Sentences with phrase «about dwindling numbers»

I should clarify that my comments about dwindling numbers of RCC priests (and members) relates primarily to the US, and not world - wide.

I am concerned about the dwindling number of bookstores and am hoping that there is a leveling off in this market so they do not disappear.

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Faced with dwindling numbers and an ageing infrastructure, especially in the traditionally strong Catholic bastions of the nation's largest cities, painful decisions must be made about how best to continue the mission of proclaiming the Gospel in a dramatically different cultural setting.

The United States is one of a dwindling number of nations unenthusiastic about the application of world law when applied to its own conduct, but for reasons supplied by the author, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is still a tool for people of conscience to use in the struggle for a world more respectful of human dignity.

Presumably he is talking about Episcopal churches in New York, a few of which, with the dwindling number of Episcopalians who go to church, have been sold for such purposes.

They are cheap and easy to prepare, which is important in school systems with dwindling numbers of working kitchens, minimally trained labor and only about $ 1 to spend per meal.

The heavy rain and high winds hit hardest in the southeastern and northwestern sections of the county, raising creeks well past flood stage and rendering more than 80 roads impassible, though that number dwindled to about a dozen on Wednesday.

The mayoral candidate's poll numbers may have dwindled, leaving him behind Bill de Blasio, Christine Quinn, and Bill Thompson, but he's still fired up about Quinn's «betrayal» on term limits and that guy at the stoplight honking his horn.

In fact, the number peaks at the fetal stage — a 20 - week - old fetus has about 6 million — and dwindles to around a million at birth.

19 Meanwhile, the dwindling number of Homo sapiens resentfully move to an old - species planet, to be cared for by androids programmed to feign interest in stories about prostates and half - remembered episodes of Perry Mason.

He also writes about those who study the birds and struggle to preserve the endangered species, which has dwindled in numbers from some 150,000 to less than 25,000.

Second, absent intentional measures to address the consequences of implicit bias, we will continue reading reports and articles about the minimal (and potentially dwindling) numbers of law firm partners of color.

The number of attorneys active in firms of two to five lawyers dwindled by 8 percent during that same time period, but a boutique firm isn't about size.

About 12 percent thought that buyers were hesitating because of bleak economic conditions and a high number of 43 percent believed that rising prices and dwindling affordability is hampering buying activity.