Sentence examples for standards shrinking from inspiring English sources
In reality, the politicians are posturing because they can't control EU migration, but need a scapegoat for falling living standards, shrinking public services and the housing shortage.
Late Sunday, Chinas largest insurer spooked investors, reporting a hefty 60.91% drop in net profit for the first quarter of the year to 3.474 billion yuan ($496.29 million) from 8.89 billion yuan ($1.27 billion) a year earlier based on Chinese accounting standards, shrinking its earnings per share to 0.12 yuan (1.7 cents).
Even during the recession average retired household incomes increased in real terms, while the wider population saw its living standards shrink".
The limited growth we are seeing is passing many parts of the country by as regional inequalities grow and living standards shrink.
Ontario and British Columbia must now meet California's low-carbon fuel standard and other provinces and US states are expected to join the standard, shrinking the market for oil sands.
In lieu of raising new capital, many European banks will stretch the capital they already have and meet minimum capital standards by shrinking, thereby cutting back on lending and damaging economic growth.
The gap in living standards has shrunk: GDP per person in the east has risen from 40% of west German levels in 1991 to nearly 70% in 2008.
The retailer has found that securing pallets with the high-performance tape is both more effective and more environmentally friendly than using standard shrink-wrapping.
The company obviously knows that quite a few of its users still want to buy the standard shrink-wrapped versions of its apps and will continue to offers these as well.
The data suggested that it was the latter, and, if you account for such factors, that two-tenths of a standard deviation shrinks even more.
In contrast, smaller standard deviations shrank the effect sizes too much, thus preventing confident predictions for many variants.
