Not if their ever-diminishing popularity means anything.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

We wait for satisfactory results of our endeavours with slow ever-diminishing hope.    From Wordnik.com.  [Summoning The Plagues] Reference

And yet that is the story, as clearly we have an ever-diminishing pretext for this war.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 2, 2003] Reference

The ever-diminishing audience for poetry is therefore hitting poets right in the pocketbook.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anxiety, a rant in three fits : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference

But this is the land of the clans, of the Clearances, the land of the ever-diminishing Gaeltacht.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Small Death in the Great Glen] Reference

People trickled in and out, and still we sat with an ever-diminishing expectation of our bus arriving.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Autobiography]

Let us hope that all believers are so helpfully shunted into backing such an ever-diminishing diety, no?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pretty Much Turtles All the Way Down] Reference

It seems to show a giant river stretching from Paris to Moscow; beneath it is an ever-diminishing creek.    From Wordnik.com.  [Economic Principals] Reference

Remontoire had already folded, and was currently gazing desolately at his ever-diminishing stack of chips.    From Wordnik.com.  [365 tomorrows » 2006 » August : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day] Reference

I have found that I am in a minority of people searching for the ever-diminishing pay phones with volume control.    From Wordnik.com.  [MAIL CALL: THE WI-FI REVOLUTION] Reference

There was no room in her mind for anyone but Dane, and her thoughts went in ever-diminishing circles around Dane.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Thorn Birds]

I have found that I am in a minority of people searching for the ever-diminishing pay phones with a volume control.    From Wordnik.com.  [MAIL CALL: HOW WIRELESS IS CHANGING THE WAY WE LI] Reference

In other words, to doom our nations to an ever-diminishing standard of living and, ultimately, to economic failure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Redefining Global Relations in the Post-Cold War World] Reference

Yet the "Gret Stet" is continually asked to accept the highest risks with ever-diminishing federal support in return.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-06-01] Reference

RIDGE: They are among the ever-diminishing number of al Qaeda leaders who have been able to avoid apprehension to date.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 3, 2003] Reference

A zero growth economy produces zero wage growth so there is an ever-diminishing pool of workers to purchase your house.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Clock is Ticking] Reference

There was a nice, juicy finish that kept you reaching for more to sip along with your ever-diminishing pile of pad thai.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-08-01] Reference

He talks specifically about the ever-diminishing returns writers who chase their image of the market ultimately receive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asking Readers] Reference

In spite of its small and ever-diminishing risk, I believe blood will continue to be one of the pillars of modern medicine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Role of the Canadian Red Cross Society] Reference

If millions of people are displaced, if there is a fight for ever-diminishing resources, suddenly you raise the specter of conflict.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 12, 2007] Reference

Although he regrets the ever-diminishing number of independent record shops, the plight of the industry as a whole does not affect him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manfred Eicher: the sound man] Reference

They face a daily struggle with housing and health care bills, inadequate nutrition, access to transportation, and ever-diminishing savings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marcia Kerz: Let's Bring Aging Americans Into the Information Age] Reference

The United States should not spend more American blood and more of its ever-diminishing financial resources to prop up Karzai's ineffectual regime.    From Wordnik.com.  [Malou Innocent: A Real Team of Rivals] Reference

Consequently, we could maintain a constant output indefinitely with an ever-diminishing amount of R if the quantity of K can be increased sufficiently.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biophysical economics] Reference

On his own children he made an ever-diminishing impression; on the rabble assembled in this remote trading post in the West he made no impression at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Berrybender Narratives] Reference

But the real cost of the program is, once again, the cuts to services that Floridians expect to receive, but won't because of the ever-diminishing state coffers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tax or consequences, part 33⅓] Reference

Instead of being shelved in the (ever-diminishing) SF&F section, it should have gone in the "literary stylings and/or epic poetry we're not entirely sure" section.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why I Stopped Reading: The Gone Away World] Reference

I can't help but think this will become increasingly obvious to future generations when they look back and see how this ever-diminishing resource was simply squandered.    From Wordnik.com.  [McCain's Offshore Drilling Approach is Bad For America; We Need a Better, Smarter Approach] Reference

Rather than play this game, chasing the ever-diminishing dollar amount for online content, I have to wonder: Might it be better to stay away from Demand Media and the like?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lee Schneider: Media: Better Free Than Cheap] Reference

The labour thus engaged must be in an ever-diminishing proportion to a given quantity of consumption.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production] Reference

We kept ourselves alive, but did not solve the problem of the ever-diminishing supplies of rice for our men.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ivory Trail] Reference

The relatively new company is still ramping up, providing increasing amounts of energy at ever-diminishing costs.    From Wordnik.com.  [NBC Bay Area -] Reference

It's an approach doomed to result in ever-diminishing returns for reasons best summed up in Dennis Hopper's line from the film.    From Wordnik.com.  [WORLDMag.com] Reference

Speed cameras became an end in themselves, a cash cow for government - while delivering ever-diminishing returns in road safety.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home | Mail Online] Reference