That hardly bodes well for Shell's once-dominant position.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amid Gazprom's power play,] Reference

The once-dominant chip-maker has missed the move to smartphones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Record Earnings Won't Tell Full Intel Tale] Reference

If it doesn't, it could go the way of another once-dominant network, Friendster.    From Wordnik.com.  [MySpace Redesign: Site Gets 'Facebook-Style' Makeover] Reference

NEW YORK — The once-dominant social network MySpace is revamping its home page.    From Wordnik.com.  [MySpace Redesign: Site Gets 'Facebook-Style' Makeover] Reference

The company is banking on the Palm Pre to revive its once-dominant smart-phone franchise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Palm Posts Better-Than-Expected Results] Reference

The LDP continues to implode and could go the way of the once-dominant American Whig Party.    From Wordnik.com.  [Start-Up Party in Japan Gains Favor] Reference

Part of what Siegel is exhibiting is a general audience weariness with a once-dominant genre.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Lee Siegel is wrong to declare the novel dead] Reference

Or will it suffer the fate of Myspace, the once-dominant but now struggling social-networking site?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Facebook Looks Like a Bargain] Reference

In the meantime, the once-dominant manufacturing sector fell far behind, dropping to just 12% of GDP.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kevin Phillips: Do Paulson and Bernanke Doom McCain's November Chances?] Reference

And while we're at it, let's go back to the 1950s, following the death of the once-dominant Boston Post.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference

The once-dominant species, however – bluebunch wheatgrass, Idaho fescue, and bluegrass – are distinctive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Palouse grasslands] Reference

What is clear is that a once-dominant union is crumbling under the pressure of real and perceived challenges.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eve Tahmincioglu: Autoworkers Go Quietly into the Bad Night] Reference

The once-dominant United States had not won the Davis Cup since 1995, the longest span without an American victory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Title in hand, United States takes reverse singles loss] Reference

The once-dominant United States had not won the Davis Cup in 12 years, the longest span without an American victory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doubles pleasure: Bryans boost USA to Davis Cup] Reference

(Soundbite of music) INSKEEP: The once-dominant social network has fallen on hard times, and now it's trying to come back.    From Wordnik.com.  [MySpace Fights To Stay Relevant] Reference

The movement to replace once-dominant American shows with local fare, for example, has been evident for more than a decade.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moguls’ New Clothes] Reference

But how many home viewers will this once-dominant chain have left when (if all goes as planned) it emerges from bankruptcy?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blockbuster goes bust] Reference

The once-dominant United States has 31 Davis Cup titles but none in 12 years, the longest span without an American victory.    From Wordnik.com.  [U.S. goes up 2-0 in Davis Cup final after first day] Reference

By 1994 the service sector accounted for over 55\% of GDP, while the once-dominant heavy industrial sector continues to shrink.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 1995 CIA World Factbook] Reference

The once-dominant dollar has also suffered, falling about 14 percent against Europe's common currency, the euro, in the past three months.    From Wordnik.com.  [Foreign Investors Losing Faith] Reference

Sears's once-dominant place supplying refrigerators and washing machines to American homes has been chipped away by Lowe's Cos. and Best Buy Co.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flagging Sears Plans Shakeup] Reference

And he noted that trade between emerging markets themselves – bypassing once-dominant trading partners in the West – was increasingly common.    From Wordnik.com.  [Davos Consensus: We're Out Of The Woods, But...] Reference

The once-dominant Labor Party, traditionally the party associated with the peace process, is running a distant fourth for the first time in its history.    From Wordnik.com.  [Israel Race Tightens, With the Right Ahead] Reference

Also, Fox News 'competitors, seeing the channel's once-dominant ratings slip away, realize they no longer have to take their cues from the Fox News lead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eric Boehlert: Fox News And Jerome Corsi, Living In The Past] Reference

It would be the latest attempt by Japan's once-dominant chip companies to survive through consolidation in a cutthroat and crowded global semiconductor industry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chip Makers Are in Merger Talks] Reference

John Henry, a U.S. hedge-fund manager, has reached a tentative agreement to purchase Liverpool, the once-dominant British soccer club that has fallen on hard times.    From Wordnik.com.  [Business Watch] Reference

The city's once-dominant but now-declining Polish-American population is being replenished by Bangladeshi and Yemeni immigrants attracted to its inexpensive housing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tax Dispute Squeezes Detroit's Neighbor] Reference

According to official statistics, most victims were ethnic Chinese, or Han, attacked by Uighurs, the once-dominant group in Xinjiang that is increasingly being eclipsed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uighurs Lose Economic Ground to Han] Reference

Patterns his play and is even nicknamed "Baby Sapp," in honor of Warren Sapp, but his backfield penetration agility is superior to that of the once-dominant Oakland Raider.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com] Reference

Figures on online movie market share are sketchy, but analysts say store chains command a paltry sliver — a far cry from retailers' once-dominant position in selling DVDs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Retailers' Video, Music Services Spin Wheels] Reference

Varney had raised her profile by representing Netscape Communications - the once-dominant provider of Web browsers - during the government's antitrust case against Microsoft.    From Wordnik.com.  [To consumer advocates, Obama's antitrust enforcement looks like more of the same] Reference

Then came the ACC schedule, and the once-dominant Terps became fodder for teams they once dominated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brownsville Herald :] Reference

Most scientists have long considered persistent rumors of a once-dominant Seminole secondary mythical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Sports - Top News] Reference