Latest indications suggest a narrow but shrinking majority in favour of the latest agreement, with 55% of voters who have made up their minds intending to back it.
The current public mood seems to me to shrink from such introspection, in favour of the alluring simplicities of sympathy and grief for brave strangers who are now dead.
Entry has been delayed many times, but is currently set for the autumn of next year, in time for Russia's chairmanship of the G8 in 2006.An overhaul of the armed forces, shrinking them and ending conscription in favour of a professional army.An administrative reform.
For example, one might expect localisation to cause the World Food Programme to shrink its size and influence in favour of local actors.
After the war, international markets shrank, the gold standard was abandoned in favour of managed national currencies, banking hegemony passed from Europe to the United States, and trade barriers multiplied.
So Heinberg suggests that if we're serious about avoiding climate catastrophe, we need to look at shrinking overall economic activity, de-emphasizing GDP in favour of "quality of life indicators", and reigning in population growth while instituting a guaranteed jobs program or a universal basic income.
The proportion in favour of fracking has shrunk since lively protests erupted at a drill site near Balcombe in Sussex last summer; it may keep sliding until a few pioneers prove it can be safe and unobtrusive.
Stripping out the influence of various job and personal characteristics - not just the effect of jobs requiring high levels of skill or higher educational qualifications, but also factors like age, experience, gender and location of the jobs - then the pay difference in favour of the public sector shrank to between 2.2% and 3.1%.
The shrinking communal resource base has forced a shift in animal farming in favour of small ruminants.
Polls show that the percentage of those in favour of a constitutional revision shrunk from 41%% in 2007 to 28%% in 2015, while the percentage of those who oppose revision has been relatively stable at 25%% in 2015 (NHK 2015).
