(1) The charity said it had struggled financially because philanthropic and public donations had shrunk at a time when it had to meet the practical and emotional needs of an increasing number of high-risk vulnerable children who are not being supported by the statutory system.
(2) At the same time, for many on low pay the last several years have seen the cost of living soar as their wage packet has shrunk.
(3) Slim margin of appreciation The third issue is that the Court is, quite rightly, determined to make sure that consistent standards of rights are upheld across the 47 member states … but at times it has felt to us in national governments that the 'margin of appreciation' – which allows for different interpretations of the Convention – has shrunk ... and that not enough account is being taken of democratic decisions by national parliaments.
(4) If Heathrow were shrunk or closed, he says, the investment that has gone into the airport would be squandered.
(5) The concept of the "big society" in which the state shrunk and private or voluntary groups grew to fill gaps is also laid at Hilton's door as an over-arching election theme which few voters understood.
(6) The best-known editions are the military versions covered in red plastic and shrunk to fit the pocket of an army uniform – hence the book's nickname in the west.
(7) Germany draws around a third of its gas and oil imports from Russia; Germany is Russia’s biggest trade partner after China, even if trade volume shrunk in 2013 for the first time in years.
(8) Over the past five years the total budget will have shrunk from almost £9m to a little over £5m if these latest cuts go ahead.
(9) Hepatocyte mitochondria are swollen at 6 h and shrunk at 24 h of poisoning.
(10) A year later the same sample of 192 patients (shrunk by 63 patients due to releases from the clinic and cases of death, non availability) was reexamined by the same physicians.
(11) After 60 Gy local irradiation, the tumor was moderately shrunk with a significant reduction in vascularity.
(12) After the war, Auerbach notes mournfully, the standardisation of ideas, and greater and greater specialisation of knowledge gradually narrowed the opportunities for the kind of investigative and everlastingly inquiring kind of philological work that he had represented; and, alas, it's an even more depressing fact that since Auerbach's death in 1957 both the idea and practice of humanistic research have shrunk in scope as well as in centrality.
(13) Over the past two years, every income group has shrunk except for the extremes: those earning less than £15,000 a year and those earning more than £70,000 a year.” Simon Hogg, a Labour councillor in Wandsworth, added: “It’s wrong to pressure local families to leave Battersea to move to Birmingham.
(14) The epidermis thinned, sebaceous glands regressed, dermal thickness was reduced, horn-filled cysts shrunk, subcutaneous fat disappeared, and regression of the muscular layer occurred.
(15) Few English midwives, however, consider themselves "radical midwives" or agree with ARM that their role has shrunk and training suffered.
(16) At times he seemed to be suffering the same problem that Lineker experienced in 1992, when chances that would ordinarily be taken are rushed and the frame of the goal suddenly appears to have shrunk by a few inches.
(17) Mr. Catsambas noted that the public sector still needs to be shrunk as a result.
(18) TV budgets have shrunk since the days of Blackadder and Python.
(19) Figures released this week suggest that the extent of Arctic sea ice has shrunk to its sixth lowest level on record, prompting scientists to warn that manmade climate change was bringing the days of an ice-free Arctic closer.
(20) 3 Bake for 45–50 minutes until the cake has browned and the sides have shrunk away from the tin.
Shrunken
Definition:
() of Shrink
() p. p. & a. from Shrink.
Example Sentences:
(1) We considered and discussed the case histories in comparison with the clinical symptoms and the consequent therapy of 47 urological patients with unilaterally shrunken kidney.
(2) They agreed to only elect three members of the group’s shrunken board, with the rest appointed from the world of business.
(3) At autopsy, the liver was found to be small, shrunken, and scarred; histological sections demonstrated postnecrotic cirrhosis.
(4) (iii) Shrunken gels give sharper photographic images and provide better interlane protein band comparisons.
(5) At first, the pelvis is totally exposed to a homogenous irradiation, so the shrunken tumor can more easily be arrived by curietherapy.
(6) This will be the ninth episode, in which Jenna Coleman's Clara must lug the Doctor and his Tardis around in her handbag after they get shrunken down to miniature size.
(7) The Silastic ball was severely deformed and shrunken.
(8) Similar amounts of Nac were gained in 3 h by ouabain-treated cells exposed to the K ionophore valinomycin or by cells osmotically shrunken.
(9) The remaining spongiosa, depleted and shrunken, is misleading in its appearance, resembling a basalis layer.
(10) Physiological changes in dehydration consist of rigidity of the connective tissue (vascular system and lungs) and intracellular fluid loss to the extracellular spaces, resulting in dry mucous membranes, shrunken muscle cells in the lips and the tongue, soft eyes, and adverse effects to the central nervous system.
(11) It is suggested that in the nucleus basalis in Alzheimer's disease, large neurons are not completely lost; many are shrunken and thus excluded from the previous studies of large cells counted in Nissl-stained material.
(12) The service itself, running at more than two hours, was an almost flawless spectacle, yet curiously shrunken.
(13) The influences of Li or protons, however, are so strong as to preempt the volume effects, so that the pathway can be activated even in swollen cells and deactivated in shrunken ones.
(14) Free spherules and shrunken degenerative forms were present as well.
(15) The apical blebs were still present, but they were shrunken and their content appeared condensed.
(16) Its long-term effectiveness confirms the view, not widely held, that one primary cause of involutional entropion is a shrunken and atrophic tarsal plate.
(17) Rohon-Beard cells could be labeled, more or less shrunken, until stage 55.
(18) Affected axoplasm was often vacuolated and shrunken, with loss of microtubules and microfilaments and separation of the axoplasmic membrane from the myelin sheath.
(19) The most common criteria for distinguishing non-bursting atretic follicles were the extremely shrunken, irregularly shaped oocytes and the separation of the granulosa from the theca.
(20) These shrunken stored rabbit cells could also be reinflated using nystatin, so that their mean cell volume, mean corpuscular haemoglobin concentration, average cell densities and filterabilities were restored to normal values.