Sentence examples for narrowing opportunities from inspiring English sources

Kirton's report on working conditions in both sides of the service, published on 23 February, reveals a fractured workforce feeling the strain of increased workload, less autonomy, job insecurity and narrowing opportunities for training and progression.

The Croatian Academy has also criticized the pyramidal system as "radically narrowing opportunities for young researchers and practically enticing brain drain from the public universities, institutes and Croatia".

Impatient with the narrowing opportunities for uncompromising jazz improvisors during the 1970s, he moved to San Francisco, and became active in music education.

Striving for equity: District leadership for narrowing opportunity and achievement gaps.

The equalising 30s, 40s, 50s and 60s of the 20th century have been replaced by inequality, narrowing opportunity, decline of meritocracy and rise of the super and ugly rich celebrocracy, avoiding taxes and concentrating their wealth in off-shore havens.

Micro-managing what happens in the classroom dents confidence and narrows opportunities for imaginative teaching, both vocational and academic.

Instead of improving the England team – the stated founding purpose of the Premier League – the top clubs narrowed opportunities by buying ready-made stars from abroad.

PAGE C1 VOICE OF CUBA, IN BLOG FORM Yoani S?hez, a 35-year old mother from Havana, maintains a blog describing daily life in Cuba: a dreary, enervating routine of food shortages, transportation troubles and narrowed opportunity.

Published in the United States in May under the title "Havana Real" (Melville House), her book draws on the same collection of sketches of daily life in Cuba — a dreary, enervating routine of food shortages, transportation troubles and narrowed opportunity — that she has been posting on her Web site, Generation Y (desdecuba.com/generationy), since 2007.

Ali and Hobson (2009) contend that increased drought frequency hastens herd depletion, narrows opportunity for rapid livelihood recovery, and intensifies pressure on depleted water and pasture resources.

Fewer people go out at night and fewer people are shopping, narrowing the opportunities for pickpockets and purse-snatchers.