Sentence examples for support dwindled from inspiring English sources

Popular support dwindled and in its last decade of violence no more than five people were killed each year.

He maintained Virginia's academic currency, and built its global reputation, as state support dwindled from one-quarter of the university's budget to 7percentt.

But as pressure mounted on Serbia to arrest him or watch its bid for European Union membership wither, his network of support dwindled, and at the end he was captured alone.

His support dwindled even more after his administration was tainted by scandal, and he was criticized for spending too lavishly and for awarding himself the highest salary of any Latin American leader at the time.

As his parliamentary support dwindled, Melbourne tried to prepare the queen for dealing with a Conservative government unwelcome to her and wisely insisted that she permit her husband, Prince Albert, to assume state responsibilities.

Following the emergence of the first commercially successful robots in the 1960s and 1970s, government support dwindled.

Others, such as the Indonesian Mujahidin Council, have seen their support dwindle.

Humans also consume alewife, and states along the Eastern seaboard have taken measures to support dwindling populations of anadromous alewife.

For starters, they may one day support dwindling bee populations by taking on pollination duties for billions of dollars worth of crops.

The Communists are more popular than Mr. Putin only among voters over 60; below that, their support dwindles almost in lockstep with age.

And Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, who won a straw poll of Republican voters here in August but saw her support dwindle in recent months, was a distant sixth, reflecting a primary race of extraordinarily volatility.