Sentences with phrase «shrink from»

«No honest and competent solicitor would have ignored the many warning signs that the exemplified transactions were highly suspect... [the first appellant's] conduct was so far beyond the standards to be expected of an honest and competent solicitor as to justify condemnation and it must not shrink from that conclusion that by the standards laid down for the profession it amounted to dishonesty.»

As the glaciers start to shrink from their southern extremities, their white tops reflect less sunlight back into space.

The Gavião first made contact with the djala — the non-indigenous outsiders — in the 1940s, and they'd seen their forest shrink from a massive, unending world to a small patch surrounded by farms and fields.

«The extrapolar glaciation of the Earth will be decaying at rapid, catastrophic rates — its total area will shrink from 500,000 to 100,000 km & sup2; by the year 2350.

Americans don't shrink from a fight.

Its total area will likely shrink from the present 500,000 to 100,000 km2 by the year 2035 (WWF, 2005).

Christenberry didn't shrink from telling a story on himself about stalking the artist in the city.

«to be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world and the shrink from it desertion» (Samuel Beckett's: Proust and Three Dialogues with Georges Duthuit)

Overall range of motion becomes decreased, and the leg muscles begin to atrophy, or shrink from lack of use.

That means we can never shrink from confronting the problems.

Fear of dogs may be, in fact, one of the chief causes why city dwellers unaccustomed to animals, and people from cultures which shrink from dogs are often bit.

If you shrink from buying an undervalued company solely because it might miss consensus estimates for the next quarter, you may not be a value investor.

USA's share of the world GDP is projected to shrink from 23 % to 18 % over the same period.

The credit counseling world has just be slowly ticking away and watching their funding shrink from creditors.

I think the current account deficit does shrink from here, because the cost of buying US debts, and not buying US goods is getting prohibitive.

Shrink from $ 45 to as low as $ 30 / month with Shrinking Payments.

Intel's upcoming Ivy Bridge processor based on the world's first tri-gate transistor is going to be more than just a die shrink from 32nm to 22nm.

Extroverts I've worked with have been so «big» in meetings I shrink from trying to force my way into the converstions.

Fleming doesn't shrink from the Prince of Humbug's dark side, either, painting him as a heavy drinker, a potential corrupter of the dwarf Tom Thumb (who was smoking cigars by age seven), and a cruel husband who hastily married a woman 40 years his junior.

Tom Peters, GM's performance vehicle design director, spent some time with us recently and didn't shrink from responding to the criticism of the Stingray's taillights.

Who ever authored this should shrink from public view... for all of ever.

Schools that don't backfill don't replace those students, allowing the size of a grade cohort to shrink from year to year.

«And while that's no reason not to implement promising new approaches or to shrink from experimentation, it puts an onus on policy makers and administrators to bring generous measures of training, support and patience to the task.»

In response to infractions and rule breaking great and small, these schools do not shrink from using conventional sanctions, including in - school and out - of - school suspensions, community service, corrective exercises, and occasional expulsion.

California doesn't shrink from big problems — we solve them.

As with Harriet's autobiography — on which it is based — I Was Born a Slave: The Story of Harriet Jacobs does not shrink from describing the abuses that Harriet endured during her years of slavery.

That's an opportunity to seize, not shrink from.

When told they must spend more money, Democrats, seldom the party to shrink from such a task, thank the court for throwing them into a delectable briar patch.

The size of the staff in each district office could shrink from more than 100 employees to fewer than 60.

Viland, who often arrives at school and flips the sign on her office door to «The witch is in» at around 4:30 a.m., isn't the type to shrink from a challenge.

Nightjohn is a PG - 13 Disney movie, but it's also a full - blooded Charles Burnett film: family - friendly fare that doesn't shrink from showing slavery's horrors, an adolescent's coming - of - age tale told with an adult's sense of historical reality and moral complexity.

The resulting interplay of ruthless restraint and unavoidable passion, plus the film's refusal to shrink from depicting the inevitable horrors of physical deterioration, is devastating.

Revolutionary technology out of Sweden has made it possible for humans to shrink from their full - size form to about five inches.

We're immediately thrown into the world of Peter and Lorna, two documentary filmmakers who refuse to shrink from their thesis, dead - set on exposing a phony cult leader who becomes more convincing every single day.

Penn's daring is that he doesn't shrink from the investigation's lurid, exploitative elements; he uses the victim's class - room drawing of a» giant» in a way that spooks us.

Penn's daring is that he doesn't shrink from the investigation's lurid, exploitative elements; he uses the victim's classroom drawing of a» giant» in a way that spooks us.

Enamored as it is with Chris's worldview, Into the Wild does not shrink from its consequences.

... while Take Shelter doesn't shrink from taking up an audience and playing with it, it's made with an exceptional eye and ear sympathetic to the anxieties that it dramatizes.

Not one to shrink from championing self - expression, she encourages single women to revel in being the most sought after girl at the dance of life.

Do not shrink from the possibility in meeting the right match.

Once again, you watch your workout window shrink from an hour to... mere minutes.

They become a mirror that exposes new dimensions of you, parts that you may relish in or shrink from.

Skiniotis, however, is not one to shrink from a challenge.

Judge Michael Harris told them: «I don't shrink from the analogy of describing what you were doing as intellectual joyriding.»

«Northern Pacific's tropical anoxic zone might shrink from climate change.»

For example, NSF saw its authorized spending level lowered from $ 8.2 billion to $ 7.5 billion for the 2011 fiscal year that begins in October — President Obama has requested the latter — and its 2015 authorization would shrink from $ 10.7 billion to $ 10.2 billion.

It is not for the faint - hearted, however, because Casti does not shrink from some mathematics that many will find challenging.

If a droplet of liquid is placed on any normal surface, it will begin to shrink from the top down.

Because of this, families and doctors often shrink from transplant options, particularly when it comes to treating children, and it will limit the extent to which the breakthroughs in gene therapy and gene editing will be applied, explained Scadden, who is a practicing hematologist at MGH and chairman of Harvard's Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology.

Not everyone is looking to shrink from long odds.