Sentence examples for rather shrinking from inspiring English sources

Furthermore, relapses due to drug resistance stop occurring, a reflection of the fact that the LSC population is not proliferating anymore but rather shrinking over time.

So far, the governors would rather shrink their governments.

He had a stroke a while ago, and rather shrank into himself.

This capital shortfall has already prompted asset sales by banks, which would rather shrink their balance-sheets than tap shareholders.

That makes funding pricier, so banks would rather shrink their loan books than issue shares, starving the economy of credit.

Because of the angle from which the sunlight strikes the moon, the moon will be a waxing crescent rather than a waning crescent, growing rather than shrinking, and the rest of the characters in the cast will be totally different.

And its economy is still growing briskly, rather than shrinking, as ours is.

But, unlike most other economies, the national debt has been rising steadily for the past six years rather than shrinking.

But Dobbs is narrowing the gap, and his news program is one of the handful on cable whose audiences are growing, rather than shrinking.

John Cridland, the head of the CBI, an employers' group, said the "overwhelming view" of businesses is that the economy is flat, rather than shrinking.

The latest census figures show the gap between the wealthiest Americans and everybody else widening — rather than shrinking, as some economists expected — during the crash of 2008.