turkey into a new Iran.
Yet in the past decade the populations of small cities have been shrinking, largely because bigger ones have proved to be a much more powerful draw for migrants.Plenty of room for moreThe government's worries about population size are overblown.
In the US, the irrigated grainland is starting to shrink largely as a result of depletion of the Ogallala aquifer, making it more difficult to rapidly increase overall grain production.
The Manhattan real estate market closed out 2011 with prices relatively flat, but sales volume for the fourth quarter was down by more than 12 percent from the previous year largely because of shrinking condominium inventory as fewer new developments came to market, according to reports that will be released by the city's major brokerage firms on Wednesday.
The hardware construction is certainly solid for what largely amounts to shrunk down version of the iPhone.
