Sentence examples for shrinking hold from inspiring English sources
Between them, the two companies have more than 90% of the $800m market, the world's third-largest; Lucky, the domestic firm, has a shrinking hold on the rest.In exchange for its entry price, Kodak will be the first foreign firm allowed to set up a new sort of corporate structure a "joint share company"—that may spare it much of the pain other foreign firms have suffered in China.
As the area it controls continues to shrink, holding al-Bab has become less of an imperative for Isis and the group's remaining energies are being focused on its two main centres of gravity, Raqqa and Mosul.
So I don't get to go to a doctor at all, and I can't find a good one to give me the diagnosis the last shrink held off on writing down simply to fill his schedule and his pockets.
Meanwhile, shrinking firms hold off sacking people, but the net effect is that investment and employment fall.
A sponge can hold so much water, but if the sponge is shrinking, it holds less.
The Parsi youth association in Mumbai, founded in 2009 to turn around the shrinking population, holds frequent speed-dating sessions and produces a calendar of the community's hottest pin-ups.
Crop diversification, following intercropping and agroforestry, has been reported to be a potential alternative for enhancing per capita (unit area and time) productivity in the context of shrinking land holding and increasing human and livestock population (Swaminathan 2001).
Like most fintech entrepreneurs, Hinrikus argues that technology will disrupt the way traditional banking is done – and shrink banks' hold on many of their core businesses.
Leader of the pack is iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market (ITOT), which has shrunk your holding cost close to zero.
Before Yates, prosecutors did not shrink from holding obviously guilty CEOs and other executives accountable (Jeffrey Skilling of Enron, Bernie Ebbers of Worldcom).
The aim is to intensify pressure on the shrinking havens still held by Taliban and Al Qaeda forces.
