Sentence examples for risk of shrinking from inspiring English sources

So for me, liberty is an open cultural space, always at risk of shrinking from a variety of stealthy as well as obvious dangers (for example, the current pressure on public institutions to find corporate sponsors; the horrible new legalistic acceptance of forms of torture).

As global warming brings about a decline in snowpacks around the world, billions of people face a high risk of shrinking water supplies in the coming century, a recent study has found.

In the worst case, the Catholic Church will experience a new Ice Age instead of a new spring, and it will run the risk of shrinking down to a mere sect, still counting many members but otherwise socially and religiously irrelevant.

It's better if it gets air dried because putting it in the dryer will have the risk of shrinking the fleece.

Typically even if you feel your job isn't a risk, the fear of shrinking options makes most people clamp on to whatever job they have.

In the long term, societies with low fertility face the risk of a shrinking working population.

Profits for the nation's 7,436 lenders rose nearly 50 percent, to $35.3 billion, compared with the period a year ago, while the number of banks at risk of failure shrank for the second consecutive quarter.

"In other words, we did not allow banks the option of shrinking their risk-weighted assets in order to push up their capital ratios.

Random-effects regression models have the advantage of shrinking group-specific estimates toward the adjusted education-category mean risks, which guarantees a reduced mean square error for the ensemble of results [ 12].

In a time of shrinking resources policy makers and administrators in Child Protective Services are increasingly turning to tools such as structured risk assessment to manage service demand.

Instead of shrinking, I chose to shine.