Butt overall the percentage of parents who spank has been steadily declining.
In this deadline year, "biodiversity is still declining - there's no doubt about it," vie says.
Nutrients as a whole in the food supply are declining, Hansen says, citing another reason not to lump 1958 studies with more current ones.
Under the declining-balance method, an accelerated depreciation rate is computed as a specified percentage of the straight-line depreciation rate.
At the same time, the world's available cultivable land per person is declining. Arable land has declined steadily since 1960 and will decease by half over the next 50 years, according to the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications (ISAAA).
Advancing culture is bound to triumph over declining culture.
Many of its glaciers are steadfastly retreating due to rising temperatures and declining precipitation.
But analysts also warn, investors should not be blindly optimistic, as there's always the possibility of declining gold prices.
Its luxury-shoe sector is declining, not because of the cheap Asian footwear that is wiping out many European mass-market producers but because of a loss of design flair.
The prices are declining.
The North Sea, the Baltic and Celtic-Biscay shelf fisheries are all still declining.
This is because of premium rates stagnating or declining in many areas, while the supply of insurance and reinsurance remains high.
At the same time, the world's available cultivable land per person is declining. Arable land has declined steadily since 1960 and will decease by half over the next 50 years, according to the Int'l Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Appl. Tech.
The government was accused of propping up declining industries.
Now, coal reserves are piling up in warehouses and ports as prices fall because of declining demand related to the global economic slowdown.
Dementia is a condition of declining mental abilities, especially memory.
Use of these measures as stock selection criteria often misleads investors into buying stocks that are declining in price.
No medical certificate would compensate for a declining sales graph.
Although more people visited their local library last year than went to the cinema or a football match, the numbers are declining and so we also need to concentrate on attracting new readers.
It is possible that this result is really capturing the effect of being a less productive (and thus expendable) worker, or of being trapped in a declining industry.
His health is declining.
In time, less reoffending should cut prison Numbers, release resources and create a virtuous circle of declining crime.
After first politely declining, he eventually took a seat in the front row.
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