Their numbers are dwindling.

Even in Muslim communities, diversity has been dwindling.

Today, Saleh s support among his top generals is dwindling.

I lost hopes and saw my ambitions dwindling away.

But America s dwindling leverage cannot match the influence of the region s axis of evil.

His economic policies in the face of dwindling international oil prices have been disastrous.

Economists who insist that China s financial leverage is not too high are a dwindling minority.

For many, the incident was an opportunity to complain about dwindling rights in the ultra religious kingdom.

With the importance of the tradeables sector dwindling away, the nontradeables sector must increase its productivity and output.

Instead, they would become mired in a cycle of declining global commodity prices and ever dwindling income shares.

Dwindling resources have hampered the efforts of police to stem the rise of violent crime in the city.

Presidents Bánzer, Quiroga, and Sánchez de Lozada found their authority dwindling while movements against them grew ever more robust.

After all, America s global leverage is dwindling even as its army remains the most sophisticated military machine in history.

But the economy is not all that is under threat Russia s soft power is dwindling, with potentially devastating results.

The small number of countries that recognize Taiwan diplomatically is dwindling constantly, owing to a mixture of Chinese pressure and blandishments.

Nonetheless, recent events, together with the PA s dwindling resources, have diminished Abbas s credibility among Palestinians, who increasingly view him as desperate.

Stubbornly high youth unemployment, along with Europe s dwindling numbers of school leavers, is already canceling out the positive effects of immigration.

The principle that international cooperation is required to protect fishery resources, which are dwindling everywhere, was adopted at the 2011 CCAMLR meeting.

The losses also include failure to conserve the world s dwindling wildlife and rapidly degrading ecosystems, which are worth trillions of dollars in terms of life supporting services.

She argues that Belykh's political immunity has been evaporating since Vladimir Putin's return to the Kremlin, and that this investigation is a consequence of that dwindling clout.

The latest iteration of this campaign incites fear of migrants which is believed to be intended to mobilize support for the dwindling political base of VMRO DPMNE.

Of course, even in the face of this misery, we should not lose hope in agreements reached by diplomatic means but, realistically, the chances are dwindling every day.

When weapons of mass destruction were not found, the US and its small (and dwindling) coalition of the willing conjured up a new rationale the struggle for democracy.

While it has been making slow but steady progress, its future is clouded by worsening water shortages though it straddles the Yellow River, the water table is dwindling fast.

The US has no prospect of a military victory in Afghanistan or Iraq these wars economic costs can hardly be borne anymore, and political support at home is dwindling.

The rapid depletion of fish stocks is the inevitable outcome of sophisticated industrial technology being thrown at dwindling marine populations as demand rises, fueled by growth in human population and incomes.

By stubbornly pursuing an approach that has failed spectacularly in the past, Europe seems likely to consign itself to an ever dwindling economic position in the world, with fewer jobs and less prosperity.

Even if Putin has found a way to retain power without amending the constitution a possibility that was endlessly speculated about by Russia s dwindling band of democrats the undemocratic nature of his strategy is glaringly obvious.

With virtually no earned income and dwindling savings, the unemployed are least able to manage the current surge in gasoline and food prices, they are effectively shut off from credit, and many have mortgage debt that exceed the value of their homes.

Much of Europe already suffers from under performing labor markets in which job seekers and would be employers either can t or won t find one another. Stubbornly high youth unemployment, along with Europe s dwindling numbers of school leavers, is already canceling out the positive effects of immigration.