These figures confirm the fact that the number of countries in which executions regularly take place continues to dwindle.

Our imagination might shrink our hearts might dwindle, and our humanness might wither if we stay for too long inside our cultural cocoons.

I d like to dedicate this one to all the women in South Africa those women who refused to dwindle in the midst of apartheid.

We are clearly harmed if fish stocks dwindle to extinction. Less evidently, there are plants in the rain forest whose gene pool might be useful to us.

The fulfilment of that responsibility becomes ever more urgent as the generation of Holocaust survivors dwindle and in the face of an alarming increase in global acts of anti Semitism, Holocaust denial, racism and religious intolerance.

As citizens start relying on redistribution, productive work is discouraged, and real wealth creation suffers. Economic rot sets in as the ranks of dependent citizens grow, productive citizens dwindle in number, and society eventually runs out of other people s money.

As citizens start relying on redistribution, productive work is discouraged, and real wealth creation suffers. Economic rot sets in as the ranks of dependent citizens grow, productive citizens dwindle in number, and society eventually runs out of other people s money.

In addition, net foreign capital inflows are likely to dwindle for several quarters at least, affecting domestic monetary conditions while aggregate demand is weak. As such, the PBoC will need to maintain counter cyclical policies in order to avoid a deflationary spiral.

The sharing of nuclear technology for peaceful uses could halt development resources would dwindle world financial markets, trade and transportation would be hard hit, with major economic consequences and millions of people in poor countries would be driven into deeper deprivation and suffering.

An initiative called REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) would pay for ecosystem services on a global scale by rewarding forest conservation, thereby regulating climate change. These ideas should receive more attention in the future, as our supplies of non renewable resources dwindle.

The EU s next five decades, on the other hand, will see the baby boomers moving into retirement, leaving a shrunken labor force with the heavy burden of supporting their elders health care and pension needs. Thirty six per cent of Europeans will be aged 60 or over by 2050, and, despite increasing life expectancy, continued low fertility will mean the continent s population will begin to dwindle by 2020.