The only decision before him and his thinning ranks of allies is whether to leave peacefully or go down fighting.

Steroid containing agents should not be used for more than 14 days, as they may cause thinning of the skin.

Those of Jewish heritage who did not leave were quickly purged from German institutions, further thinning the ranks of academia.

In the past few years, logging operations have mainly been carried out for the purposes of thinning forests to ensure proper growth.

Its other main success is its survival, but its ranks are thinning and, in time, most of the key leaders will be caught or killed.

As a consequence, most of the wood today is derived from thinning and improvement cuts, forming 50 of the annual total growth increment of 8 million cubic meters of wood.

With the sun quickly setting on the Saleh era, the president is out of options. The only decision before him and his thinning ranks of allies is whether to leave peacefully or go down fighting.

The following year, crude precursors of the blood thinning medication heparin were contaminated, causing hundreds of allergic reactions and 19 deaths in the United States, and at least 80 serious adverse health events in Germany.

In March 2007, scientists studying the ASE through satellite and airborne surveys announced a significant thinning of the ASE, due to shifts in wind patterns that allow warmer waters to flow beneath the ice sheet.

And yet, if you take, for example, subclinical osteoporosis, a bone thinning disease, the precondition, otherwise known as osteopenia, you would have to treat 270 women for three years in order to prevent one broken bone.

It observes that the regeneration fellings (300 hectares) in the Angeli area constitute 0.8 per cent and the thinning logging operations (200 hectares) constitute 0.5 per cent of the forest, administered by the Muotkatunturi Herdsmen's Committee.

Howard's about this high, and he's round, and he's in his 60s, and he has big huge glasses and thinning grey hair, and he has a kind of wonderful exuberance and vitality, and he has a parrot, and he loves the opera, and he's a great aficionado of medieval history.