Sentence examples for request shrinks from inspiring English sources

As the list of countries willing to consider Snowden's asylum request shrinks (only Venezuela, Bolivia, and Nicaragua have made offers), Snowden may be snowed in at Sheremetyevo for a while.

While plenty of schools teach fund-raising, there are no advanced degrees in how to be a philanthropist, turn down a request or shrink the amount of a gift that is being sought.

The requested guarantee shrank to £175m.

Margaret: She echoed her request to the shrink when she said to her dad in the subway, "I hate it when you look so concerned about me".

The challenge for Inktomi and others is in knowing what type of device is requesting the data, shrinking it to fit the appropriate screen and delivering the relevant content in the fewest number of keystrokes.

Woodmason requested vertical paintings, shrinking the space Fuseli had to work with.

That stopped the legislature using any of that money for its own fell purposes, which might have included fulfilling a modest request for an extra $280m (in lieu of shrinking property taxes) to help out local governments.

The discretionary portion of NASA's budget would have shrunk by $1 billion under the president's request.

To minimize internal fragmentation, BCO shrinks the area of the burst if the requested bandwidth is satisfied to enable unused slots internal to this burst to be used by other bursts.

A request for an extra 800 billion baht ($23 billion) to stimulate an economy that shrank by 7.1% year-on-year in the first quarter was passed by comfortable majorities in two televised late-night sittings this week.

And if you prefer moaning to my direct-request plan, talk to your shrink about passive-aggression.