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    declining


    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


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    Synonyms for "declining"

    disappearing disintegrating decaying ebbing fading vanishing