After that time, the size of the court expanded and shrank – largely with the number of federal circuits.
Yet in the past decade the populations of small cities have been shrinking, largely because bigger ones have proved to be a much more powerful draw for migrants.Plenty of room for moreThe government's worries about population size are overblown.
The main reason why virgin forest is being cut down is not so much the simple pursuit of profit but a set of perverse economic incentives.In the Brazilian Amazon, between the 1960s and the early 1990s the forest shrank largely because the government intended it to.
Lion populations are shrinking largely due to loss of habitat, as human populations and their livestock encroach on the big cats' territory and drive off their prey.
Government did not in fact shrink, thanks largely to military spending and retirement benefits, but the willingness to say that it could provide what F.D.R. had called "a permanently safe order of things," let alone F.D.R.'s economic "Second Bill of Rights," was almost forgotten.
As in other Western countries, however, France's merchant fleet has steadily shrunk, largely because of the difficulty of competing with lower-cost carriers.
The many ills of poor, shrinking and largely black rustbelt cities will take a long time to fix.
In the second quarter Japanese output shrank sharply, largely because consumers had accelerated purchases in the first quarter in order to avoid a consumption-tax rise.
Yes, conservation projects have helped preserve individual species, but over all the trade in rare creatures has grown, not shrunk — thanks largely to rising demand from an increasingly affluent Asia.
With the dramatic downturn in the U.S. economy, a once robust job market has shrunk due largely to the depressed housing market.
