Sentence examples for role dwindled from inspiring English sources

But with a declining threat, shrinking Pentagon budgets and higher-priority missions to monitor ballistic missile launchings around the world, Norad's air defense role dwindled to the 20 fighters -- 14 in the continental United States -- on alert two weeks ago.

I warned friends that UC would rapidly become an unaffordable luxury as the welfare roles swelled with illiterate immigrants while the tax roles dwindled because of white flight.

Although Peck continued to lend his talents wherever needed — such as the recorded voice of an off-stage Florenz Ziegfeld in the 1991 Broadway hit "Will Rogers Follies" — he considered himself semiretired in his later years as worthwhile roles dwindled.

Clearly, radio's local role has dwindled as big media chains have bought out their smaller competitors.

Clashed with AOL brass in wake of troubled merger, bemoaning his backseat role and dwindling fortune.

At a time where local authorities' roles are dwindling, schools will need to work together – perhaps though academy chains – to make things work.

"The court's ideology is playing a dwindling role in the lives of Americans".

"It's hard, it's hard," Castillo said, his demeanor subdued and serious, as he discussed his dwindling role.

This was not entirely surprising considering his dwindling role on the team and his penchant for unnecessary drama fading next to the whole Dwight Howard fiasco.

The actress Kim Cattrall, on the arm of Klaus Biesenbach, the director of MoMAP.S. 1 (who advised her to bid on a Robert Mangold drawing), spoke about the dwindling role of women over age 50 in Hollywood.

Yes, the dwindling role of print media is sad and worrisome, but our students are showing us the importance of today's sources of information, including cyber activism and the alternative press in learning and activism.