I was continuing to shrink... to become...

Maybe it will open with the sun.

Purely humanitarian missions are declining in frequency.

Is all of our brain going to start to shrink and atrophy like that?

God help me to have the cramp go, he thought.

Venezuela s circle of friends in the region is shrinking.

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

At the same time financial resources are shrinking.

That's what allows the heart to expand and contract as it's beating.

And also by the horrible thought that without nourishment... the shrinking process was quickening.

Far from diminishing, the number of conflicts world wide was on the increase.

And in the MRI and MR spectroscopy here, the prostate tumor activity is shown in red you can see it diminishing after a year.

This contraction of the job market has had a greater impact on youth than on adults.

As you get further and further away from the pump, the deaths begin to grow less and less frequent.

As emphasized in previous reports, the possibilities for cross borrowing are becoming ever more limited.

A sharp contraction in jobs and labor income has many negative consequences on both the economy and financial markets.

The significant contraction of net resource flows between 1990 and 1991 showed no signs of being reversed.

In contrast, in Central and Eastern Europe, output continued to shrink, although the rate of decrease had slowed over the past two years.

My country notes with concern that the drug problem, far from diminishing, is growing in an alarming way in most of our countries.

Policy space, which was shrinking, was essential for developing countries to become able to, as was often stressed, take primary responsibility for their own development.

Xenophobic populism is stalking democracies in Europe. Social democratic parties are shrinking, while right wing demagogues promise to protect Western values from the Islamic hordes.

Work in the public sector, with generally non discriminatory rules, provides better protection for employees. This sector has been shrinking as a result of restructuring.

The reason is simple Japan s overall growth rates have been quite low, but growth was achieved despite a rapidly shrinking working age population.

Mrs. Stewart (Canada) We live in a shrinking global community where our interests are increasingly interwoven and our hopes for the future are more and more dependent on one another.

In times of crisis, SWFs not only invest a smaller proportion of their portfolios abroad and divest from some foreign holdings, but the total value of their investments tends to shrink as well.

33. The vigorous creation of job opportunities in the social sector, i.e., in non agriculture and in urban areas, brought the persistently shrinking share of farm labour down to 22.2 per cent in 1991.

4. There is no assurance that the present trend is sustainable, and several countries are taking policy measures to make their economies capable of adjusting to a sharp contraction in these large inflows.

A concept known as the size principle, allows for a gradation of muscle force during weak contraction to occur in small steps, which then become progressively larger when greater amounts of force are required.

In 12 European Union countries for which data were available, the average pay gap between men and women's earnings was 15.3 per cent in 2000 and was reported to be narrowing.7 However, the scarcity of wage data disaggregated by sex makes a thorough assessment of gender wage gaps difficult.

While the statistics on the number of entrepreneurs are not always comparable, over time statistics have shown that the gap between women and men in the category has been diminishing over the past 20 years.

With no industrial good that still requires a large scale labor force and the communications and services industries unable to fill the gap employment is shrinking and economic growth is stagnating.

The continuing decline of international cooperation in favour of medium income States gave cause for concern. Most of them had a pool of trained workers and an economic and commercial potential that, appropriately used, would strengthen international peace and security.

The current pace of work raises the risk of increasing the backlog of volumes for which it had been gradually reduced in the past, such as volumes II and V of Supplement No. 8.

As the dramatic shrinkage of the Aral Sea, Lake Chad, and the Dead Sea illustrate, it now requires preserving scarce natural resources and ensuring their equitable distribution among conflicting needs.

Corporations were wielding increased influence, consumer choices were becoming more limited and unhealthy dietary practices were spreading, leading to a worldwide rise in non communicable diseases.

Another way to think of it is that our body can communicate directly e.g., nerves innervate muscle, and when you want to contract your muscle you give a signal from your brain, it goes down the nerve and it directly attaches to the muscle and causes it to contract

Patients with type 1 HRS are usually ill, may have low blood pressure, and may require therapy with drugs to improve the strength of heart muscle contraction (inotropes) or other drugs to maintain blood pressure (vasopressors).

Today's course of action in which we neglect the coming squeeze in global oil supplies, rely too heavily on Middle East oil, and ignore the environmental consequences of fossil fuels is reaching a dead end.

It also shows that the gap between developed and developing countries is closing, with developed countries in southern Europe, where participation is decreasing marginally, showing lower women participation than countries in Latin America and Africa.

What forms might a radical twenty first century enlightenment take? I would rather hope that we will see a new sense of human values, a recognition that we are united not only by our presence in a shrinking world but as members of the human race.

If the ice cover simultaneously shrinks and gets thinner, then the shrinkage in area is first steady but then accelerates towards the end, when the remaining ice becomes ever thinner and more vulnerable to melting. This is what I fear is happening now.

73. Declining economic activity has strongly eroded the functioning of the labour market and the premise of earnings being a market category determining the financial and social standing of an individual and his family likewise, it has arrested the process of disencumbering the economy of social costs.

In 2002, the US Census Bureau reported that health insurance coverage, considered a prerequisite of adequate medical care, was not only eroding but would likely worsen over the next several years.

The Committee restates its view that, as more staff become trained in mission related skills, the requirement for such training should decrease, and with it the requirement for mission specific training related travel, particularly in missions that are no longer growing or are in the process of downsizing.