But her own interest in it is waning I feel that this topic has been given more space than it deserves. I have become bored of it.

Crassus does seem to dwindle in the mind, but...

The distinction between national and international economic policies is fading.

Fewer and fewer companies will meet basic risk criteria.

You know, to quote my wife, I like monograms on things, it shows they belong to me, unquote.

Consistent with this, the US military presence is decreasing.

And the money, the money we need for the global response to HlV, that is shrinking.

Were unemployment lower, the worries about outsourcing would be less.

These problems are all the more urgent today because the threat of local conflicts has not waned.

48. Political support for development assistance has been waning in almost every donor country.

Even where there is accord in principle, there is little agreement in practice.

I want this day to be ours, just you and I... alone in the waning twilight.

There is little agreement, however, when it comes to more contentious questions, such as the potential efficacy of targeted sanctions.

The same can be said for the general student population, with the exception of the Druze sector where the gap is rapidly closing.

In both scenarios, US employment would not increase and the trade deficit would not diminish.

Long term global demand for Africa s commodities, land, and manpower is unlikely to diminish.

Now, that number is dwarfed by the number of paper cups we use every day, and that is 40 million cups a day for hot beverages, most of which is coffee.

Roughly every hundred years since the Lutheran Reformation, the number of independent German political units has fallen by a factor of ten.

Of course, this demonization is nothing like what we saw during the days of the USSR.

TOKYO Two years have passed since the Fukushima nuclear accident, and international interest in its impact is beginning to wane.

UNFICYP was obliged to commit increasingly scarce military and civilian police personnel in order to preserve the integrity of the buffer zone.

Now, that number is dwarfed by the number of paper cups we use every day, and that is 40 million cups a day for hot beverages, most of which is coffee.

Even that small number is likely to diminish, as Lukashenka keeps up political, financial, and legal pressure on them.

Trends are also following similar patterns use of cannabis is increasing heroin use is stable or decreasing and use of ATS and cocaine is increasing.

None of Saddam apos s family is hungry, and his dwindling number of supporters still enjoy imported liquor and cigarettes.

While Pluto shrank astronomers started to find other, similar objects orbiting in the same zone.

But momentum is flagging, both on implementing the agreed reforms and on progress in areas like derivatives and shadow banking.

When, on the other hand, the forces of trade repeatedly hit the same people less educated, blue collar workers we may feel less sanguine about globalization.

But the rapprochement itself is, of course, mainly the work of Ariel Sharon, whose influence is by no means diminished because he is in a coma.

With domestic issues and re election anxieties now dominating most political agendas, it will be all too easy for commitment to wane.

Religion remains a compulsory subject throughout university programs, while inquisitiveness, critical thinking, and objective analysis are all widely discouraged.

We're making huge discoveries of large commercial grade ore along this mountain range, but it was dwarfed by what we discovered.

Then, perhaps, with women chaste for half or more of their childbearing years, the surplus population would diminish and conditions for the poor would be as good as they could be.

If Merkel opts for substantial deficit spending now , she will lose support, which is already fading fast because of increased state debt, nationalization, stimulus programs, etc.

India is probably the most spectacular counter example, but it is not the only one. Countries like Brazil, Argentina, Turkey, and Mexico are dwarfed by countries like South Korea.

By way of reference, the assumption of a 5 export downturn pales in comparison with the precipitous 13.6 decline in real exports that occurred in 2008 2009.

The developed North seems to have less and less need of Africa apos s products and Africa for its part no longer has the means to buy the goods and services of the North.

While all of this is going on, the support of the international community for humanitarian operations is dwindling, with a wide gap between the needs of humanitarian operations and the sums actually received.

A decent settlement with public sector workers could give Germany a backdoor fiscal stimulus just at the right moment when aggregate demand is flagging.

And with every story I remembered or don t because my brain prevents me and suppresses these memories the certainty that I was a person who neither kills nor wants to kill was gradually shrinking.

But no matter how frequently we proclaim that all are born free and equal in dignity and rights, this clash of principles has not diminished.

A decent settlement with public sector workers could give Germany a backdoor fiscal stimulus just at the right moment when aggregate demand is flagging.

While the General Assembly has been seized of the situation in that Territory, we note with much concern that real interest in this issue appears to diminish every year.

Overall, the report of the Secretary General on an Agenda for Development pales in comparison with his report, An Agenda for Peace (A 47 277), which many of us found to be intellectually provocative and to possess a sense of vision.

What the EU has learned from the results of the last parliamentary elections in Bulgaria is that, contrary to conventional wisdom, the leverage of Brussels over new member states increases rather than diminishes after they join.