Sentences with phrase «for dwindling»

For two years, a shortage of sellers like the Bakers has propped up prices across the U.S. as shoppers jostled for a dwindling supply of houses.

All of the forces that drive a locality into an affordable housing crunch — a strong economy, growing population and rising costs for dwindling land — are especially acute in metropolitan Washington, D.C.

Board dues are being raised to make up for loss in membership this will only cause more board members to leave even more charging them for dwindling membership...... Times are changing.

That's how analysts at Deutsche Bank AG characterize money managers» appetite for the dwindling supply of the securities — which are backed by loans for hotels, malls and offices — that has slashed spreads.

A study by PricewaterhouseCoopers suggests that the woes of the department store industry stem from too many department store names competing for a dwindling supply of dollars.

The two major reasons for the dwindling numbers are: 1) Reduced number of agents in the industry, therefore less of a perceived need for management; and 2) Mergers and acquisitions have reduced the number of offices and therefore the overall costs of management.

He blames the real estate broker owners and the real estate associations for our dwindling real estate commission, from the good old days of six per cent to the present deteriorating situation.

I'm writing to apologize for the dwindling contributions to the priming of the national pump by the Douglas family.

The question for both these companies is whether growth in new businesses can make up for the dwindling of their bread - and - butter legacy stuff.

Are lawyers and large law firms doomed to a perpetual «Hunger Game»... forever competing for a dwindling pool of partnership opportunities, clients, profits and reliable strategies for the future?

This close concentration — combined with the intrusion of sub-Arctic species — will increase the competition among species dramatically, making it ever more difficult for the dwindling survivors to find sufficient food and reproduce.

Poor people, who often depend more immediately on natural resources and are less able to compete for dwindling supplies, bear the heaviest burden.

In the bitter competition for dwindling energy sources, the less developed countries without fossil fuel reserves of their own will inevitable be the losers.

While Americans are burning less coal, Asian demand is booming, so if companies can find a way to export their excess supply, it's a win - win for their dwindling profit margins!

In addition to competing for a dwindling supply of CO2, photosynthesis consumes the limited supplies of nutrients.

1 New York gallery flashback Markets of all kinds got a bad rap this year, but New York's galleries bucked the broadsides with historical shows of such quality and focus they gave local museums a run for their dwindling money.

Set in 2047, in a world where global mega corporations have taken over governments and companies fight it out in a battle for dwindling resources.

War Conflict is a World War 2 themed real time strategy game where players must ruthlessly fight each other for dwindling resources.

Mars has become a battlefield for corporations such as Aurora and Abundance; fight for dwindling resources such as water.

It might be just as ineffective as all my letters were back in 1995, but I like to recall a time when I honestly believed that I'd sway a company into localizing a complex and potentially unprofitable game for the dwindling Super NES market just because I'd put something into an envelope and mailed it.

Will it be a return to grace for the dwindling era of sandbox MMO gaming which the single player games most align with?

I speak Spanish, so there's no excuse for dwindling large sums of time and money away on useless services.

Zip around first toward the market town of Sampalan; just before you get there is the Friends of the National Park Foundation, which runs a conservation programme for the dwindling Bali starling population.

The competitive job market forces college graduates to take graduate school level classes just to compete for the dwindling number of open positions.

Many of these books will be marginal or won't have withstood the test of time, but supply will increase even more as trad pubs try to duke it out for dwindling reader dollars.

All of this is a bit ironic because, in a small way, Schmitt is responsible for the dwindling practice of the communication form he so reveres.

The state joins dozens of others in which public higher education competes for dwindling state funding based on outcomes, not just enrollment.

All this money that Danny Boy and Pryor «need» for their dwindling school budgets and the damn thing is that all the big boys want is to leach our tax dollars out of the public schools into their profits and turn our public schools into «What's Left Academies».

The main cause for their dwindling population is the destruction of their habitat.

The five days he spends there, alone but for dwindling supplies, a small digital camera, and a blunt knife, are envisioned by Boyle as a visceral smear of panic, excretions, mirages, and epiphanies.

The series, which was renewed through a fifth season in mid-2013, may be nearing its end, if not for viewership declines (ratings have been hard to come by and never very impressive) than for a dwindling supply of creativity.

Yazdi Tantra, a computer consultant in Mumbai, runs theparsimatch.com, one of a number of websites for the dwindling community of followers of the ancient Zoroastrian faith.

Muller is quick to say that the gift was not a bandaid cure for a dwindling relationship.

The Pentagon itself has described climate change as an «immediate» risk and major threat multiplier, one that could cause crops to fail, spark mass migrations and increase conflict for dwindling water resources (to say nothing of the threat sea level rise poses to U.S. naval bases around the world).

Today, as scientists look for replacements for our dwindling stock of antibiotics, evolution is never far from their minds.

They help us drive around, call our friends and power the planet, says Richard Webb, so we need to find alternatives for dwindling supplies — and fast

The President's assertions come at a time when it has received a backlash for the dwindling growth of the agric sector.

But the commission also suggested allowing more private funding to make up for dwindling state and federal investment in hospitals.

Until then card - carrying party members had only been able to write on their pet subjects for a dwindling presence on the thinktank scene, the Centre for Reform.

For the dwindling list of friends and supporters of former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, last weekend brought a flurry of familiar phone calls and email messages.

As for dwindling landfill space, Goodman insists that land is available practically everywhere but that political paralysis makes it nearly impossible to find new landfills.

In a single hour, a manager might order chicken for a dwindling freezer, join the prep line in a backed - up kitchen, revise employee schedules, fill a slot left open by a team member who called in sick, soothe an unhappy customer and call a repairman to fix a broken oven.

The rest of this post is for the dwindling band of citizens who adhere to the quaint notion that politics should be about policies.

A pop - up advertisement may be annoying to one person, but it could represent a source of revenue for a dwindling media industry desperate for cash.

But improving paper's image may — at best — slow the decline in demand, not reverse it, leaving the industry grappling for ways to compensate for a dwindling customer base.

Lipinski's win is a blow to the anti-Trump resistance, which has been fueled by energy from the party's base, and it's a relief for the dwindling Blue Dog Coalition of conservative House Democrats, which hopes to make a comeback this year.

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On Facebook, organic reach has been on death's door for a while now - and it will continue to dwindle to zero in the near future.

As Northam cruised to his nine - point victory over Gillespie, I couldn't help but think that maybe it's time for newspapers to stop telling their dwindling number of subscribers how to vote.

But if deposits dwindle at a bank, it might have to pay a lot more for funding from other sources, or it might have to curtail lending, which would crimp its profits.

Schneider: We can't speak for everyone, but if you just look at the market, the number of those and the money they're bringing in is dwindling.