Over the past few weeks she'd withered in fast-motion, like a movie playing at double-speed.
Rival ideas withered, among them the thorium liquid-fuel reactor, powered by molten fluoride salt containing thorium.
In the meantime, an exceptionally hot, dry summer has withered nearly three-quarters of this year's crops.
Tragedy again visited when John contracted polio at age six, leaving him with a withered right leg.
The King of Sentences, unmistakably, though withered like a shrunken-apple fetish of the noble cipher in the photograph.
Most investors have accepted that their savings have withered or disappeared and hopes of a quick recovery have faded.
They have so far caught or killed twenty-two, and some cartels seem to have withered after losing their leaders.
Technical supports withered against the onslaught of this programmed, logical and mindless selling.
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The hoped-for bonanza in federal reimbursements withered amid funding cuts and increased competition.
The practice of subagency withered away, and disclosure rules were put into place.
They simply were not accepted by the faithful and withered away over time.
The landscape in the reserve is parched, the acacia scrub withered and the soil dry, thirsty for the coming rains.
One immediate discovery is that his skeleton does not have a "withered arm" as depicted by Shakespeare, the researchers said.
We stayed in a wooden cabin that stood alone by the shore and was painted the brown of withered leaves.
However, there was no trace of a withered arm or other abnormalities described in the more extreme characterisations of the king.
Without a more secure body of prop-erty rights, China's impressive boom inevi-tably would have wound down as innovation and entrepreneurial risk-taking withered.
Kirsch is an entrepreneur and former chief executive of Infoseek, a search engine that has withered away since being acquired by Disney.
In large swathes of the country, the state has simply withered away.
Animals have also starved to death because villagers, for eight months, have eaten the plants in the wild after crops withered in the field.
Feudalism had withered in most of western Europe by the middle of the 16th century, but serfdom didn't end formally in Russia until 1861.
Now that the enthusiasm has withered away, the rumor mill has shifted its focus to a more common target: the release of the next iPhone.
With one leg was shorter than the other and one arm withered and useless he seems a more likely a candidate for a Napoleon complex.
Meanwhile, a type of mortgage that was popular among first-time buyers during the housing boom has withered further, following announcements made by lenders on Budget Day.
The double yellow line that has been my guide is gone now, replaced by a faded, intermittent dash in a road that has withered even further.
Analysts at Credit Suisse reckon that banks in Ireland may be especially profitable in coming years because competition has withered as a result of the crisis.
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Their European brethren in other sectors withered in the face of a widespread economic slowdown that would leave customers with little to spend on their goods and services.
Sun, now an underdog with its proprietary technology and withered market capitalization, can't mount the consulting-heavy approaches of HP or IBM nor match the marketing clout of Microsoft.
Any shot at a pullback withered by the open though, as narrow pre-market losses reversed to a 1.5% gain for GM in the first five minutes of trading.
But the companies didn't get along, and both alliances withered.
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