Entropy means that everything in the world, everything, is in a state of decline and decay, the arch.

In countries emerging from conflict, revitalization was expected to be an integral part of the State reconstruction process, and a means of stemming the decay of State and civil society institutions.

Also, the Universe may enter a second inflationary epoch, or, assuming that the current vacuum state is a false vacuum, the vacuum may decay into a lower energy state.

The refrigerator preserves food from decay.

The refrigerator preserves food from decay.

The production of beta particles is termed beta decay.

Due to the large mass of a boson, weak decay is much more unlikely than strong or electromagnetic decay, and hence occurs less rapidly.

Most of the isotopes with atomic mass numbers below 14 decay to isotopes of carbon, while most of the isotopes with masses above 15 decay to isotopes of oxygen.

The EU is not proof of the decay of the nation state. It teaches us, instead, that nationalism (if respected) can become a responsible force for broader international cooperation.

However much military hardware a superpower owns, decay of the will to use it is the same thing as a decay of effective power. After a time, it ceases to overawe.

Dental decay is common especially in alcoholics and children.

But he whom God raised up saw no decay.

The half life for the decay of is only 6.7(17) seconds.

Para positronium can decay into any even number of photons (2, 4, 6, ...), but the probability quickly decreases with the number the branching ratio for decay into 4 photons is .

That route will lead only to moral and political decay.

Indeed, Saudi Arabia seems trapped in a state of suspended animation, its body politic sick and infirm. The country is caught between two choices progressive reform or continuing paralysis and decay.

This technique relies on the relaxation or decay of concentration (or density) fluctuations.

Possibly the energy released by the decay of 60Fe contributed, together with the energy released by decay of the radionuclide 26Al, to the remelting and differentiation of asteroids after their formation 4.6 billion years ago.

It will continue to move towards beautiful decay Venice writ large.

The continued absence of resolute action could easily drive Saudi Arabia toward irreversible decay.

If virtual black holes exist, they provide a mechanism for proton decay.

(iii) The approximate date of decay or re entry, if States are capable of verifying that information

One is, for instance, technetium is a radioactive element with a decay time of 4.2 million years.

It took the first data in 2007 2008 to measure the ratio of Ke2 Kμ2 decay rates.

It is radioactive, decaying into helium 3 through β decay with a half life of 12.32 years.

The country is caught between two choices progressive reform or continuing paralysis and decay.

In the nineteenth century, Europe s southern and eastern extremities were united by common decay.

Internet users preserve art because photographed walls neither wash away, nor decay with time.

The nationalist Council for National Strategy published a devastating report on the decay of Russia s military under Putin.

Gay people are perceived as violating social norms and threatening the society with moral decay.

Moreover, there is no hope that any new leader, whoever it may be, will get any breathing space to establish unquestioned control, given the economy s utter state of decay, as last year s failed bid to reform the currency demonstrated.

State handouts can be reliably financed only by controlling the economy s productive sectors. But in the Arab world, as everywhere else, this leads to theft, corruption, uncompetitive monopolies, a stifling of enterprise, and, eventually and inevitably, to decline and decay.

In fact, opponents of the bill fail to mention that traditional marriage is in a fairly advanced state of decay in Western societies. Fewer and fewer people are bothering to get married, and marriage is regarded less and less as a lifelong union.

Furthermore, in unleashing the power of money, the Thatcherites, for all their moralizing, contributed to the moral decay of the West.

This high level of sexual crimes committed against our children remains a blunt reminder of the moral decay in our society.

Two decades of natural decay and remediation measures mean that most territories originally deemed contaminated no longer merit that label.

It has only a small impact on blood sugar levels and does not promote tooth decay, i.e.

Space stations typically require a regular altitude boost to counteract orbital decay (see also orbital station keeping).

Therefore he says also in another psalm, 'You will not allow your Holy One to see decay.'

that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

As the lifetime of a black hole is proportional to the cube of its mass, more massive black holes take longer to decay.

Less long lived radioactive waste is produced the waste material would decay after 500 years to the radioactive level of coal ash.

Without a fundamental reset, relations between Russia and Europe will continue to decay, eventually becoming characterized by benign neglect.

because you will not leave my soul in Hades , neither will you allow your Holy One to see decay.

Asians, for their part, viewed Europe as either a model of modernity, as in Meiji Japan, or a barometer of decay, as in China.