And America is already trying to persuade the rest of the world to swallow its Iraqi policy, with ever-dwindling success.

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At all major cities across America virtually all of the airport capacity is held ferociously by an ever-dwindling number of airlines and new carriers are precluded entry.

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This autumn's bidding for votes has shaken the implicit consensus, shared by all the parties, that the growing number of pensioners would put up with an ever-dwindling basic state pension.

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The question weighing on the minds of the ever-dwindling number of Turks who want to join the European Union is how to balance the fight against terror with the country's European aspirations.

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These days he runs against ever-dwindling fields -- on this occasion just three rivals went to the start, and that included stable companion Bullet Train, whose sole purpose in life is to give Frankel a flying start in his races then humbly fade into obscurity in the final furlongs.

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But they cannot ignore their dwindling numbers for ever.

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That safety, and indeed, the reliability and credibility of the nuclear deterrent will, accordingly, rely ever more critically on a dwindling number of highly skilled scientists, engineers and technicians in the U.S. nuclear weapons complex.

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There are signs that Philip Morris recognizes its conundrum: a continually dwindling market size and ever rising excise taxes.

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And it became evident that the battle for the dwindling chance of a miraculous recovery was going to leave him unable ever to go home again.

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