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1. Women differ from men in that the decline in sexual responsiveness with aging is quite gradual
2. Certainly, I now have no wish to record any future decline if, or when, it should happen
3. The decline in our health can be traced to a few factors
4. The energy levels of the practitioner never decline even at the age of 80 years and above
5. The lack of true devoted leadership is a horrible price to pay for the decline in the
6. In the bar, wrapped in the warm embrace of alcohol and the fantastic promise of the boy with the tousled hair and that cheeky smile, she had suddenly felt compelled to decline the offer of more fun
7. Indeed, with the decline in rental income caused by the ever increasing costs of insurance, red tape and health and safety initiatives, great-aunt Edith had financed some of the finer pieces in the apartment, including a real Ming chrysanthemum pot and a small Lowry, through her prowess at conducting phishing expeditions across the global email network in search of the details of other people’s bank accounts
8. dilapidated and failing, locked into the decline that blighted so
9. shallow roots falling into decline as the breath of winter touched
10. The house is substantial, essentially Devonian in its Victorian solidity and state of grand decline
11. The tunnel was a constant decline of concrete and neon lights
12. An elderly woman suggested that they capture Emma as Chairperson, and before she could decline, the whole place voted a loud approval and the subject was settled — at least as far as they were willing to believe
13. The order of proprietors may perhaps gain more by the prosperity of the society than that of labourers; but there is no order that suffers so cruelly from its decline
14. was to have a small decline
15. decline is that that facilitated the
16. In the midst of the most destructive foreign war, therefore, the greater part of manufactures may frequently flourish greatly; and, on the contrary, they may decline on the return of peace
17. She saw the decline and fall of the United States as inevitable because it, a decline and fall of a nation state, had been written about since history was recorded
18. What bothered her as she lived in this new world, was the decline and elimination of the ethnic traditions of her childhood
19. The fear at the back of his mind before he’d fallen asleep had been the steady decline of the ship’s temperature, but he wouldn’t have its doom-laden reminder on constant display
20. Their affairs continued to go gradually to decline, till at last, being in every respect a bankrupt company, they were dissolved by act of parliament, and their forts and garrisons vested in the present regulated company of merchants trading to Africa
21. ’ It was true, he even once said it to a colleague – just to experience what it would be like; much better than a slow decline into old age senility
22. Better than the usual slow decline
23. With that water removed, and the Earth’s electro-mechanical function adversely affected, and because we can today measure a continuous decline in Earth’s magnetic field strength, we can postulate that gravity would have overcome the magnetic field’s influence on the layer of water above the atmosphere as a result of the rotational core mechanics being altered
24. Soon after his decision to decline the offer to command a
25. Some of the prisoners elected to join the Shenandoah as crew, but the majority chose to decline
26. Despite the decline in religion, violent crime and political terrorism had actually risen
27. They would have an interview for a volunteer position but would decline the offer and leave, depositing the bag somewhere out of sight
28. One unpredictable effect, the dramatic lowering of the suicide rate: a sixty per cent decline from peacetime levels
29. Since the decline of religion, it had fallen into disrepair, but it never failed to inspire her
30. His first inclination was to decline; he preferred to suffer the indignities of the shift in the privacy
31. This was too much for her as she started a slow decline
32. The decline of great civilizations is not entirely owing to economic reasons
33. America‘s relative decline as the world‘s eminent global leader is not unprecedented when understood by the parallel decline of many (Great) Nations
34. A condition common to many Great Nations in decline is complacency; a weakening of (national) resolve that eventually causes many (erstwhile) Great Nations to gradually abandon their moral bearing
35. The decline of any great nation is hastened by intellectual and moral laxity and indifference to that nation‘s historical achievements; that is to say, that nation forgot the lessons that made it great
36. When a society begins to lose its moral compass or becomes less critical of questionable points of views or unseemly behavior that diminishes an individual‘s intellectual and moral character, however, and when principled and far-sighted judgments(s) become increasingly muddled and uncertain and when that society fails to exercise reasonable discretion by indiscriminately embracing every hare-brained idea for tolerance sake or taking every (novel) proposition at its face value without giving serious thought to the matter and when an individual, lest he or she be perceived as close-minded or confrontational, remains on the sidelines as a casual observer rather than an active participant, such actions or inactions, whatever the case may be, must inevitably usher the moral and intellectual decline of that society
37. Following this massive withdrawal, a rapid decline in innovative and entrepreneurial attitudes (and moral) purpose become apparent
38. A society in moral and spiritual decline seldom fulfills its constructive designs although it often provokes cries in the wilderness among remarkable men and women not quite ready to surrender what remaining capital that society has squandered
39. Whenever social costs begin to (marginally) exceed their intended benefits because (limited) resources are either inefficiently allocated or mismanaged or depleting revenue is (simply) unable to keep pace with spending requirements or whenever non-recoverable anti-social attitudes begin to compromise that society‘s quality of life or whenever that society‘s efforts to rehabilitate its economic, intellectual or moral infrastructures or restore flagging morale are no longer effective or have lost their (spirited) momentum or whenever (public) proposals fall short of (private) expectations is that society said to be in a state of decline
40. A society that has developed an immunity to shock or feigns indifference to offensive or inappropriate behavior when it should be properly outraged should consider itself in a transitional state of moral decline!
41. Minorities, especially African Americans and Latinos, have been unfairly criticized for the rapid rate of urban decline, (Remember what a nice neighborhood this used to be before ―they‖ moved into it?) although an honest assessment would inform any fair-minded individual that many of these neighborhoods were already in a transitional state of decline years before ―other‖ groups started moving in following the departure of White working and middle class families to suburbia in search of ―greener pastures‖
42. Perhaps this unfortunate turn of events is inevitable in light of the continuous assault over the years by the International Community (read: Modern European Democracies) whose leaders widely regard sovereign authority (other than their own) and political prestige invested in great nations with suspicion and whose (own) precipitous decline as world power brokers foreshadowed America‘s diminution of (global) influence by a half century or more
43. It would appear that America has, whether intentionally or not, (I will leave such questions for others to argue), hastened its own decline by reasons of ―guilt,‖ ―shame‖ and (national) complacency or perhaps a combination of all three or simply because egalitarian attitudes no longer make it feasible for America to shoulder such (lofty) burdens
44. That rather conspicuous moment in American History witnessed a troubling transformation in American political thought that subsequently ushered the moral and intellectual decline of traditional liberalism that would (eventually) invest it with an entirely different meaning; not to mention a peevish intolerance for liberal values deemed inconsistent with the emerging New World Order
45. The dramatic decline in manufacturing and factory jobs has created a tighter domestic labor market that is increasingly finding expression within the corporate mainstream
46. Notwithstanding its (own) relative decline, however, America may arguably remain the world‘s foremost military power although its comparative advantage over other developing nations will be sorely tested by hostile upstarts
47. FARC is in decline today, in part because President Alvaro Uribe launched a brutal military campaign and in part because Castro of Cuba and Chavez of Venezuela negotiated for FARC to end their uprising and become a political party, as they were before the Colombian government attacked them in the 1960s
48. Deaths from alcoholism did decline, but deaths from alcohol poisoning and criminal syndicates rose
49. ―nominal‖ decline in revenue impact, assuming that it does, the French economy? It wouldn‘t take much imagination to predict the
50. What I have observed, however, is a procession of global wars, famine, pestilence and disease, a decline in civility and (polite) manners, greed and rabid materialism, a diminution of moral and spiritual values, corporate and political corruption, consumer gluttony, disinterested parents and teachers, dysfunctional households, racism, steroids, offensive rap-music, pedophilia, teenage pregnancies and abortion, social unrest, selfishness and indifference, self-centeredness and conceit, the flaunting of immodest and indecent behavior and the glorification of stupidity in general
1. The confusion, however, is not entirely over, for rather than accepting the carefully deliberated recommendations of the National Standards Board, Glickman declined to definitively prohibit three practices being used in producing organically grown foods
2. She declined his offer of dinner, saying
3. She declined his offer of dinner, saying that she would eat later, that she had not long finished a late lunch, but she would stay and keep him company while he ate
4. By the 43rd century the population had declined a bit, but by then a few labs had started to sell some treatments that could cure the sterility
5. Many people declined to re-inhabit the old cities
6. He invited her, politely, to join them and she politely declined and turned to watch the sea in front of them
7. Bram smoking and he certainly had always declined the offer of a
8. The police have declined to make anyone available at this time to comment
9. The merchant outlined the tenets of the discipline and various verifications of its claims, adding as he did so that he himself was at liberty tell her what he knew of it, as he had declined the invitation to the 'path' when he was still young and very foolish
10. supper one night, but John declined when he found out of his sixteen-year-old
11. In 1740, a year of great scarcity, both manufactures, indeed, appear to have declined very considerably
12. The Yorkshire manufacture, indeed, declined, and its produce did not rise to what it had been in 1755, till 1766, after the repeal of the American stamp act
13. As riches, improvement, and population, have increased, interest has declined
14. upon a solemn embassy to Rome; and though their city had then declined from its former
15. During the greater part of the last century, those two nations divided the most considerable part of the East India trade between them; the trade of the Dutch continually augmenting in a still greater proportion than that of the Portuguese declined
16. insects had declined as well, and Jean and Legrand spent
17. declined by the Orthodox one, is that of the
18. As usual, Delvin sympathized with him and offered to help the Nord search, but the latter declined – he saw no need to disrupt the Guild’s current operations with the absence of yet another integral agent, and thanked him all the same
19. Their stock and credit gradually declined
20. “But then Mabel told me how tired you were and that your wounds were hurting if they still are I could get you something for the pain if you want it would be no trouble?” I declined for the moment because although I was a bit stiff the sleep I had last night must have done me some good because the pain was just a dull throb and I hardly noticed it
21. If we consider how society has changed over the past century, we have to agree that it has become more evil, morals have declined and this is clearly highlighted through the media today
22. Frank offered to drive them but she declined, glancing quickly at Rosemary
23. Peter declined to comment as it was all relative
24. declined and instead maintained a steady course toward
25. He declined the pastor’s
26. Tobin and Orion also wanted him to meet with them each night to discuss a method of dealing with the rebels, though he always declined to attend
27. She helped Katie until Alex returned and then declined to eat, using the excuse that she didn’t feel well
28. She had declined a Bat Mitzvah, which is the young girls version of the Bar Mitzvah, as she didn’t believe in God or religion, thinking to herself ‘…and now I’m here in my leathers, about twenty years later and still feeling crap about anything to do with synagogues and mounting the stairs to the …
29. Both adventurers declined before it was poured out and the soldier left, only to be replaced by a young messenger lad, who whispered to the gaoler then ran out of the building into the mud
30. Manna accepted the offer, which he felt was the least he could do as the other two had declined so quickly, and left the group as soon as he had made his choice
31. I declined, but he said it was
32. Halon declined to answer with words and loosed of the first arrow into the back of the nearest soldier
33. declined Mother’s invitation for dessert
34. Toral, however, staunchly declined to capitulate, but did all in his power to prolong the truce until reinforcements, marching from Manzanillo, should arrive to aid him in repelling the assault he hourly expected, but which Shafter was powerless to carry out
35. Since it would assuredly have resulted in the loss of one or more vessels, the sinking of which would have closed the channel, Admiral Sampson declined to make the attempt and on July 4th, Shafter cabled to Washington as follows:
36. I declined the home leave
37. He declined only since Bin Laden was meeting with members of the Pakistani Parliament and the attack would have created a huge incident
38. The Number of Lives Saved: The number of battles between the US Army and Native tribes declined from 101 in 1869 to only 15 in 1875
39. KKK terrorism dramatically declined in states where Grant intervened
40. ) That practice had declined since Grant left office, but Custer would likely kill it entirely
41. Some others declined to call it genocide
42. I’m full,” I said and declined politely because indeed I had eaten as much as a starving bull
43. Fred declined my offer and told me I had been the guest of the Tampa Bay Police Department
44. The Patriarch motioned with a slight nod of his head that he should be seated but Ursempyre declined in kind with an almost imperceptible shake of his head, his gaze intently fixed at the Patriarch at all times
45. Zabiewski offered to have his driver return them to the Polonia, but Elizabeth declined, saying she enjoyed riding the streetcar and taking in the sights
46. The Brazilian couple had insisted they borrow several changes, but Colling and Elizabeth had declined all but one outfit apiece
47. I have received a couple of approaches from churches within Hamilton Presbytery to give holiday pulpit supply, which I have respectfully declined
48. For 600 years Islam grew, prospered and became mighty, while Christianity declined and was threatened repeatedly with total eclipse largely by the firebrand of this new aggressive faith
49. Maharaj exacerbated and his health declined rapidly
50. reported in his column that “The number of factory workers has declined every month for three years
1. fading to watery pink as its strength and body declines
2. When the society declines, they fall even below this
3. Let‘s imagine the impact it would have on America‘s fine-tuned economy, for that matter, if its unemployment rate were to suddenly increase a couple of percentage points because of ―marginal‖ declines in productivity and subsequent revenue (and profits)
4. So we won’t have to raise taxes or cut expenditure to cover revenue declines in a weak economy
5. has been the continued declines of the number of physicians practicing this
6. Cave demolition for road construction has added to the problem, and the bat’s populations have suffered severe declines
7. permitted by the law of karma to use, a member still declines to give up his
8. For animals, their core of the core is an innate program of survival, and when stripped of this driver, their natural functionality declines
9. declines of the other 24 or 25 Dow stocks
10. Drastic declines in numbers of predators may cause
11. Once again, the market stagnates and innovation declines
12. capital declines, any increase in earnings will have a positive effect on both EVA and stock
13. When the economic outlook declines, the Federal Reserve
14. deviation of the stock declines
15. As American prosperity declines and the public becomes more aware of injustice and
16. (You can’t lose money due to market declines
17. “She declines all my promotion offers,” Orcher says
18. He politely declines your invitation to surrender and asks that you come out and play
19. His look shows how god who expresses complete and perfect human creation declines in a state of imperfection and faults to give such equality
20. It grows out of nationalism when the religion declines
21. But Jim Corbett declines it
22. Whenever faith declines or grows feeble,
23. remains stable over many years, with only slight declines in short-term memory and
24. Cass reluctantly declines the offer
25. Mary declines the offer of a bonus and takes the vacation time that is due her
26. If she still declines your offer,
27. declines as it evidently tends to harden the heart and
28. Religious fervor generally declines with the advance of education
29. Suspecting what might be happening, the translator declines the offer
30. “If the value of our investable assets declines but we spend the same absolute amount, then consumption as a percentage of assets increases,” the report says
31. You wil observe also that the caloric requirement declines with
32. He takes her up, and declines his head upon her neck: lays him down upon a bank of flowers: she, seeing him asleep, leaves him
33. For how calm, how solemn it grows to ascend to the atmosphere of lovers, Death or life I am then indifferent, my soul declines to prefer,
34. "I have followed your advice," he said; "but Camaralzaman declines to marry,
35. she regularly declines each fresh proposal, the envoys have had to leave as
36. His origin is as follows:--He is often the young son of a brave father, who dwells in an ill-governed city, of which he declines the honours and offices, and will not go to law, or exert himself in any way, but is ready to waive his rights in order that he may escape trouble
37. Stunningly, Ronald Reagan declines to vote for the office of the presidency
38. But the rocker, while having an open date between performances in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, declines
39. He had too many lady patients who were suffering from “weak hearts” and “declines
40. Why had he not known the difference between the political value and the imaginative value of these things? In the latter aspect her d'Urberville descent was a fact of great dimensions; worthless to economics, it was a most useful ingredient to the dreamer, to the moralizer on declines and falls
41. He declines to choose a profession
42. Being able to sidestep declines of this magnitude should be a goal of every contrarian trader
43. Missing the start of a bear market is generally not too much of a problem, because in most bear markets the worst percentage declines develop toward the end
44. There were many wonderful opportunities for the aggressive contrarian trader to buy into these three big rallies and to sell or even sell short in anticipation of the subsequent declines
45. This was consistent with a rise in put option buying (by investors betting on further market declines) in the options markets, which also became evident at the time
46. ” It went on to note that the shares of regional banks “plunged in one of the sharpest declines since the 1980’s
47. If buyers are able to hold the market higher on successive declines, a pattern of higher pivot lows pressing against the resistance area will result
48. Eventually, it becomes clear that the declines are a little steeper than expected, and some longs begin to unwind their positions, adding to the selling pressure
49. The uptrend line shows where buyers have stepped in on the declines with additional demand and have bid the market higher, which is why Wyckoff called this line the demand line
50. 20), where price holds successively smaller declines (higher lows) into a clearly defined resistance level (or the same formation, inverted, to the downside)
1. The loss of balance that leads to serious, injury-producing falls can be traced to age-related changes in the brain, diminishing vision, inner ear problems, weakening of the legs and trunk and/or the declining reliability of sensory mechanisms that let the brain know where the limbs are in space
2. 2) Declining respect for the authority of God's Word
3. (2) A declining respect for the authority of God's Word in all religious matters
4. camp, while Lindy and I – declining the use of Sherpas -
5. The natural price itself varies with the natural rate of each of its component parts, of wages, profit, and rent; and in every society this rate varies according to their circumstances, according to their riches or poverty, their advancing, stationary, or declining condition
6. First, I shall endeavour to explain what are the circumstances which naturally determine the rate of wages, and in what manner those circumstances are affected by the riches or poverty, by the advancing, stationary, or declining state of the society
7. But though in many respects dependent upon the laws and policy, this proportion seems to be little affected by the riches or poverty of that society, by its advancing, stationary, or declining condition, but to remain the same, or very nearly the same, in all those different states
8. It is hard in the stationary, and miserable in the declining state
9. The progressive state is, in reality, the cheerful and the hearty state to all the different orders of the society; the stationary is dull ; the declining melancholy
10. The demand for labour, according as it happens to be increasing, stationary, or declining, or to require an increasing, stationary, or declining population, determines the quantities of the necessaries and conveniencies of life which must be given to the labourer; and the money price of labour is determined by what is requisite for purchasing this quantity
11. The rise and fall in the profits of stock depend upon the same causes with the rise and fall in the wages of labour, the increasing or declining state of the wealth of the society ; but those causes affect the one and the other very differently
12. declining state, and the superabundance of hands is continually increasing
13. advancing, stationary, or declining state of the society
14. The proportion between the real recompence of labour in different countries, it must be remembered, is naturally regulated, not by their actual wealth or poverty, but by their advancing, stationary, or declining condition
15. The real wealth of the country, the annual produce of its land and labour, may, notwithstanding this circumstance, be either gradually declining, as in Portugal and Poland ; or gradually advancing, as in most other parts of Europe
16. First, by this attention they were enabled to make some tolerable judgment concerning the thriving or declining circumstances of their debtors, without being obliged to look out for any other evidence besides what their own books afforded them ; men being, for the most part, either regular or irregular in their repayments, according as their circumstances are either thriving or declining
17. Though at present few people, I believe, doubt of this, yet during this period five years have seldom passed away, in which some book or pamphlet has not been published, written, too, with such abilities as to gain some authority with the public, and pretending to demonstrate that the wealth of the nation was fast declining; that the country was depopulated, agriculture neglected, manufactures decaying, and trade undone
18. dering and at last declining
19. stationary, or declining population
20. As the wages of labour are everywhere regulated, partly by the demand for it, and partly by the average price of the necessary articles of subsistence; whatever raises this average price must necessarily raise those wages; so that the labourer may still be able to purchase that quantity of those necessary articles which the state of the demand for labour, whether increasing, stationary, or declining, requires that he should have
21. Any rise in the average price of necessaries, unless it be compensated by a proportionable rise in the wages of labour, must necessarily diminish, more or less, the ability of the poor to bring up numerous families, and, consequently, to supply the demand for useful labour; whatever may be the state of that demand, whether increasing, stationary, or declining; or such as requires an increasing, stationary, or declining population
22. Ironically, this trend appears to be declining among Blacks and Whites, although a reemerging phenomenon appears to be gaining momentum among ―recently‖ arrived ethnic groups spanning second and third generations or perhaps it only seems that way
23. The nutrition in our food has been slowly declining over the decades, because of the
24. Suharto was placed under house arrest for embezzlement of over half a billion in foreign aid, but avoided prosecution because of his declining health and the presence of many of his former appointees still in office
25. That many ran as Conservative Republicans on the campaign trail only to govern as Liberal Republicans or Democrats, which I suppose is one and the same, once they were elected, may partly explain the reason for the party‘s declining popularity
26. While the cost of a barrel of oil may vary, the one remaining constant is the fluctuation of public anxiety that varies in proportion to rising or declining prices
27. But to a substantial though declining group, these terrorists are heroes
28. Cuban-American terrorists were declining in numbers and their influence in the Cuban community was fading
29. Support for Bush, though still high, is declining not because opposition to the now inevitable war against Iraq, but because he chose to go through the United Nations
30. “Our training is improving, and the skill level of the pilots they had available, is declining,” I continued
31. The rise of prosperity in the west had been counter-balanced by declining prosperity in Ontario and Quebec, two former ‘have’ provinces
32. No one needs to be told that attendances are steadily falling nationally and that the trend is towards an ageing and numerically declining church
33. [23] The problem of declining Christian influence in the western world is not something that is confined to any one tradition or denomination
34. What then were the attributes that preserved nations? Could nations get better with time, instead of declining? Notwithstanding a person’s opportunity and capacity to turn himself around, it became clear to most reasonable thinkers that the First World War, the War to End All Wars, was a painful simplification
35. 25 And Hedad said to him, note now the day is declining, you had better remain all night that your heart may be comforted; and he pressed him so that he tarried there all night, and on the second day he rose up early to go away, when Hedad pressed him, saying, Comfort your heart with a morsel of bread and then go, and he remained and ate with him also the second day, and then the man rose up to continue his journey
36. 26 And Hedad said to him, note now the day is declining, remain with me to comfort your heart and in the morning rise up early and go your way
37. 27 And all the women of Egypt came to visit her, and they said to her, Why are you in this declining state? You who lack nothing; surely your husband is a great and esteemed prince in the sight of the king, should you lack anything of what your heart desires?
38. 33 And she said to them, Surely this happened to you in the moment that you looked at him, and you could not contain yourselves from him; How then can I refrain when he is constantly in my house, and I see him day after day going in and out of my house? how then can I keep from declining or even from perishing on account of this?
39. 35 And she said to them, I am daily endeavouring to persuade him, and he will not consent to my wishes, and I promised him everything that is good, and yet I could meet with no return from him; I am therefore in a declining state as you see
40. 37 And all the people of her house asked her, saying, Why are you ill and declining, and lack nothing? and she said to them, I know not this thing which is daily increasing in me
41. I surprised Frank and George by declining any alcohol
42. connections were at a much higher premium than in the declining Visigothic kingdom
43. 26 And Hedad said to him note now the day is declining remain with me to comfort your heart and in the morning rise up early and go your way
44. 27 And all the women of Egypt came to visit her and they said to her Why are you in this declining state? You who lack nothing; surely your husband is a great and esteemed prince in the sight of the king should you lack anything of what your heart desires?
45. 33 And she said to them Surely this happened to you in the moment that you looked at him and you could not contain yourselves from him; How then can I refrain when he is constantly in my house and I see him day after day going in and out of my house? how then can I keep from declining or even from perishing on account of this?
46. 35 And she said to them I am daily endeavouring to persuade him and he will not consent to my wishes and I promised him everything that is good and yet I could meet with no return from him; I am therefore in a declining state as you see
47. 37 And all the people of her house asked her saying Why are you ill and declining and lack nothing? and she said to them I know not this thing which is daily increasing in me
48. As the declining sun first kissed the top of the western hills, the land began to open up ahead of them revealing a quickly descending path into a wide flat valley
49. As the declining sun first kissed the top of the western hills, the land began to open up ahead
50. His denominations numbers had been declining steadily for