Such industrial mismatches become larger during recessions, reflecting greater churn in the labor market as workers move between shrinking and expanding sectors but they decline as the economy recovers.

China s Incredible Shrinking Economy

China s Shrinking Trade Surplus

Lending dried up and economies started shrinking.

Labor mobility within a currency area represents a key adjustment mechanism to preserve the effectiveness of monetary policy against asymmetries in regional shocks in theory, workers from the eurozone s shrinking periphery should flow to the expanding core.

However, his options are shrinking rapidly.

Due to accelerating industrialization and urbanization, agricultural land is shrinking.

But one area which is particularly intriguing for us is the northern region, you know, of Mars, close to the North Pole, because we see ice caps, and we see the ice caps shrinking and expanding, so it's very much like you have in northern Canada.

Some government programs are shrinking from lack of demand.

At the current moment, economic well being is shrinking.

Venezuela s circle of friends in the region is shrinking.

Distance is shrinking. Geographical barriers no longer provide easy protection.

The ever shrinking old generation of Saudi kings in waiting.

Most of that we'll do by expanding and protecting wildlands, by expanding and protecting the populations of endangered species.

Without action, the economy faces the threat of declining consumption and even shrinking output.

Expanding Crime and Punishment in Tibet

Throughout the world, male female differences in HIV prevalence are shrinking.

China s Expanding Core

Shrinking ice sheets make the planet darker, so it absorbs more sunlight and becomes warmer.

First, with its birth rate well below replacement level, Japan s population is aging and shrinking.

Austerians believe that only balancing government budgets and shrinking national debts will restore investor confidence.

The British economy is contracting. Greece s economy has been shrinking for years.

So shrinking export markets will slow down growth promoting structural change at home.

God knows what every female bears , and the wombs ' shrinking and swelling everything with Him has its measure

God knows what every female bears , and the wombs ' shrinking and swelling everything with Him has its measure

A shrinking economy makes private and public debt look less sustainable, which does nothing for market confidence.

This shrinking of the world has been as sudden as it has been profound.

Some of the recent rise, associated with the shrinking of glaciers, is not caused by human activities, since the glaciers have been shrinking for hundreds of years while human activities became significant only in the last century.

Expanding Affirmative Action to Public Institutions

And both face serious demographic problems, given shrinking and aging populations, as well as the challenge of Asia s rising superpowers.

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It means expanding access to credit and financial services everywhere.

Democracy, too, is about expanding opportunities and strengthening human capabilities.

In addition, tastes and preferences are converging and expanding across cultures.

The comfort level for perpetrators of these crimes is shrinking as the options for prosecution expand.

Just as Europe s population is aging and will be shrinking, that of much of the developing world is young and growing.

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The range of the species is expanding.

ISAF is expanding its area of operation.

They live from paycheck to paycheck often a shrinking paycheck, owing to the decline in hourly wages and hours worked.

Coastlines are shrinking. We ve seen record drought, spreading famine, and storms that are growing stronger with each passing hurricane season.

In Europe, for example, raising the retirement age for public pensions and shrinking government employment would curtail welfare state excesses.

Currently, the French Air Force is expanding and replacing aircraft inventory.

We constructed the universe with power , and We are expanding it .

We constructed the universe with power , and We are expanding it .