News of the surrender galvanised the Opposition and government majorities began to shrink over the following months with calls for resignations of senior ministers.

While using this suit to shrink, she calls herself Wasp and has powers similar to her mainstream counterpart, such as flight, proportionally superhuman strength, and the ability to project bio-electrical stings.

Yet even as calls to study the concept were made, investigation of the conative faculty began to shrink.

However a scientist named Dr. Minimizer has an idea: using a device he calls " The Minimizer Ray " ( named after his last name as the device suggests ), he will shrink the planet's population to 1 / 360th of its original size, and so create a world more suitable to our current status.

Darryl is released on orders to see a shrink.

When hippos become overpopulated, or when a habitat starts to shrink, bulls will sometimes attempt to kill infants, but this behavior is not common under normal conditions.

Again his nose grows longer and Pinocchio immediately tells the truth about himself, causing the nose to shrink back to normal.

4, issue 29 that the New Gods were giants and that the Boom Tube would shrink them as they traveled to normal time and space or enlarge beings who traveled to the Fourth World realm.

Ralph is given another instruction book — supposedly the aliens's last copy, but he loses it as well, when he and the book shrink to a fraction of their normal sizes, and he is not holding the book when he returns to his original height.

Yellowjacket's helmet contains subatomic " Pym particles " which she can release by mental command cybernetically through the helmet's circuitry, enabling her to shrink in size from one-half inch in size and return to normal ; the helmet also contains manual override controls.

The secret identity of Doll Man, " The World's Mightiest Mite ," is research chemist Darrell Dane, who invents a formula that enables him to shrink to the height of six inches while retaining the full strength of his normal size.

She and Wayne drive to a warehouse to find his original shrink ray to shrink Adam back to normal size.

Sterling agrees with him and gives his support to Wayne and Diane to shrink Adam back to normal size, but not before firing Hendrickson.

Diane then reunites with Adam, and as she holds him still, Wayne and Sterling shrink both of them back to normal size.

These drugs shrink the tumor and return prolactin levels to normal in approximately 80 % of patients.

They have the ability to shrink to child-size by expelling large amounts of water ( and returning to normal size by ingesting water ).

Addition of these chemicals to the solution surrounding muscle cells causes the cells to shrink ; when the chemical is withdrawn the cells rapidly expand before returning to their normal size.

Using a gaseous form of " Pym particles " kept in a compartment in his belt, Ant-Man had the power to shrink himself ( and other people and objects along with himself ) to the size of an ant and return to normal.

The sentence in Latin running along the upper border can be translated as " He who loves the gifts of heaven with all his heart, does not shrink from deeds that Piety dictates ".

In May 2011, controversy related to Clarke's reported views on rape resurfaced after an interview on the radio station BBC 5 Live, where he discussed a proposal to shrink the sentences of criminals, including rapists, who pleaded guilty in trial.

The hero is a Protestant minister and fanatic patriot who, in his determination to preserve the independence of his little country, does not shrink from murder and treason and in whom noble and base motives are strangely blended.

These comics teamed Sniffles with a little girl named Mary Jane who could shrink herself to mouse size, originally by sprinkling magic sand or simply by wishing it and then, throughout most of the series, by reciting " Magic words of poof poof piffles, make me just as small as sniffles .".

After the Gammazons were vanquished, Garganta was given a special bikini by Span-XX ( who make all of Femforce's costumes ) and a special apartment in a giant prefabricated building in the Femforce HQ ( Femforce # 45 ) but she later gained the ability to grow and shrink at will through practice.

... Anarchists who rebel against every sort of oppression and struggle for the integral liberty of each and who ought thus to shrink instinctively from all acts of violence which cease to be mere resistance to oppression and become oppressive in their turn are also liable to fall into the abyss of brutal force.

At the time there was nothing strange about a series of stories portraying as a positive and likeable protagonist the governor of an ( unnamed ) British colony in West Africa, who relies upon gun boats cruising along a major African river to enforce British rule and who-while not gratuitously cruel-does not shrink from using brute force on occasion.

In his anger, Issun-boshi used the lucky mallet to shrink the princess down, who in turn snatched the hammer from him and shrank him down.

The group are attacked by strange wooden creatures who shrink them to miniature size.

* Reducto: A supervillain who wields a shrink ray.

Wayne and Diane return home with the shrink ray, only to find the boys gone and facing legal action from Hendrickson, who wants them arrested on the charges of theft, malicious mischief, and child endangerment.

El is a towering man who gives himself the ability to shrink for minutes at a time from his height of seven-foot-four to eleven inches via hormonal treatments which he activates by pressing a nerve on the back of his neck.

In many of the later commercials, film villains ( such as Darth Vader, The Wicked Witch of the West, King Kong, Wile E. Coyote, and Boris and Natasha ) would try to destroy or capture the Bunny only to see complications arise when the Supervolt batteries ran out, the villains themselves collapsed from exhaustion, or other circumstances allowed for the mascot's escape ( i. e. the sun coming out to kill Dracula before he could seek shelter, or a fire sprinkler ( the smoke detector was presumably operated by Energizer batteries ) being inadvertently triggered leading to The Wicked Witch of the West melting, or Boris and Natasha attempting to shrink the Bunny, but inadvertently end up shrinking themselves ( and they try to escape the Bunny, who is now massive to them ).

The directorial debut of Joe Johnston and released through Walt Disney Pictures and Silver Screen Partners III, the film tells the story of an inventor who accidentally shrinks his and his neighbor's kids to ¼ of an inch with his electromagnetic shrink ray and sends them out into the backyard with the trash.

The pool of ancestors continues to shrink until we find the most recent common ancestor ( MRCA ) of all humans who were alive today, via this particular gene pathway.

His work includes the stories about Mrs. Pepperpot, a tiny lady who never knows when she is going to shrink to the size of a teaspoon.

The issuing of badges by lords was attacked in the Parliament of 1384, and in 1388 they made the startling request that " all liveries called badges, as well of our lord the king as of other lords ... shall be abolished ", because " those who wear them are flown with such insolent arrogance that they do not shrink from practising with reckless effrontery various kinds of extortion in the surrounding countryside ... and it is certainly the boldness inspired by these badges that makes them unafraid to do these things ".

The central character is Kay Harker who, on returning from boarding school, finds himself mixed up in a battle to possess a magical box, which allows the owner to go small ( shrink ) and go swift ( fly ), experience magical wonders contained within the box and go into the past.

The issuing of badges by lords was attacked in the Parliament of 1384, and in 1388 they made the startling request that " all liveries called badges, as well of our lord the king as of other lords ... shall be abolished ", because " those who wear them are flown with such insolent arrogance that they do not shrink from practising with reckless effrontery various kinds of extortion in the surrounding countryside ... and it is certainly the boldness inspired by these badges that makes them unafraid to do these things ".

If there is no hope in the future of these players being rewarded, they will likely leave the game, causing the population to shrink, and thus reducing the number of people who can be in the top 20 %.

Green lumber was all very well back in the days of wet plaster, when the framing lumber was bound to swell and then shrink as tons of water dried out the gypsum.

Intuitively, the process can be pictured as follows: first shrink the real line to the open interval (- π, π ) on the x-axis ; then bend the ends of this interval upwards ( in positive y-direction ) and move them towards each other, until you get a circle with one point ( the topmost one ) missing.

However, swords could narrow down to the shinogi, then narrow further to the blade, or even expand outward towards the shinogi then shrink to the blade ( producing a trapezoidal shape ).

Vegetable-tanned leather is not stable in water ; it tends to discolor, and if left to soak and then dry it will shrink and become less supple, and harder.

The body was then frozen solid and the ice vaporised to ensure Lindow Man did not shrink.

Since then, Namesys has also provided tools to resize ( both grow and shrink ) ReiserFS file systems offline.

With orthoferrite, if the patch was written and then a magnetic field was applied to the entire material, the patch would shrink down into a tiny circle, which he called a bubble.

If the skin is too thin, then the molded part will tend to shrink onto the cores that form them while cooling, and cling to those cores or part may warp, twist, blister or crack when the cavity is pulled away.

The victorious party then arrives at Blinkie ’ s and makes her undo her magic on Cap ' n Bill and Princess Gloria by using a magic powder to shrink her in size.

The " packs " are done by shrink wrapping the cards ( usually ten in a " pack ") and then placing them in a shrink-wrapped " mini-box " instead of the usual mylar foil packs used on virtually all trading card products today.

Proof of commutativity can be seen by letting one summand shrink until it is very small and then pulling it along the other knot.

) If the loop can always shrink all the way to a point, then the aquarium's interior is simply connected.

However, as they had taken the potion after the elixir, the mixture of the two first causes them to swell up like balloons, and then shrink down to a size where they are smaller than blades of grass.

The participants entered a contraption called the " Weinerizer ", which appeared to then shrink them to the puppet size ( it did so by having the contestants place their heads into a hole above a miniature puppet body ).

It is then heated by a heat gun or sent through a shrink tunnel or oven for shrinking.

Centerfolded film is supplied on a roll with the plastic is folded in half: product is placed in the center portion, the remaining three edges are sealed to form a bag, and the package then heated which causes the bag to shrink and conform to the product placed in the bag.

If the utility of one trader ( s ) influences the utility of another ( i. e. the latter is not selfish ) then the associated limit of the contract curve will shrink inwards, ruling out the most inequitable trades.

The green power is a shrink ray, and the enemy can then be destroyed by stepping on its shrunken form.

A craftsperson called a fuller ( also called a tucker or walker ) cleaned the woollen cloth in a fulling mill, and then had to dry it carefully or the woollen fabric would shrink.

That collection of live music clubs would shrink drastically beginning in the mid-1970s, first with the rise of disco music and recorded dance music in general, and then with Seattle's slightly rundown center becoming a financial district of new skyscrapers.