| After a few years of vigorous controversy the second great debate petered out. |
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| His interest in criminal work petered out fairly early in his career and he specialised in family law. |
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| Each section had the glimmerings of a good plot, but they all petered out into nothing very much. |
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| When hostilities petered out following the conclusion of the Anglo-French peace of 1546, Anglo-Scottish relations remained as bad as ever. |
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| The lane petered out to track, the rain increased to torrential and dozens of lambs crowded under thorn trees, bleating. |
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| The local musicians and the tourists were thoroughly suspicious of something so synthetic, and it petered out. |
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| When the alluvial gold had petered out the family left, as did all the other diggers, and settled in Port Augusta. |
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| Despite the strong start and the strong acting, the film as a whole petered out toward the end. |
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| Even the run-down Roman roads which served England after a fashion petered out in Scotland. |
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| Eventually the track petered out and he had to find his way by keeping the rounded summit of the opposite, Army-held hill behind his back. |
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| We drove along a barely made road that petered out into a dirt track scraped out of the red sandy soil. |
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| The war petered out, and the colonies gained their collective independence. |
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| Gradually Barcelona had petered out in that first half, Ronaldinho in particular. |
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| The men in green will be disappointed with their performance as their smooth first half petered out in the second. |
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| The hurricane season ended in December when tropical storm Zeta formed and petered out in January. |
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| Trees were scarce in that part of the valley and only about a mile upstream on the Water of Girvan, trees petered out at a place where trembling poplars grew. |
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| It had been a terrific cup tie, but the game then petered out as the Wasps, showing a fine professionalism, prevented the Raiders from mounting any sort of late pressure. |
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| But by the late 1990s, the Savoy brand had petered out and the company was selling off bits and pieces. |
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| An economic boom in the West Bank appears to have petered out, threatening to further destabilize the region. |
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| The Hazare movement has since petered out, but its central idea, of the unique meritoriousness of the middle and upper classes of India, remains. |
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| A crowd of 28,401 amused themselves with Mexican waves as the match petered out without further incident and the Czechs emerged victorious. |
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| The excitement quickly petered out after the turn of the century, with the formation of large corporations which bought up individual claims. |
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| At this difficult point we were left to our own devices, since the dissents petered out into silence. |
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| The game petered out into its traditional pattern of man-to-man marking. |
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| The schools were only shut for two days and the number of new cases quickly petered out. |
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| By 1999, however, the miracle seemed to have petered out as the economy was dominated by inflation, debt and an insolvent banking system. |
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| Buckwheat was no longer ground in the thirties and rye petered out when pigs were no longer fattened up in farms. |
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| A path petered out a few feet from my washing line at the back. |
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| The tracks have not been traversed by vehicles for at least two years, and many tracks simply petered out into the bush. |
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| However, the authorities broadly managed to contain inflation, as the effects on prices of the introduction of VAT petered out during the first three months. |
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| It petered out in a maze of factionalism and mutual recriminations. |
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| The unification related import boom in Germany has petered out, which will largely outweigh the benefits from the forecasted uptake in world output growth and trade. |
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| Indeed, after the First World War, the Pictorialist movement petered out and experimental photography in Germany definitively dislocated 19th-century schemas. |
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| While applications from Sri Lanka remained constant throughout 2008, applications from the Dominican Republic largely petered out from May onwards. |
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| Most assaults petered out with the attackers decimated by shrapnel and machine-guns and their opponents equally diminished by high explosive and gas, for the Entente armies were now using gas, too. |
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| Richard Brodie, against his former club, had Southport's two best efforts at goal, while Alex Rodman's surging run petered out at the other end. |
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| It kind of petered out and he was gone, back to the shadows. |
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| The war slowly petered out after this battle, and Louis took the dispute over Normandy to Pope Callixtus II's council in Reims that October. |
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| The overall influence of Peter Parker on the page has petered out. |
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| The evening petered out and it was graceful. |
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| The explicitly Croat parties cried foul and denounced the legitimacy of a Croat supposedly elected by non-Croats, but their protests petered out rapidly. |
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| After those year classes petered out, declines were observed. |
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| As the gold fields petered out, the Chinese found employment as domestic servants, mainly in Victoria, as coal miners' helpers at Nanaimo, and as seasonal workers in the new Fraser River salmon canning industry. |
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| In Indian Affairs Branch files and in Indian homes I encountered many examples of cases in which attempts by Indians to spur official action or simply to seek information had petered out in a maze of jargon and red tape. |
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