Sentences with phrase «became reduced in size»

Once the lizards began burrowing, their arms and legs gradually became reduced in size and they eventually took on a superficially snakelike appearance.

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It soon became clear, however, that implementing the various recommendations and agreements was being opposed by conservatives in the KMT, who feared these measures would dilute their party's control of the government, and by Nationalist generals, who objected to reducing the size of their armies.

If you have only been following this blog within the past month or two, or have become a new subscriber to our Wagner Daily stock newsletter within the same period, you have only seen us operate primarily in «capital preservation mode,» where we enter all new trades with both reduced share size and tight stops.

Morbidity and mortality The reported risk of food allergy at 12 months of age was statistically significantly reduced among exclusively breastfed infants relative to mixed breastfed infants by 81 % (RR 0.19, 95 % CI [0.08 to 0.48], p = 0.00036; 1 study / 135 infants); however, when double - challenged with food in the same study, the effect size was reduced and became non-significant (RR 0.77, 95 % CI [0.25 to 2.41], p = 0.66).

«Those caribou herds that shift their range to remain within their habitat and those herds that are reduced in size and become isolated from neighboring herds are those most threatened with loss of genetic diversity,» said Hundertmark.

Increased human fishing pressure has reduced the size of the population of scalloped hammerhead populations to a negligible size in the Gulf of California, with the species becoming extremely rare in the Mexican Pacific.

«We became interested in studying the effects of economic downturns on public spending during the Great Recession of the late 2000s, when media outlets were filled with stories about states cutting optional Medicaid benefits, increasing school class sizes and reducing course offerings,» said Ho, who is also a professor of economics at Rice and a professor of medicine at Baylor College of Medicine.

She then starts to break audience's hearts when she recalls her forced downsizing experience and its impact on her life and how she'd always hoped to meet that Norwegian doctor who, seeing how her downsizing had reduced her pain due to her lost leg — realized it's the first time he'd never been so proud of his downsizing efforts when he heard her story and realized she was relieved from unbearable pain only to find herself on the margin of a downsized society that, even though became smaller in size, its ego and indifference are bigger than ever.

Also, if a position has appreciated to the point that it has become too big in accounts we may reduce the position size.

In fact, a disproportionally high rate of sterility or reduced litter size in «high end» purebred dogs became evidenIn fact, a disproportionally high rate of sterility or reduced litter size in «high end» purebred dogs became evidenin «high end» purebred dogs became evident.

The core of SimCity was still intact and completely functional, even if the reduced city size made it difficult to do what you might do in the older titles, but the always - online functionality crippled a game that had the potential to become a positive step forward.

In the meantime, and for some time now, the comments on Black's blog have been becoming increasingly skeptical and mocking which is why the BBC has decided to reduce them to mega-tweet size.

The standard guide, though becoming out of date, remains «Eviction and Rent Arrears» (pdf), 1995, (without appendices to reduce the download size); see also a historical account of eviction (pdf) in Scotland.

Several of the improvements are aimed at reducing the time it takes to create a bitcoin full node, which many predict will become even harder with SegWit activated, since the change increases the blockchain's block size (the amount of transaction data that can be stored in each block).