Sentence examples for thereby shrinking from inspiring English sources

Bonds wore an elbow pad better suited for a hockey player, which allowed him to lean fearlessly out over the plate, thereby shrinking the strike zone.

"There is a reluctance on the part of many banks to make loans over the thresholds, thereby shrinking the high-cost market".

But it did not mention a critical point: a dramatic increase in the number of deceased organ donors would drastically reduce the need for living donation, thereby shrinking — or even eliminating — the black market.

A year later, the Imperial Household Law of 1947, imposed during the American occupation, abolished 11 other branches of the imperial family, thereby shrinking the pool of male heirs to the Chrysanthemum Throne.

Richie, ever protective of his grass, had noticed that the hop allowed her to plant her feet in front of the rubber before pushing off, thereby shrinking the distance to the plate and leaving batters with even less time to react to her heat.

Mendelson's understandable aversion to moral relativism causes her to err in the other direction, narrowing her definition of morality to a specific, yet vaguely explained "cultural product of the West," and thereby shrinking her sympathetic readership to those few who happen to share her idiosyncratic terms.

Bad-acting states and others seek to isolate scholars and thereby shrink [academic] inquiry and discourse".

Spelled out in terms of DNA/TCs, what makes humans special is the ability to interlink information between distant brain areas and thereby shrink the overlap between representations.

Zoom allows users to tailor searches for people and companies, thereby dramatically shrinking the number of results to a coherent, manageable list.

If, however, that money were to be spent on effective, evidence-based maintenance treatment, it could treat Delosangeles and two dozen other people dealing with drug problems for at least a decade, cutting their risk for death and for relapse at least in half and thereby actually shrinking demand.

Maybe Vps4 acts like a winch, pulling in and successively removing one ESCRT-III subunit at the time, thereby gradually shrinking the diameter of the ESCRT-III filament and constricting the membrane ('purse string' model) (Fig. 3B, left panel) [46].