Sadly, e-mail has triggered the decline of the handwritten note; I have seen its near-disappearance in my lifetime.
The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.
I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.
Those movies, Decline I and II and Suburbia, are dearly loved, but they never made any money. I didn't even have the rights for some of them.
That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has been expressed by higher authority than mine.
It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both cases it's for the lack of a suitable hero.
As a result of the awareness and consciousness of decline, an awareness and consciousness of a national ethnicity or an Islamic identity also came into being.
However, Hardy's relationship with nature is a dialectical one. While he indicates that he recognizes how human perception shapes nature, he nevertheless accepts nature as possessed of its own agency, as working through its cycle regardless of human ...
Yet the possibility of information storage, beyond what men and governments ever had before, can make available at the touch of a button a man's total history (including remarks put on his record by his kindergarten teacher about his ability and char...
Despair is a form of certainty, certainty that the future will be a lot like the present or will decline from it.
The malaise and military decline of the post-Vietnam years under President Jimmy Carter set the stage for Russian aggression abroad and uncertainty among our allies.
But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them.
Standards are declining left and right, and it doesn't matter. It's whatever is necessary to prop up Obama.
The decline of violence is a fractal phenomenon. You can see it over millennia, over centuries, over decades and over years.
While attendance at traditional churches has been declining for decades... the evangelical movement is growing, and it is changing the way America worships.
Photographers never want to talk about the fact that they may well be in decline. It's the greatest taboo subject of all.
American decline is real, though the apocalyptic vision reflects the familiar ruling class perception that anything short of total control amounts to total disaster.
For all of us who have been involved in the recovery efforts to bring back and strengthen wild salmon runs, we fear that this change in policy could lead to further declines in these wild stocks.
In the 1970s, British food was beginning to get good, whereas in France it was just starting its long, sad decline. My most memorable meals, however, have been in Italy.
The gradual decline of a society is often a self-induced process of trying to meet ever-expanding appetites, rather than a physical inability to produce past levels of food and fuel, or to maintain adequate defense.
A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.
