Sentence examples for shrinking significance from inspiring English sources

Those rooting for a climate pact at Copenhagen were left to mull over the meeting's shrinking significance until — twist!

Perhaps this is the point, like the speechlessness that curses him for two-thirds of the book (importantly, his name means "messenger" or "prophet"): a Joycean comment on shrinking significance, the epic becoming prosaic, tragedy repeating as farce.

'It's about shrinking the significance of their achievements.

The history of strip cartoons!' As a result, novels expand in size but shrink in significance.

However, as the piece grew in length, it seemed to shrink in significance.

Literary works grow or shrink in significance as the moment in which they were created recedes and as new readers bring new sensibilities to bear on them.

OUTSIDE Shaoxing, a textiles town in China's Zhejiang province, the houses are growing taller, even as the farms shrink in significance.

Entries to the ECDL soared after it was promoted by the PiXL Club, a network of secondary schools that has grown rapidly in recent years as local authorities have shrunk in significance.

The SAT and the ACT, bugaboos of generations of college applicants, were supposed to shrink in significance as more colleges and universities moved away from requiring standardized test scores for admission.

As the dollar evaporates in value and the US economy rapidly shrinks in global significance (the dollar has been on a free fall against all significant currencies in the world) we should wonder when will the dollar reach a value that makes the financial world crack.

Add information about personality, motivation and ability, and the impact of the name shrinks to minimal significance".