Sentence examples for shrink rather than from inspiring English sources

If it means slashing government spending, the economy could shrink rather than grow.

Indeed, as transistors have continued to shrink, rather than continuing to innovate, computer designers have simply adopted a so-called "multicore" approach, where multiple processors are added as more chip real estate became available.

Others said improving the availability of credit would not be enough to repair Britain's economy because there was also a lack of demand for loans as companies shrink rather than expand.

If the G.O.P. misreads Trende's argument and falls for the idea that it can win working-class whites, especially in non-southern states, without moving toward the center (or a center, more aptly) on economic policy, then it will fail miserably and probably see its coalition shrink rather than grow.

LOS ANGELES — KFC's parent, Yum Brands, has warned that it expects 2013 earnings to shrink rather than grow as it struggles to manage a food safety scare in China and expects no return to growth in restaurant sales there until the fourth quarter.

"This was the first time in human history that cities started to shrink rather than grow," Dr. Karl-Heinz Daehre, minister of land development and traffic for the province of Saxony-Anhalt, told me — with a trace of hyperbole — as we sat in his office in the provincial capital of Magdeburg.

But in doing so is it shrinking, rather than broadening, our horizons?

Much of the eurozone has been shrinking rather than expanding since the inception of these policies.

To do so, however, they have examined a case where public health provision shrank, rather than grew.

Any number below 50 means the sector is shrinking rather than growing, and a lower reading means the private sector is shrinking faster than before.

Dr. Van Buskirk's work took place in the eastern United States, and he found just the opposite trend: eastern birds are shrinking rather than growing.