1.   But as international attention waned, they began to fight over dwindling resources, and a bitter feud erupted over lucrative black-market activities.

2.   But it could just as easily be seen as part of an elaborate cat-and-mouse game, with each nominee trying to lure the other into expending dwindling resources unwisely.

3.   Congress and the Clinton administration directed the agency to spend a disproportionate share of its dwindling resources on monitoring overpayment of tax credits to low-paid workers.

4.   For the teen-agers, growing up at a time of dwindling resources for arts education, they are a glimpse into the rarefied realms of esthetics.

5.   He also provides the financing, badly needed by hospitals with dwindling resources, to get clinics off the ground.

6.   He said that in a time of dwindling resources money could better be spent to encourage the adoptions of hard-to-place children whose care is costly.

7.   In addition, dwindling financial resources will make it difficult for him to campaign in the larger states.

8.   Regulations and dwindling resources in the Northwest have shifted wood demand to the South in recent years.

9.   Scientists who planned to conduct experiments in medicine, biology and physics aboard the station are distraught by the dwindling resources to carry out their experiments.

10.   They point to the fact that dozens of Ohio counties, faced with dwindling resources from the state, have cut or are threatening to cut anti-poverty programs.