Sentence examples for shrinking of state from inspiring English sources

The community of contemporary music has perhaps the most to lose from a potential shrinking of state support.

The first stimulus is now expiring and much of its contribution was cancelled out by the shrinking of state and local-government budgets.

The collapse of totalitarian structures of state control in former-Soviet eastern Europe has combined with a shrinking of state in the west.

But the issue resonates at the state level as well, where corporate taxes have long been a shrinking share of state revenues.

Many of those districts have been chipping away at their high-caliber programs in recent years, caught between local opposition to higher property taxes and a shrinking share of state aid.

In states like California, where cuts were deep and where there are several high-profile university arts halls, the shrinking pool of state money was sometimes doubly painful as education cuts and arts cuts took large bites out of budgets.

Some al-Qaeda leaders, meanwhile, have endorsed south Yemeni calls for independence.Yemen's increasing lawlessness outside shrinking zones of state control around the main cities is one reason why, earlier this year, al-Qaeda's Saudi branch announced it was moving across the border and merging forces with its brethren in Yemen.

But New York's leaders have ignored the larger issues that drive down the state's voter participation rates, in particular the electoral calendar: New York holds its primary at the worst possible time of the electoral season, and it remains among the shrinking minority of states that still don't allow early voting.

California has been among a shrinking number of states that keep inmates isolated on the grounds of gang membership rather than behavior, at a time of increasing national criticism over the use of solitary confinement.

The stated target of shrinking the state below 40% of GDP is yet another point on which the coalition is planning to go far beyond the Thatcher government.

This generation, more than any other, is suffering the results of 37 years of shrinking the state and privatising its services.