Sentence examples for the shrinking proportion from inspiring English sources

Nativists see the numbers, particularly the shrinking proportion of non-Hispanic whites, and fan the flames of racial hatred.

While the bulge in younger people, if they are educated, presents a potential "demographic dividend" for countries like Bangladesh and Brazil, the shrinking proportion of working-age people elsewhere may place a strain on governments and lead them to raise retirement ages and to encourage alternative job opportunities for older workers.

Even if young researchers are not thrilled with the shrinking proportion of tenure-track positions, she says, the changing tenure picture provides opportunities for them to take advantage of their unique strengths and form new, unconventional collaborations.

And the shrinking proportion of vets within the population means that, while they're still a key voting block that's constantly praised by politicians, if history is any guide they'll have less and less political power in coming years.

With the world population having risen still more substantially and growth continuing, the EU represents a shrinking proportion of the world population.

Today, unions still manage to bargain for the kind of wages and benefits that once characterized the American middle class, but the decades of anti-union policy by employers abetted by the NLRB mean they represent a shrinking proportion of the American workforce, now disproportionately in the public sector.

Governance and collegiality have also been eroded by the casualization of academic labour, with a shrinking proportion of the faculty available to serve on committees and mentor students, which has increased the workload of full-time faculty members.

The figures show a shrinking proportion of persistent absentees, defined as pupils who miss 10% or more classroom periods.

As a result, workers have been a shrinking proportion of the country's population since 1989.

Such leaders represent a shrinking proportion of the total share of emissions.

Its productive capacity keeps soaring, but Chinese consumers are taking home a shrinking proportion of the total economy.