Ainda não temos significados para "thin the ranks".
1Larger carnivores were essential to thin the ranks of the abundant prey.
2But Ghosn said his priority was to ride out a credit crisis and deepening recession he forecast would thin the ranks of global automakers.
3Stricter capital requirements proposed for banks in the Basel III framework may thin the ranks of banks willing to provide LOC's, according to analysts.
4Market forces would have thinned the ranks through natural attrition, they said.
5But long marches had thinned the ranks of his old and best-tried troops.
6Death is constantly thinning the ranks, making vacancies, closing and opening the career of arms.
7Escapes, deaths, and exchange at last thinned the ranks.
8There he will wait, until death, thinning the ranks, enables him to advance a step.
9The triumphant party thinned the ranks of its opponents, and in turn experienced the same fate.
10Treason had thinned the ranks of the once united and famous knights of the Round Table.
11His marriage thinned the ranks of the latter and entirely wiped out almost every trace of the former.
12At this period the wars of the First Empire were greatly thinning the ranks of eligible young men.
13As you, having followed me thus far, will be aware, we had thinned the ranks of the Burmans.
14Time and war had thinned the ranks of friends; in the old haunts the old familiar faces were wanting.
15Two centuries of civil war had but thinned the ranks of each generation without quenching the hot spirit of the nation.
16When judges are very numerous, death is perpetually thinning the ranks of the judicial functionaries, and laying places vacant for newcomers.
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