Sentence examples for shrinking pie from inspiring English sources

Politicians, fighting over a shrinking pie, become even less cooperative.

The squeeze on corporate budgets means that sellers must fight over a shrinking pie.

Instead, each side was focused on how to secure a bigger slice of a shrinking pie for its own base.

"With a shrinking pie," he said, "everyone is going to have to sign onto the fairness of what happens".

Bank executives have long said that they must pay a larger slice of a shrinking pie in bad times to retain their top people.

Fewer horses run at too many tracks with too many race dates, competing for smaller purses and slicing, in ever thinner pieces, a shrinking pie of betting money.

Either we both put our nations on more sustainable growth paths — which requires cutting, taxing and investing for the future — or we're looking at a world in which democracies are going to turn on themselves and fight over shrinking pies, with China having a growing say over how big the slices will be.

A shrinking economic pie is bad for stocks because corporate profits tend to fall, making equities appear more expensive.

DANNY MEYER C.E.O. of Union Square Hospitality Group Nearly every gut-ripping national debate asks who will get what sliver of a shrinking American pie.

What is more, corporate leaders say, a shrinking economic pie could work against union organizing as much as it could work in its favor.

James Q . Wilsons proposal to finance faith-based operations through vouchers (Op-Ed, April 27) would create a growing proliferation of unregulated, unaccountable charities of uncertain efficacy competing for scraps of a shrinking public pie.