The western terrestrial garter snake ( Thamnophis elegans ) in California is largely aquatic and depends heavily on two species of frog that are diminishing in numbers, the Yosemite toad ( Bufo canorus ) and the mountain yellow-legged frog ( Rana muscosa ), putting the snake's future at risk.

Entire families and towns were targeted and attacked with the goal of significantly diminishing their numbers and eventually eliminated them.

Urban life had generally grown less intense by the fourth quarter of the 4th century, and coins minted between 378 and 388 are very rare, indicating a likely combination of economic decline, diminishing numbers of troops, and problems with the payment of soldiers and officials.

professions has eroded steadily ; diminishing numbers of D. O.

A Muslim in Nanjing told Semedo that four famimlies of Jews converted to Islam since they were the last Jews in the area, their numbers diminishing.

The deteriorating quality and frequency of service discouraged rail travellers, whose numbers were also diminishing due to steadily increasing emigration.

The vervet monkey has a complex and fragile social system, its persecution is thought to have affected troop structures and diminishing numbers.

Hunting by humans and habitat loss are the two major factors in the species ' diminishing numbers.

Thus, today, only small numbers of young Bretons ( about 14, 000 as of 2011 ) have access to Breton language courses during their time in school, and that number is diminishing.

Following the closure of the hospital, and the diminishing numbers of patients seen from the war era, he continued to work with Gillies in private practice but was also appointed to the Westminster and Brompton Hospitals, London.

In the 15th century, the Tonkawa Tribe probably numbered around 5, 000 with their numbers diminishing to around 1, 600 by the late 17th century due to disease and warring with other tribes, most notably the Apache.

In the 1990s when Grand Prix racing faced diminishing numbers of competitors due to increasing costs, Roberts demanded that Yamaha provide engines to privateer teams in order to bolster the numbers of racers.

In June 1997, the school was closed mainly owing to diminishing pupil numbers and financial difficulties, having been seriously affected by the termination of government assisted places by the Labour government ; the grounds were sold to property developers for an undisclosed sum.

There was once a school but it closed due to diminishing numbers of children.

In 1932, however, Foden finally realised that the future was diesel, and changed their production almost immediately, though the production of steam vehicles continued in diminishing numbers until 1934.

Whale suffered from mood swings and grew increasingly and frustratingly more dependent on others as his mental faculties were diminishing.

Textbooks supporting the ideology of the military government were authorized by the government, diminishing the responsibilities of the Ministry of Education.

Upon the marriage of Servius to the king's daughter, and the general rise of Servius ' public stature, the sons of Ancus began to realise that their prospects of succeeding Tarquinius were diminishing.

The influence of the Zohar and the Kabbalah in Yemen, where it was introduced in the 17th century, gave rise to the Dor Daim movement, whose adherents believed that the core beliefs of Judaism were rapidly diminishing in favor of the mysticism of the Kabbalah.

Its main technical contribution was a masterful analysis of the issues of elasticity, consumer surplus, increasing and diminishing returns, short and long terms, and marginal utility ; many of the ideas were original with Marshall, others were improved version of ideas by W. S. Jevons and others.

Since the law did not distinguish, for marital purposes, between ruler and subjects, historically marriages between royalty and the noble heiresses to great fiefs became the norm, helping to aggrandize the House of Capet while gradually diminishing the number of large domains held in theoretical vassalage by nobles who were, in practice, virtually independent of the French crown.

Another example is at Muggier, which was by at the base, and is even now high, and it is clear that both it and the Birs were built with diminishing stages, presenting a series of grand platforms, decreasing in length as they ascended, and leaving a comparatively small one at top for the temple cell.

Most of the big bands were diminishing, but Louis was able to resist for a few months.

The following ten years saw five European Congresses where disputes were resolved with a diminishing degree of effectiveness.

The next two centuries were beset by both external difficulties such as diminishing financial fortunes and failing buildings as well as internal strife between the various Members of the College.

In the 1970s and 1980s, resources for new element research at Berkeley were diminishing, but the GSI laboratory at Darmstadt, Germany, under the leadership of Peter Armbruster and with considerable resources, was able to produce and identify elements 107-109 ( 107, bohrium ; 108, hassium and 109, meitnerium ).

During this time, Vandellas records including "( We've Got ) Honey Love ", " Sweet Darlin '" and " Taking My Love and Leaving Me " were issued as singles with diminishing results.

The priory's lands were reduced in value by the raids, diminishing its income.

But, Ross points out, women were in a double bind: " they could choose to speak politics in nonpolitical modes, and thus risk greatly diminishing the clarity and pointedness of their political passion, or they could choose literary modes that were overtly political while trying to infuse them with a recognizable ' feminine ' decorum, again risking a softening of their political agenda.

He theorized that under pressure of diminishing populations, members of groups that were once enemies may have intermarried to survive.

It produced the UK Top 20 single " Secret Garden ", though chart returns were diminishing by this point, and two following singles earned very modest success.

his tactics and stragtegy for enhancing his own prestige were focused primarily on diminishing Tadamichi's role in the court.

By the early 1960s computer designs were approaching the point of diminishing returns.

But over the years, many aloe fields were replaced by buildings, diminishing its production and exports declined.

If the facial expressions induced by tickle were less pleasant the tickler would be less likely to continue, thus diminishing the frequency of these valuable combat lessons.

Vincent has hinted that he believes that the strike was instigated by the owners ( including his successor Bud Selig ) who were frustrated by their diminishing power over the MLBPA.

Those against the Wild Card see it as diminishing the importance of the pennant race and the regular season, with the true race often being for second rather than first place, while those in favor of it view it as an opportunity for teams to have a shot at the playoffs even when they have no chance of a first-place finish in their division, thus maintaining fan interest later in the season.

In modern one-day tactics, batsmen take few risks outside the first and last few overs, thus diminishing the claimed excitement.

Meyer was apprehensive at first and doubted ABC would get away with making a television film on nuclear war without the censors diminishing its effect.

Turgot was one of the first to recognize that “ successive applications of the variable input will cause the product to grow, first at an increasing rate, later at a diminishing rate until it reaches a maximum .” This was a recognition that the productivity gains required to increase national wealth had an ultimate limit, and, therefore, wealth was not infinite.

Alfred Marshall was the first to develop the standard supply and demand graph demonstrating a number of fundamentals regarding supply and demand including the supply and demand curves, market equilibrium, the relationship between quantity and price in regards to supply and demand, law of marginal utility, law diminishing returns, and the ideas of consumer and producer surpluses.

In 1916, New York City adopted the first zoning regulations to apply city-wide as a reaction to The Equitable Building which towered over the neighboring residences, diminishing the availability of sunshine.

Bradford's law is a pattern first described by Samuel C. Bradford in 1934 that estimates the exponentially diminishing returns of extending a search for references in science journals.

Following the opening of the first railway station in the area in 1839 at Stratford, the focus of activity shifted northwards towards the fast-expanding Stratford, with the original settlement diminishing in significance.

Persons who speak German as their first language, look German and whose families have lived in Germany for generations are considered " most German ", followed by categories of diminishing Germanness such as Aussiedler ( people of German ancestry whose families have lived in Eastern Europe but who have returned to Germany ), Restdeutsche ( people living in lands that have historically belonged to Germany but which is currently outside of Germany ), Auswanderer ( people whose families have emigrated from Germany and who still speak German ), German speakers in German speaking nations such as Austrians, and finally people of German emigrant background who no longer speak German.

Software projects are complex engineering endeavors, and new workers on the project must first become educated about the work that has preceded them ; this education requires diverting resources already working on the project, temporarily diminishing their productivity while the new workers are not yet contributing meaningfully.

In general the matches in the database are ordered to show the most closely related sequences first followed by sequences with diminishing similarity.

In the first newsletter three months later, President Ivan Sandrof proclaimed the primary purpose " to improve and maintain the standards of literary criticism in an era of diminishing and deteriorating values ".

The first investment trust was the Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust, started in 1868 " to give the investor of moderate means the same advantages as the large capitalists in diminishing the risk of spreading the investment over a number of stocks ".

It was during this time that the shrinking number of births was first noted and that the elves were diminishing.

One intuitive hypothesis, first proposed by Magoun, is that anesthetics might achieve their potent effects by reversibly blocking neural conduction within the reticular activating system, thereby diminishing overall arousal.

The emergence of young Dodgers prospects Matt Kemp and James Loney contributed to Anderson's playing time diminishing during the first half of the season and he was designated for assignment by the Dodgers on June 29, 2007, ending his tenure with the club.

To spread and share his understandings and appreciation of Chinese architecture, and most importantly, to help save its diminishing building technologies, Liang published his first book, Qing Structural Regulations in 1934.