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Examples of wither


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Both of these findings indicate that the patient's brain has shrunk and withered.
The bags remained until the stigmas were withered and considered no longer receptive and checks for fruit set were then made.
The 1970s saw the withering away of postgraduate gender segregation.
All told, the bakufu's monopoly on the export of marine products that had been cultivated and protected for a century withered and eventually died.
The figure has a withered right leg and dropped foot, which are typical of poliomyelitis (fig001pmn).
The above cases not only survived but also demonstrated the remarkable capacity to expand as other programs withered under the deregulation agenda.
Cases of the present sample confirm the supposition that process in personam ' withered away ' over the course of the seventeenth century.
Such narrow-mindedness was perhaps one of the reasons why consumers' co-operation withered in the twentieth century.
Vegetation withered; livestock grew sickly and perished.
The millet has withered in the field.
However, with the withering away of the neural and immunological views of the body, the genetic view is becoming increasingly the sole (soul) determinant of selfhood.
The legitimacy of domination has withered away, and the public resistance and challenge of power has created an awakening among broader segments of the dominated group.
Stinking vapour tainted the atmosphere of the entire island; - even the grass which no cinder rain had stifled completely withered up; - the fish perished in the poisoned sea.
The notion of national systems is still such a powerful convention amongst economic actors to the extent that it is hard to envisage it withering away.
Agreements have not withered and customs have not staled their infinite variety.
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Possibly, there could be a withering away of a measure of unemployment; the spectre will withdraw for a bit and will then reappear.
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Does she see those schools withering on the vine as pupils move out of them?
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Every ingenious argument is produced, and withering scorn is poured on those who dare to attack the concept of a continuing monopoly.
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We do not want a withering away of the railways through inadequate investment and a lowering of safety standards of rolling stock, terminals and stations.
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You get your success, but the moment you have it, it withers in your hand.
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A car has become a necessity with the withering away of public transport systems.
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I believe in alliances withering away, but withering equally swiftly or equally slowly.
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The last few years have been a period in which the growth plans of even the most successful developing countries have withered.
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After the direct elections, that withered on the vine and so did our policy.
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I am afraid that my knowledge has slightly withered on the vine.
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They have not seen the withering away of the state.
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An airline network is not a static but a dynamic thing, and if it does not grow it withers away.
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The distortions which have undoubtedly been caused by mortgage relief in the past are now withering on the vine.
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However, in failing to provide a buoyant recycled form of revenue to the industry, they are condemning it to penury and to withering away.
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If the withering away of such machines is indeed the objective, the report should say as much.
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When we centralise power, we encourage the worst instincts of humankind and produce the kind of state that we now see withering away.
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We have heard from a number of speakers that it is withering on the vine anyway.
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I refer to the days when community flourished and egoism withered.
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The theory that it has withered on the vine is not true.
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Phased, as distinct from withering on the vine.
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Who withered an opponent with more graceful suavity?
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Otherwise, we would be disrespecting the sacrifices of the security forces, discouraging their actions and withering the popular spirit of respecting the law.
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When they thought it would fail, all the rest, in all the domains of human activity, has withered, perished or collapsed.
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As our industry has shrunk, the budgets available, company by company, for research and development and for training have withered.
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First, it could be argued that the old law has withered and died and that there is now no point in resurrecting it.
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The withering away of preferences has not been by our will, but by their will all the way through.
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The legalised tampering with wills is another example of the withering away of the individual's rights.
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We have also seen that those parties have withered away again.
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We might wait until the public schools, as one newspaper said recently, "withered away" and improve our own schools, as we must, steadily.
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The matter of withering on the vine is quite interesting.
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We had well-built men with their biceps and triceps completely withered, and frequently they used to die.
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The consequences can be seen in extremes of weather such as more storms, withering heat and damaging floods.
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The board's influence has withered away and its ability to influence industry has been undermined by the exemption certificate system.
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The passage of that legislation may well start the withering away and finally end support for that institution.
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During the past 30 years the whole countryside has changed from being withered and blighted to blossoming almost like the rose.
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We are hopeful that in this sector the governance of globalisation is flourishing, and not withering away, as is unfortunately happening in other sectors.
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The fact is that 20 years of over-full employment have not withered restrictive labour practices.
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I experienced the great depressions of the 1920s and the 1930s, when the once massive trade, to which reference has been made, inevitably withered away.
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He prophesied that the triumph of communism would lead to the withering away of the state.
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What bothers me is that now, for one reason or another which we need not go into, this debate has withered away.
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Very often those firms have not grown but withered.
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Unless one participates in democracy, there is a risk of it withering away.
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His debate has been brought to fruition, whereas mine withered by an unexpected frost at the last moment.
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I should like it to he strengthened more because if not it will become weak and withered like the other lines he has spoken about.
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The party opposite formed the government for 18 years, with big majorities that withered away at the end.
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Perhaps the fig leaf has withered to expose the stark reality.
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History is frequent in her desire for the withering away of the powers of the state.
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Our partners are building fleets in anticipation of the 1980s, but our fleets are withering away.
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We are tied to an uncompetitive, introvert regional economic bloc whose share of world trade is already withering on the vine.
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Compulsory annuitisation is implicitly withering away as the result of the changes, which is welcome.
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The withering away would take so long that it would not facilitate the needs of the consumer but, rather, work to his disadvantage.
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If we do not, we will have to take responsibility for the withering away of that process.
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If that stands, there is hope for us; if it withers, we are done for.
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What is sad is that that consensus seems to have declined and in some respects withered away.
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We understand why some of those goals have withered away in the past three or four years.
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There are historical precedents for taxes voluntarily being paid by members of the royal family and those contributions subsequently withering on the vine.
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At the same time, as a necessary condition of our present attitude, ours have been withering away.
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I would like to be proved wrong in my view that withering on the vine may be one of the lines of approach.
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They see romantic love withering on the bough and all the rest of it.
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Parents would have fallen over themselves to have that type of education provided for their area and all other schools would have withered away.
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I am pleased that it has been withering on the vine at £30,000.
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Opposition promises are withering on the vine, and they now realise that they are talking nonsense.
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As the public sector grows faster this industrial and commercial judgment is withered away and this is a danger to the economy.
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The number of local authority personnel has not massively withered away.
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From then on the whole organisation had withered and writhed and produced less and less effective reports.
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Industry is not withering to-day because of a shortage of capital.
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Well, the leaves are now withering on the trees.
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I thought, if one part of the community withered, the whole of the rest of the body politic suffered.
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I am afraid that my patience has withered away.
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There is a withering away of the transport services of the countryside.
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She demolished him with withering scorn and, in my opinion, with all the wrong arguments.
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The jobber's wings may have been clipped, but the jobber withered only slowly.
Leaves on most dicot trees withered and fell within two days after the storm.
Even more importantly, the authors' expectations of the withering away of the opposition parties following their defeat in 1992 have certainly not come to pass.
Well, one must hope that any heretics present either withered away or came to their senses.
A flower is an ideal metaphor for this: for it withers, scattering its petals, just when we find it to have attained its optimum beauty.
Many schools of thought flourished, each within its own professional environment, while others withered away, unable to find a niche within which they could develop.
After the leaves had withered, the green fruits were left on the plots to mature further before they were collected, simulating farmer practice.
A withering burst of fire was directed into the wall directly behind them, spewing out thousands of steel fragments.
A community newspaper inevitably reflects the opinions of a majority of its readership or it does not sell and withers away.
Toward his more scientifically inclined colleagues he affects a patrician and withering contempt.
Three factors are likely to militate against such a development and prevent the collectivist ethos of unions withering away with the spread of individual services.
Over time, however, it developed into a learned society, as its other functions, especially that of mutual aid, withered.
His right arm was severely atrophied (withered) a condition he had for most of his life, possibly even from birth.
He also poured scorn upon other members of the parliamentary classes and was withering in his condemnation of the present (whig) ministry.
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