Ironically, today s decline in American global power may lead to more effective regional cooperation.

Other regions also will find that the decline of US power increases the urgency of stronger cooperation between neighbors.

Cooperation can turn the sharp and frightening decline in worldwide consumption spending into a global opportunity to invest more in the world s future well being.

This year marked a decline of 12 per cent in WFPachieved technical cooperation expenditure. This rise, from 3.3 billion in 2003 to 2.9 billion in 2004, was the major contributing factor to the overall increase in technical cooperation expenditure worldwide.

The decline of parties reflects the decline of class.

The Decline and Fall of America s Decline and Fall

There will also be a decline in competitiveness.

Indeed, demographically, Russia is undergoing a dramatic decline.

As important is a straightforward decline in literacy.

The US may yet experience a similar decline.

They must be allowed to decline or move inland (and eventually decline).

Brazil's population increased significantly between 1940 and 1970, because of a decline in the mortality rate, even though the birth rate underwent a slight decline.

This is hardly a picture of absolute economic decline.

The result was a dramatic decline in CO2 emissions.

America s Overrated Decline

AIPAC in Decline

Dignity or Decline?

Its absence as a buyer contributed to the euro s decline.

But let s not wait faced with predictions of the West s relative decline, the US and the EU must commit themselves to more union, more cooperation, and more prosperity.

In 2001, there was about a 10.5 percent decline in the incidence of poverty and a 12.4 percent decline in the depth of poverty over the previous year.

As a result of the improved climate of cooperation between UNMEE and the parties, there has been a decline in the restrictions placed on the freedom of movement of UNMEE personnel in the performance of their mandated tasks.

America s Self Inflicted Decline

Debt and America s Decline

Europe s Determination to Decline

The Decline of Ahmedinejad

First was the decline in activities in favour of Latin America and the Caribbean and in the share of the region in the overall technical cooperation activities of UNCTAD.

Indeed, in Italy, Fiat had long been in a sad decline.

A recent decline in primary surpluses has added to the problem.

In the same period, the mortality rate observed a significant decline.

Some Parties indicated a decline in the energy intensity of production.

This share represented a decline from 2.0 per cent in 1990.

Pessimistic observers foresee a continual decline of freedom rather than a liberal equilibrium.

Their exports went down a lot in the early 1990s and actually that decline lines up really, really closely with this decline in new HIV infections.

The market factored in the missing increase and thus reacted to a decline of 2.26 million b d, not the actual decline of 460,000 b d.

We should keep this in mind as we assess the current US presidential debates, with their constant reference to American decline. Decline is a misleading metaphor.

Latvia closed 131 schools between 2006 and 2010, which is a 12.9 decline, and in the same period enrolment in educational institutions has fallen by over 54,000 people, a 10.3 decline.

The Challenge of Russia s Decline

Targeting of sectors will decline.

Japan s Road to Harmonious Decline

Japan's decline has been palpable.

Subsequently the dollar did decline.

The Decline of Renewable Energy

If past experience is a reliable guide, a decline in inflation is already overdue.

But there is also a short term imperative to avoid a cycle of decline.

PARIS The world is witnessing a drastic decline of its natural capital.