1.  Bio-engineered plants might soon be used to produce plastics and other substances now made using diminishing supplies of petroleum in dangerous, polluting petrochemical plants.

2.  Galeana spends her days eyeing the diminishing supply of corn on her front porch and thinking about what the future holds for her children.

3.  With flaming meteors devastating the landscape and water in diminishing supply, Aladar must lead a group of misfit dinosaurs to the safety of their nesting grounds.

4.  Soybean futures prices jumped on the Chicago Board of Trade Wednesday amid worries about diminishing supply and continued hot weather in important growing regions of Brazil and Argentina.

5.  The archdiocese faces tight finances, a diminishing supply of priests and nuns, and a radical change in the population to which it ministers.

6.  Bosnian Serb forces had earlier Monday reneged on their weekend pledge to lift their blockade of fuel convoys aimed at replenishing diminishing UN supplies.