Sentences with phrase «shrinking number»

Some see the shrinking number of U.S. offices run by well - established brands as a sign of bigger, systematic changes ahead.

A key tool used to track the health of the economy and the commercial real estate market is being affected by the shrinking number of transactions, according to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for Real Estate...

Today, older workers in the legal profession and other industries are competing with younger job - seekers and Generation Y for a shrinking number of open positions.

Before the big changes that came with the shrinking number of reinsurance companies and before we were traumatized as a nation financially.....

Also of note to the ABA is the shrinking number of attorneys who serve in state legislatures across the United States.

The blame for too many lawyers each trying to make a living off a shrinking number of clients per lawyer rests with the universities with law schools (bloating up in size and failing virtually no one for the last nearly 20 years) and the government which blithely accepts this awful waste of scarce education resources, and which turns a blind eye to the horrendous social costs of it all).

The social, economic and environmental costs become clearest when considering the continuously shrinking number of farms in the U.S., the continuing loss of top soil and the decreasing availability of irrigation water in many areas.

Turbines in the US wind market will continue to get bigger as competition among the shrinking number of OEMs intensifies and developers seek a lower levelised cost of energy (LCOE), especially as the production tax credit (PTC) is phased out.

«Alex Epstein's book The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels documents the rapidly shrinking number of human beings killed by storms, floods and other climate events thanks largely to ever - growing industry, fueled mainly by oil, natural gas and coal,» says Stossel.

While they are doing this others need to protect the shrinking number of relatively healthy reefs so they will be around when the research bears fruit.

«a shrinking number of denialists fly into a rage when it's mentioned»... «the political climate is changing....

But he is shrinking the number of exhibitors (199 this year; down from 274 in 2011) to emphasize quality over quantity, he says.

The needs of the Park and Preserve can not be covered with an ever - shrinking number of federal dollars; and as a result, the Conservancy was created to work with the Park Service to support the needs that are not otherwise met.

My travel writing colleagues bemoan the shrinking number of newspapers and magazines buying freelance stories.

Inventory is tight and home values are rising, and it's easy to assume that the main culprit for shrinking inventory is a shrinking number of homes being listed for sale.

Given that a shrinking number of Canadians have employer - sponsored pension plans, RRSPs will provide thefoundation for many people's retirement savings.

The project helps to address the serious issue of the shrinking number of works freely available in the public domain.

No longer do they have to worry about being picked - up by Diamond and have to worry about a shrinking number of indy - friendly comic shop retailers ordering their comics.

It is extremely difficult to get noticed in the fast paced new world of eBooks and a shrinking number of book stores.

The Chevrolet Cruze, one of a shrinking number of models in which one can easily find a manual transmission, appears set to lose that option after the 2018 model year.

The shrinking number of teacher candidates comes at a difficult time.

These efforts presume that teachers need to perform all the duties and tasks now in place; helping them accomplish these tasks more effectively thus requires shrinking the number of students they must teach.

But the possibilities of international exchange continue to be challenging, because of changes in distribution patterns and methods of delivery: the shrinking number of «art houses» poses a threat to the continuity of theatrical release, but streaming services may prove to be the way in which we see any sort of «alternative» (be it independent, avant - garde, or foreign) cinema.

Amidst a harsh political climate and a shrinking number of students entering the field, Dr. Pizzorno and a group of dedicated graduates from NCMN founded Bastyr University in hopes of revitalizing the field with an emphasis on a science based approach.

He's not sure if ProMED is starting to miss things because of the shrinking number of local news sources.

The small and shrinking number of women on the NYC Council has sparked alarm for Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito and other female pols who see their ranks thinning.

As in anti-tobacco efforts, anti-corporal punishment activists have started squeezing spanking from the public sphere, shrinking the number of places where it is acceptable to swat a child.

Business models are changing and there is a finite, shrinking number of winery buyers, especially for small to medium wineries.

Five or six years ago, when enrollments in the three seminaries of these two denominations began to show a marked increase, there were dire warnings about the placement problems that were being created for the future with an increasing number of ministers for a shrinking number of congregations.

Yes, and to speed things up for the ever - shrinking number (yay!)

There are «a shrinking number of Internet locations for sexual images of minors.»

More disturbing to many, especially in the difficult ecumenical situation in Germany, where the shrinking number of Christians is almost evenly divided between Protestant and Catholic, he has said that the unity of the church perhaps requires a papacy and that quite possibly the only churches that will survive far into the third millennium are Catholic, Orthodox, and Evangelical rather than mainline Protestant.

The surface problem was, and is, too many clergy for a shrinking number of parishes.

Barbell industry structures consist of a relatively few giant corporations on one end, a narrow middle consisting of a shrinking number of mid-sized firms, and a large and growing number of small, micro and one person (solopreneur) firms on the other end.

While there are probably a few things Millennials themselves can do to beat back perfectionism (for the love of all that is holy, spend less time on social media, for instance), the underlying causes of this shift suggested by the study, including an increasingly terrifying scramble for a shrinking number of slots in the middle class, are something we're all going to have to address together.

After withdrawing from California in the late 1960s, it underwent management changes and restructuring, which shrank the number of stores to 1,572 by the end of the 1970s.

The chief feature of the Senate bill is that it would shrink the number of banks that received extra government monitoring because they are deemed so important to the economy.

Guneal, I am as amazed as you are that the Admin actually admonished a Wenger lover (yes, they do still exist, in rapidly shrinking numbers) for saying this site has become too Wenger out orientated.

In an effort to fulfill that promise, he has worked out a compromise with City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito and the Teamsters (who represent the horse carriage drivers) to shrink the number of horse carriages and house them in a more spacious stables in Central Park.

A spokeswoman for Mayor Bill de Blasio, who did not attend the speech, said the administration has already launched programs — such as fast - tracking gun cases — to shrink the number of Rikers detainees.

A Mark - Viverito spokesman said the speaker seeks to shrink the number of detainees awaiting trial but not do away with the jail system.

Turns out, a shrinking enrollment among the student body in Buffalo Public Schools does not equate to shrinking numbers of teachers and staff.

In 2013 the Lord Speaker suggested that «if we don't reform and shrink our numbers, the Lords will collapse under its own weight»; last year she pointed out that debates are «coming under increasing time pressure as more members wish to speak, all to the detriment of our ability to hold the government to account» (pay wall).

Reduce: Can you shrink the number of activities you need to do to feel fulfilled?

Next, tally up loans, debts, and expenses, and talk about how you can shrink this number.

Initially we started out with a $ 50,000 grant, but what we found is we could actually shrink that number down to $ 25,000 and put more of it into the retention efforts that we were doing.

This inevitably shrinks the number of middle - class students who remain to «integrate» with disadvantaged pupils.

As contract negotiations plod along between LA Unified and the teachers union, UTLA, the issue of class size reduction has taken on a new urgency for Superintendent Ramon Cortines, who plans to shrink the number of students in middle school and high school classrooms by the end of the year.

* UPDATED As contract negotiations plod along between LA Unified and the teachers union, UTLA, the issue of class size reduction has taken on a new urgency for Superintendent Ramon Cortines, who plans to shrink the number of students in middle school and high school classrooms by the end of the year.

Earlier this week, the Public Policy Forum released a report detailing the shrinking numbers in Milwaukee's teaching workforce.