The flow of new admissions into the prisons has thus begun to dry up.
Persian society had lost its political stability, causing trade routes to dry up and wealth to decline.
With interest rates now rising, this ready source of spending power may be about to dry up.
Aid agencies warn that food and fuel supplies to some parts of northern Mali are starting to dry up.
The remedies, however, are still alarming: hemlock to dry up milk when weaning, hare's brain to be rubbed on teething gums.
Trading volume in the market tends to dry up as investors wish neither to realise losses nor to hunt for bargains.
With money for new weapons likely to dry up as threats recede and deficit reduction begins to bite, BAE Systems Inc.
Volume and volatility could begin to dry up as we head into options expiration tomorrow and the Thanksgiving holiday next week.
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It depends on taxes and remittances from Eritreans living abroad but, after the disillusion of defeat, these may begin to dry up.
The rains that fell were cold, persistent, and slow to dry up.
But as the year progressed, he said, demand began to dry up.
The DI trust fund is expected to dry up in 2018, 22 years before the trust fund for Social Security retirees does.
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But the problem here is different: they usually last until March but this year are expected to dry up by the end of December.
As the conventional and cheap oil and gas start to dry up in the Middle East, a bigger, even better opportunity seeks to replace it.
She says it was sometimes difficult to secure work during the boom years because of high competition, and the recession caused business to dry up.
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Hence, secondary risk does exist for the U.S. which could translate to another breakdown in the global economic machine if credit starts to dry up again.
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That is to say that the SMS firehose of cash that phone carriers have been sipping from for so many years was always going to dry up.
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To raise the odds of self-funding, first movers have an advantage because the credit, funding, and equity markets will continue to dry up as the crisis unfolds.
In the video game industry, endless sequels for a popular franchise are standard procedure, but the music game genre has just seemed to dry up in recent years.
In North Carolina, the problem seemed to dry up when election officials issued a memo about using paper towels, said Gary Bartlett, executive director of the North Carolina Election Board.
As U.S. money market funds become more risk averse in the face of renewed sovereign debt woes in Europe, dollar liquidity has begun to dry up in the Old Continent.
Managers could not run their businesses against the laws of economics, and officials could not pilfer from them indefinitely, if their source of cheap bank credit were to dry up.
Geoff Chapple's men continued to exert their stranglehold on the match but the chances started to dry up, although Robert Kember went close with a blistering 18-yard strike which drifted wide.
"King tides and sea surges are floodling the island to a knee high and it is difficult for the salt water to dry up, " says Ursula Rakova, a Carteret islander and campaigner.
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Chetan Ahya, an economist at Morgan Stanley, thinks India has its problems, but that the weak rupee mainly reflects the trauma in global markets, which has caused capital flows to dry up.
CSFB, thinks that discretionary spending on fine jewellery and other luxuries will be the first to dry up and take the longest to recover, just as it did after the Gulf war.
Meanwhile, aid agency Oxfam has warned that food and fuel supplies to some parts of northern Mali are starting to dry up as many predominantly Arab and Tuareg traders have fled fearing reprisal attacks.
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