For an infected ant, when the declining air temperature hits a certain threshold, its jaws become locked in a closed position. |
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Smallest of snipes, the jack snipe has been declining in Norfolk in recent years. |
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Yet nowadays declining inner cities are disproportionately represented, at the expense of dormitory towns and rural areas. |
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But a declining commitment to global equity is inconsistent with our evolving brand. |
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There was a declining willingness of the public to donate organs for research. |
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Today, agricultural colleges suffer declining enrollments in technical and production fields. |
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This has manifested in terms of declining employment opportunities for the least skilled and a wider dispersion of earnings. |
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It has led to declining standards of living and widening income disparities. |
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The report looked at declining levels of engagement in the political process as well as press and broadcast news. |
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I don't see how in a declining market we can disincentivise their walking away. |
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If they are not so justified, then the judge will need to adopt a robust approach in declining to order disclosure. |
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At a different scale, we may invoke female emancipation to explain the declining populations of Europe. |
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For when the next severe bear market starts, virtually every growth stock and fund will be declining. |
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Adding to the problem of declining numbers is that a lot of old horsemen have been dying off, and their sons have decided not to carry on. |
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One measure of the outcome is the declining number of people who vote in elections. |
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For years, the economically depressed town has been just another casualty of declining population, high unemployment and loss of industry. |
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Many regions have suffered depopulation precisely because of the declining job prospects and poor infrastructure available. |
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That is of course about what we have come to expect of the declining older Protestant churches. |
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But he said it was important the demographical shift did not lead to compromised services for the declining age groups. |
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Having been promised the moon, we wound up dealing with polluted water, smudgy air, declining heath and income disparities of the worst kind. |
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The girls would happily sit for hours on end in his study declining Greek nouns and reading political philosophy. |
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They made their way back to their cars, after declining many offers of cups of tea and cake. |
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As in so many other parts of the former Soviet Union, health standards are declining. |
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But he adds that English is declining less rapidly than some other languages, like Italian. |
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The board's passive response to declining performance may stem from deference to a much-admired leader. |
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If there was evidence of Monty's performance declining, his mental strength appeared to be holding up well. |
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With declining renal function, doses of certain medications and antibiotics should be decreased to avoid toxic buildup. |
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Although tobacco consumption may be declining in the West, it continues to grow in emerging markets. |
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In the developed world, birth rates have been declining steadily for the past two decades. |
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The importance of the EEA is declining as its members assume full membership of the European Community. |
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The site is also an important home for fritillary butterfly, including the rare and declining high brown and pearl-bordered fritillaries. |
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From sea turtles to fringeless white orchids, native species are declining at alarming rates as their natural habitats are lost or degraded. |
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Maintaining milk supply in suckler herds is a problem where the influence of the Friesian is declining. |
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Therefore older women will be freed from the constraint of declining ovarian egg releases. |
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A declining dollar in foreign exchange markets may soon rekindle the inflation fever. |
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As if to pour salt into the wound that is the declining sale of fluid milk, sales of soy beverages are soaring. |
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Thus, by declining to tell parents that they cannot hit their children, the state sanctions their corporal punishment. |
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But the network game-of-the-week concept, in declining health for two decades, is flatlining. |
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Face to face conversation, talking in the street, does seem to me to be declining. |
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The economic advantages of outsourcing and contractorization at a time of declining budgets are self-evident. |
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The uncertainty over the outcome of talks in Washington over the fiscal cliff has sapped the natural inclination to buy declining shares. |
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Households and businesses readily use Credit to consummate transactions, with traditional money playing a small and declining role. |
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Prices for most manufactured and consumer goods are either flat or declining. |
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In the film, John Huston plays an aging film director named Jake Hannaford in the declining years of his career. |
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We have a declining birth rate and increased life expectancy, along with a marked reluctance to pay into a private pension plan. |
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Not only was he rude for declining the invitation, but his reason for declining was insulting to the host. |
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But surging goatgrass and declining rainfall combined to confound the plan and spurred him to look for a new spring crop. |
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I was persuaded that I had been spared an insolvable difficulty by declining to accept his gracious but unilateral appointment. |
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Also in 1993 he published Grammar and Style, a book prompted by his infuriation with declining standards of literacy. |
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How will the parties defeat election fatigue and boost declining turn-out numbers? |
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He describes how the chains have persistently tried to kill off his profession, leading to declining projection quality in first-run theatres. |
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Moreover, a shaky economy a weak American dollar and declining tourism are hurting sales at some of Paris's fabled art galleries. |
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In leaf tissue, the first outwardly visible signs of senescence are declining rates of photosynthesis and loss of chlorophyll. |
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He had been in declining health for sometime, yet maintained a cheery disposition to the end. |
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The corporation also referred to high interest rates and gas prices, as well as an oversupply of used trucks, as sources of declining sales. |
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Economic development was retarded by over-dependence on the British Treasury and by over-reliance on declining traditional industries. |
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So expect a dramatic, theatrical, even histrionic week in which others might surprise you by declining to act out the roles you've cast them in. |
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For women facing the uncertainty of cash remittances or declining income, subsistence production becomes an important safety net. |
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In its heyday it was selling 700,000 cases a year, but that figure has now halved amid declining sales. |
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Quite by chance we had, not so literally this time, stumbled upon one of the most favoured sites in the country for the declining bird. |
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With all the new cartridges appearing in recent years, it's curious that the selection of.22 centerfire cartridges seems to be declining. |
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However, once again, the declining field strength is best explained by an exponential decay of the field due to a decaying electric current. |
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People talk a lot about cultural decay and declining values and the blame is usually placed on evil liberals. |
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Bank robberies, cash-in-transit heists, petty crime and road accidents are all declining in the City of Johannesburg. |
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If the hedgerow can support some hedge sparrows, a declining species, then so much the better. |
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Residents of the case-study communities have devised slightly different livelihood strategies to address the declining viability of agriculture. |
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As more of the manufacturing gets onshored, the share of machinery imports has been gradually declining. |
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Inflation, shortages, and declining production were the harvest of five years of perestroika and glasnost. |
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So he sighed and resigned himself to signing many autographs and tactfully declining many offers of marriage. |
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Therefore, the growing production of capital goods goes hand in hand with a declining output of consumption goods. |
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Despite the healthy pace of earnings growth, the cost of labour has actually been steadily declining. |
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The authors conclude that low levels of cholesterol may be potential warning signs of occult disease or rapidly declining health. |
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Note that blight is not restricted to stagnant or declining regions and cities. |
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Does the Minister consider the claims that productivity in the sector is stagnant or declining are accurate? |
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The chief concern of union officials is to secure the income of their apparatus in the face of a stagnant or declining dues base. |
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However, pay for similar work in the US has been relatively stagnant if not declining. |
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Also, he knew he needed bodily nourishment to bring up his declining health. |
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Machiavelli's aim was to give truthful advice, declining to allow normative judgements to interfere. |
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The economics of a stationary or declining population need be no more painful than those of an expanding one. |
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But for the immediate future, the effect of a declining currency will be negative. |
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Yet with all my time in Japan I never even knew he was here, at this now declining and unvisited temple that he loved for its beautiful view. |
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The movie nakedly presents elements of that naturalization of roles and of the consequences it produces in a declining middle class. |
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Scientists are shifting their attention from natural history studies to questions about how best to conserve isolated and declining populations. |
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By contrast, hoarding of a non-monetary commodity is kept within bounds by declining marginal utility. |
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He confirmed he would weigh up his decision in August, declining to be bounced into a snap refusal to cancel the petrol duty increase. |
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With the declining health of sitcoms, television has had to look in new directions to reel in viewers. |
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Sharply declining world prices for sisal exports delayed or aborted several projects. |
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The increase in unallocated equity reversed a declining trend of the past five years. |
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Several metrics likely signaled declining performance and the need to reduce headcount. |
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Charges of blackmail peaked in the inter-war decades of the 1920s and 1930s and have been declining since. |
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Stocks of the shrimp have been declining for several years, leading regulators to cancel the New England shrimping season. |
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A declining birth rate not only means fewer kids but also an ageing population. |
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With a declining birth rate and an ageing population, the first minister says they need fresh talent. |
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The strong upward trend was reflected by the fact that advancing counters were triple the number of declining counters. |
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Indi-pop, bhangra and its aggressive promotion through music channels also saw rock's audiences declining. |
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Sharply declining tobacco marketing quotas raise questions about the sustainability of that program. |
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News of horrendous mortality rates awaiting Liberian colonists contributed mightily to this declining interest. |
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The girl gave a polite shake of the head declining the tea, but took the proffered chair. |
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As are many whale populations, belugas in this area are declining, despite regulations to protect them. |
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Another important fact is that rising volume together with declining prices is also bearish. |
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The problems could relate to declining health, declining income or declining emotional security. |
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Rising wages contrasted with declining textile prices, which fell remorselessly in every textile industry for which we have data. |
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Some high-tech companies that are declining in market capitalization or stock value have great products. |
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If you've been watering your plant with bad water for several months, and the plant is clearly declining, things are bad. |
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Against a backdrop of steadily declining music sales, music companies have been forced to think of alternative solutions. |
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However, mass media's share of advertising is declining now as marketers boost spending on more targetable, narrowcast media. |
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That might cause big mailers to move to alternatives even faster, triggering a spiral of falling revenues, rising debt, and declining service. |
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He seems to be an actor perfectly suited to kitchen sink dramas in an age when demand from that sort of awkward, angry character is declining. |
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The Carolina madtom appears to be a declining species throughout its range. |
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All surveys were electronically tabulated and the results were ranked in declining order. |
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The low road relies on conflict and insecurity, control and harsh worker punishments, and often features declining real wages. |
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The net effect of expanding assets with this financing mix has been a declining reliance on debt. |
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Financial matters also garnered debate at assemblies, as synods looked at declining budgets and ministry. |
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The introduction of exotic diseases and trapping for the pet bird trade are also responsible for the declining numbers of lorikeets in the wild. |
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The supposed transfer of allegiance from the older, declining imperial power to the ascendant one oversimplifies Curtin's choice. |
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The number of cases at the moment is certainly declining as of this month, on the other hand we have had lulls before. |
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Crested Auklet populations are declining due to predation at nesting sites by introduced predators such as Arctic foxes, red foxes, and rats. |
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Similarly, the petroleum reserve is home to a spate of declining species, including polar bears, Arctic wolves and foxes, and musk ox. |
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The Atlantic would become a dead sea strategically, its littoral states and their continents declining to marginal status. |
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While per capita consumption in the EU is declining consumption in Ireland is rocketing ahead. |
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The cruise ships reached their heyday during the roaring '20s, and then slowly began declining. |
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The complacent frivolity of its lavish mosaics suggests that the declining Roman empire had no apprehensions of imminent fall. |
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The government wants all workers to take out a second, private, pension to shore up the declining state pension. |
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Most of the money went to the structural funds which are spent on declining regions in rich countries as well as poor areas in poor countries. |
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The combination of adverse weather and declining sales led to retrenchment by many cooperatives. |
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In declining real estate value environment, long-term leaseholds could become an liabilities instead of assets. |
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Over recent years attendance figures at Anglican churches nationally have gradually been declining. |
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When people talk of the declining respect for elders, they're probably right. |
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No renewable fuel can come on tap fast enough to replace rapidly declining nuclear fuel. |
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His long-term aim to reconcile declining landlordism with advancing nationalism failed totally. |
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Fur seals, traditionally a mainstay in the Aleut diet, are declining in number for reasons that are not yet understood. |
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Once upon a time there was a petty bourgeois intellectual born into the dying culture of a declining empire. |
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Buying the shares later to fulfill the bond redemption was preferred to paying cash to the bondholders because the share price was declining. |
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He cited low unemployment and increasing job availability as other reasons why Armed Forces recruitment figures were declining. |
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Throughout this year retail sales have shown a rise, albeit a declining one, on levels of a year ago. |
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But study after study has shown declining space and airtime devoted to international news. |
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A growing number of states are in deficit as declining business profits reduce tax receipts and other revenues. |
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There is a marked difference between those living in prosperous wheat belt and wine country, compared with those in declining steel towns. |
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And what is more, there is declining yield from successive generations of hybrid cattle. |
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The declining fortunes of the male soul singer may well be the late Barry White's most lasting legacy. |
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With the local prosecutor declining to take action, the issue has probably peaked. |
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Elsewhere, disappearing rabbits can signal declining health of grassland and sagebrush ecosystems. |
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The declining population of honey bees, particularly due to colony collapse disorder, is troubling. |
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The vote was a sign of weariness with rampant cronyism in government and a rapidly declining economy. |
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In theory, a declining dollar should help the U.S. balance of trade by making imports relatively more expensive to Americans and exports relatively inexpensive to foreigners. |
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A senior Iranian official in Pakistan later confirmed the strike took place, declining to elaborate. |
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Blytheville is an old, declining cotton town, and many of its Main Street stores are empty. |
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The declining trend of reproduction is likely attributable to accumulative effects on those and other prey populations over consecutive years of below-average rainfall. |
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Traditional waterfall methods for developing software are rapidly declining in popularity as more recently developed Agile methodologies are increasingly adopted. |
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In movies and television they are still portrayed as Rambos, mercenaries, head cases, even as they approach retirement in the face of declining benefits. |
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With a constricted economy and a declining threat, priorities need reexamining. |
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I used to joke in the shows that the declining power of New Zealand men came about when they started wheeling suitcases on those sad little wheels. |
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The biggest rise has been in leaks from agricultural premises, raising fears that farmers are failing to maintain ageing oil tanks because of severely declining incomes. |
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The informants reported decreased yields owing to more pests, declining soil fertility, and the increased frequency of frosts, dry spells, and windstorms. |
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Of course, declining or stagnant wage growth started well before this president took office. |
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Death by pills or lethal injection might be unnatural, but she believes that declining nourishment and medications is not. |
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Just before the start of the season, The Wall Street Journal ran a feature on declining student attendance at games. |
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Its titular heroine is a poor little rich girl, looking for, and ostensibly finding, Mr Right in Vienna during the declining years of the Austro-Hungarian empire. |
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A recent renascence of Baptist life in Britain has resulted in Baptist churches being among the limited number of churches that are growing rather than declining. |
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There should also be a policy of repopulating declining regions. |
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This is consistent with parental practice which, as noted earlier, is marked by rapidly declining resort to physical punishment of children older than four. |
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The survey, which drew upon responses to 9,000 questionnaires, confirms that far from declining, the practice has actually grown over the last decade. |
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While the family is still poor and Harihar's health is declining, he is happy to be reunited with his wife and son, who is animated and excited about city life. |
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When I became chancellor at The University of Mississippi in 1995, enrollment was declining and I wanted to know why. |
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The declining uptake of childhood vaccinations resulting from the fears promoted by these campaigns may lead to the return of real epidemics, causing death and disability. |
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The British replacement rate is now lower than 20 per cent and steadily declining because UK basic pensions are indexed to prices rather than to average earnings. |
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This is not a case of falling school rolls and a declining area. |
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Still, these photographs taken at the declining coastal resort of New Brighton, a favourite holiday destination for Liverpudlians, are the Parr shots that everyone knows. |
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As players were getting bigger, ballparks and strike zones were getting smaller, bats and baseballs were getting harder and the quality of pitching was declining. |
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Continuous cropping on these soils has meant declining organic matter and tilth, and increased susceptibility to drought and other adverse conditions such as erosion. |
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Aware of its declining status, he began searching last spring for a new venue and a new time slot for the fair, traditionally held at Navy Pier in early May. |
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Conversely, some towns and cities are stuck in a time warp, with declining trade leading to empty shop properties and a consequent gap in the retail offer. |
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Manta rays are apparently declining in the Caribbean and in other tropical regions of the world's oceans, in part because they are captured for shark bait. |
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The Newsroom is over, newsrooms as we traditionally understand them are rapidly declining, and New Media is here to stay. |
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An overweight widower in declining health, he lives alone, walks with a cane, treats himself to good cigars and talks to photographs of his dead wife. |
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Like the mainstream in Britain and the US, Middle Australia is worried sick about declining values, the threat to national security and the future of their children. |
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As a result, many stores are unprofitable, borderline profitable, or experiencing declining revenue. |
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By the time of the first prescribed burn, Heller's blazing star, another declining species within the same habitat, had been listed as threatened. |
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His document looks at the country's declining birth rate and the continuing brain drain and presents an apocalyptic vision of the future in Scotland. |
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Hopefully, enough conservative voices speak out to prevent the country from declining further into the chaos and unworkability of full-blown socialism. |
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Meanwhile, the older nobility was losing income due to declining rents. |
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The framework of clans is of great importance to most Chadians, be they northerners or southerners, though clans are of declining relevance in the towns. |
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Rather, civic engagement seems to have steadily increased for the first two-thirds of the century, stagnating and declining only in the last third. |
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But he visits one website and his declining star goes super nova. |
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Is Germany's repatriation of its gold reserves from storage in New York and Paris a signal of declining confidence in the Euro? |
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More research is needed to get to the bottom of declining fly hatches, said Bennett, but the government-funded Environment Agency lacks the resources to do the work itself. |
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Villagers opposed to opencast mining plans near their homes claim the proposals could encroach on local water voles, currently the UK's fastest declining mammal. |
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The popularity of sheepdog trials is surging in Australia, despite a declining rural population and a growing trend of using motorbikes to herd sheep and cattle. |
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The nonconformist chapels, moral beacons to many in the Victorian heyday, were now suffering from falling membership, declining funds, and diminished authority. |
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It has posted four consecutive quarters of declining same-store sales, with overexpansion causing its Gap, Banana Republic, and Old Navy divisions to cannibalize sales. |
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With the banking sector in a funk, total outstanding loans have been declining for the past six years, hobbling the ability of enterprises to raise capital for expansion. |
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Although the number of new cases is declining, cattle are about to be let out of winter quarters and sheep are desperate to be moved to summer pastures. |
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Many demographic experts attribute the declining birth rate in recent years chiefly to young people's reluctance to marry because of heightening job insecurity. |
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It is within such a classical critical tradition of a crisis of ideology that the declining confrontations of labor and capital has brought more radical consequences. |
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It's no surprise that the public payphone is a declining species. |
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Mother Ann Lee instructed her followers, the Shakers of New York, to consistently practice coitus interruptus, thus ensuring a declining community. |
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Suddenly people deemed their social inferiors were rising in the social ladder while those who would normally have been in the elite were rapidly declining. |
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The problem has been exacerbated by what many believe is a combination of factional infighting within the Church and a declining number of priests from which to chose. |
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Identifying ways for engineers to help solve their profession's declining workforce numbers has earned a flight lieutenant recognition from his engineering peers. |
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The level of business at post office counters is declining rapidly. |
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One final cascade lay in our way and after carefully free climbing this, declining the use of the rather dodgy looking handline in place, we found ourselves at a deep pool. |
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The condition, known as cryptorchidism, or undescended testes, is related to the increase in the number of lower sperm counts, declining sperm quality and infertility. |
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This option may also be used to encourage declining arable plant communities e.g. species such as fuellens, fumitories, Corn Marigold and Corn Chamomile. |
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One danger area is the willingness of banks and other financial institutions to take on increasing risk in the search for profits in the face of declining opportunities. |
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Let's talk about why vegetable yields are declining precipitously. |
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The research also found that biodiversity loss is tightly linked to declining water quality, harmful algal blooms, ocean dead zones, fish kills, and coastal flooding. |
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Obstetric care by general practitioners is a declining service in Canada. |
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So the title of your book is interesting because we hear a lot about educational standards declining because of fewer students excelling in sciences and math. |
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Major negative influences were the continuous rise in the trade deficit and declining net investment, mainly due to the continuous rise in depreciations. |
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Although there are practical concerns regarding Europe's declining fertility rate, there are bigger concerns that useless people will only raise gormless children. |
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A ten-year boom brought diggers back across the Pacific from the declining California field, as well as from Britain, where Cornish tin-mining was declining. |
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As a result, the dollar must decline. The result of a declining dollar is logically a move towards other currencies which in itself is a form of Gresham's law. |
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Conversely, the Inland analysis reinforces other research that shows that disinvesting in the product is predictive of declining circulation and revenues. |
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Like its relative the manatee, the dugong's numbers are declining, with hunting, oil pollution, land reclamation and other human activities the causes. |
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Recently, ethologists have applied the study of animal behavior to an increasing number of problems relating to conserving rare, declining, and threatened animal species. |
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Before September 11, airlines were already feeling the pinch from the drop-off in IT business travellers and declining demand on North Atlantic routes. |
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The government wanted to reverse declining fish stocks by removing foreign fishing within the new inshore fishery boundaries. |
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By the 1990s economic activity was declining and economic infrastructure had become seriously degraded. |
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Many Germans came to escape the religious conflicts and declining economic opportunities in Germany and Switzerland. |
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However, towards the end of the 19th century the economy began declining, and by the 1940s Malta's economy was in serious crisis. |
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Although there is little clear evidence that standards were declining, this was expressed as one of the major grievances of the Reformation. |
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Over the last 40 years, voter turnout has been steadily declining in the established democracies. |
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The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland sees its share of the country's population declining by roughly one percent annually in recent years. |
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But Beveridge alluding to the problem of an overall declining birth rate, argued that even the flat rate would be eugenic. |
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Brazil's railway system has been declining since 1945, when emphasis shifted to highway construction. |
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The fastest declining populations are in regions of Latvia and Lithuania, as well as Greeceas Ioannina region. |
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However, Heaviside refused the offer, declining to accept any money unless the company were to give him full recognition. |
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Reports disagree on whether prostitution levels are growing or declining in developed countries. |
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There are declining amounts of these benchmark oils being produced each year, so other oils are more commonly what is actually delivered. |
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Free cash flow can be very negative for profitable, fast-growing businesses and very positive for unprofitable, declining ones. |
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Prevalent in the late 1990s, this type of service has been steadily declining in recent years. |
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In January 2012, it was revealed that 191 players had been contacted, with 7 declining to be considered for the team. |
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Large birds are declining in number, except for those kept for game such as pheasant, partridge, and red grouse. |
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The most affected was the coal industry, already suffering from declining output as shipping switched to oil. |
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Other, more subtle signs include spider angiomas, reddening of the palms, declining platelet counts, or a family history of liver disease. |
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Although his death was sudden, his health had been declining for several years, and he suffered from constant and severe neck pain. |
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In the United States, acrylic fiber production stopped in 2005, and in Europe it has been declining for many years. |
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By the end of 1979, disco was rapidly declining in popularity, and the backlash against disco put the Bee Gees' American career in a tailspin. |
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The procuratorial palace of Aquincum was declining uninhabitedly from the end of the IIIrd century on. |
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If the general view is declining Coe price because supply increasing steadily, then why chiong to showroom now? |
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As a child, he lived in a declining neighborhood just off Hollywood Boulevard. |
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While United Methodist Church in America membership has been declining, associated groups in developing countries are growing rapidly. |
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Since 1991, offshore oil and gas has become an increasingly important part of the economy, although production and revenue are now declining. |
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And besides, it is not atomic bombs that threaten the world, but Western morals and culture declining in values. |
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From the late 1600s and early 1700s, the Church of Ireland made some attempts to revive the declining Gaelic language. |
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North of the area defined by Wainwright the countryside takes on a moorland character, gradually declining toward the Solway Firth. |
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Steel was removed from that index on July 2, 2014, due to declining market capitalization. |
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Meanwhile, Brezhnev attempted to revive the Soviet economy, which was declining in part because of heavy military expenditures. |
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The large number of immigrants has kept Singapore's population from declining. |
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The major reasons were cheap imports, the strong dollar, declining exports, and a failure to diversify. |
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This method of dyeing cotton is declining in importance due to the toxic nature of the chemicals used. |
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The release is part of an ongoing programme to restock juvenile charr into the lake, where populations have been declining in recent years. |
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The worldwide economic downturn is the primary reason for the declining fertilizer use, dropping prices, and mounting inventories. |
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For example, declining baselines and rising incremental rates signal that more consumer purchases are occurring in conjunction with price events. |
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What troubles Arab intellectuals even more than the bastardisation of their language is that its use is declining, especially among the young. |
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The project will focus on the fastest declining bird species including corn buntings, yellow wagtails, skylarks, ring ouzels and twite. |
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With the declining price of computers and open source CNC software, the entry price of CNC machines has plummeted. |
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Diego Garcia's seabird community includes thriving populations of species which are rapidly declining in other parts of the Indian Ocean. |
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His personal physician, Barry O'Meara, warned London that his declining state of health was mainly caused by the harsh treatment. |
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The end was near and a further letter from Balfour declining to reconsider his earlier decision brought it about. |
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Tourism, manufacturing, and horticulture, mainly tomatoes and cut flowers, especially freesias, have been declining. |
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This species, known scientifically as Macaca sylvanus, is listed as endangered by the IUCN Red List and is declining. |
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Poor housing was one factor leading to severely declining birth rates throughout the Eastern Bloc. |
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Because all the children had a share in the family's property, there was a declining birth rate. |
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A combination of declining revenues and increased spending led to significant budget deficits. |
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Steadily declining oil prices would force them to draw down reserves and cut down on investments. |
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The goal was to attract private capital and new business activity that would bring jobs and progress to declining areas. |
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In contrast, they have also identified several declining species, including Buff-breasted Flycatcher, American Dipper, and Evening Grosbeak. |
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As smoking in misocapnist North America is declining, cigarettes are cheap and plentiful in Korea. |
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This concern over declining religious commitment led many people to support evangelical revival. |
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The numbers involved in farming have been declining for many years and many of the seasonal workers are now eastern Europeans. |
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Towards later era of the Ming dynasty, with declining government control, commerce, trade and private industries revived. |
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Subsequently, more and more Jurchens recognised the Ming Empire's declining power due to Esen's invasion. |
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However, there has been a housing boom due to declining commercial mortgage rates. |
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It's no coincidence that deaths in motor vehicle accidents have been declining, while seat belt use has climbed. |
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The approach yields hedonic price equations that can be consistent with declining marginal utilities of nutrients. |
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Both Boras and Sosnick cited a gag order in declining to comment on the union's upcoming hearing on the matter, which hasn't been scheduled. |
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The military outlays that the VOC needed to make to enhance its monopoly were not justified by the increased profits of this declining trade. |
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The decline in the facility services has implications for the declining tendency also on the number of passenger and goods. |
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This is very evident in the very broad base of the population pyramid in the region which has prevailed since 1970 but at a declining rate. |
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By the 18th century, declining silver production and economic diversification greatly diminished royal income. |
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A declining and aging population presents additional problems for the society. |
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The young man thanked me, and took his leave with some little precipitation, after declining a glass of liquor. |
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The milk cow numbers have registered a declining trend as compared to the increase in the milk production per cow. |
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However, Buddhism would later be persecuted by the state, subsequently declining in influence. |
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In the Ilkhanate, Ghazan restored the declining relay system in the Middle East on a restricted scale. |
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The anguish that Alexander felt after Hephaestion's death may also have contributed to his declining health. |
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This strategy is declining in Europe today due to the intensification of agriculture. |
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Greek society has changed rapidly over the last several decades, coinciding with the wider European trend of declining fertility and rapid aging. |
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Karelians have been declining in numbers in modern times significantly due to a number of factors. |
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In response to the declining trend, monolines stepped up development of additional business lines. |
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An alternative source of declining marginal revenue is downward-sloping demand in an environment with monopolistically competitive firms. |
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The researchers found that most of the failures occurred at times of high-energy electron activity during declining phases of the solar cycle. |
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Try to spot the first of the fluffy blackbird fledglings, and keep an eye out for declining species such as house martins and song thrushes. |
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The Turkmen Beyliks were under the control of the Mongols, at least nominally, through declining Seljuk sultans. |
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It even expects growing expenditures for protecting endangered species, citing declining populations of Edith's checkerspot butterfly. |
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Kittlitz's murrelet is a small, rare seabird of the Northern Pacific with a declining population. |
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To help mitigate the declining population, the government continues to increase child support payments. |
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This new woodland will encourage declining woodland birds such as willow warblers, tree pipits and garden warblers to nest. |
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Henry planned to resume war with France, but was plagued with financial problems, declining health and frequent rebellions. |
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