Sentence examples for shrinking status from inspiring English sources

Athene Donald is on Twitter as @AtheneDonald Assuming no great changes in the social science share of revenue and capital within the overall science budget, the picture is broadly (though somewhat shrinking) status quo for the next five years.

Much will be made of McCain's "mistakes" in his campaign, as conservatives will surely seek to blame his (and Obama's) performance for their shrinking minority status, to shift blame away from the failure of their own policies.

Britain, whose Parliament voted not to bomb Syria in August 2013, is generally regarded as having shrunk in status.

Allen Soyster, a director of engineering education at the National Science Foundation, told me he did not think that class played the same role here that it does in Britain — he thought the earning potential of jobs such as those in the financial sector was one of the main reasons behind engineering's shrinking appeal — but status was a factor.

But as time passes and insurers and employers modify their coverage, the number of plans entitled to such "grandfather status" is shrinking.

Clinging to the status quo and shrinking away from our most serious fiscal challenges is a recipe for electoral defeat.

The close lateral linkage of water conducting xylem with phloem translates changes in tree water status directly to shrinking and swelling of non-lignified tissues in the bark and phloem (Molz and Klepper 1973; Zweifel and Häsler 2001).

Because there is no alternative but to challenge the status quo of ever-increasing debt, shrinking job opportunities and disappearing civil rights.

It's not a victory for insurgency, but for the status quo, of country as a fearful, shrinking island of common reference points.

An important factor that determines the status of a microtubule, whether it is growing or shrinking, is the length of the GTP tubulin microtubule cap.

The result will be a loss of economic influence.Governments hate the idea of a shrinking population because the absolute size of GDP matters for great-power status.