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Over the past two decades, since the end of the Cold War, there has been an overall decline in the number of civil wars.

This decline would be even more obvious if we factored in the genocide in Rwanda in 1994.

I've been at this for 30 years, and in that time I've seen the ability, the commitment, the will of government to do this decline, and I don't see them making a comeback right now.

The captain of a New Zealand vessel who was just down there is reporting a significant decline in the number of the Ross Sea killer whales, who are directly dependent on the Antarctic toothfish as their main source of food.

Because the prefrontal cortex and the hippocampus are the two areas that are most susceptible to neurodegenerative diseases and normal cognitive decline in aging.

The babies and children are geniuses until they turn seven, and then there's a systematic decline.

But there is a very curious pattern in the rest of the 20th century, because we see a sharp decline in this Islamic modernist line.

So there's a very sharp decline in liberal ideas in the Muslim world, and what you see is more of a defensive, rigid, reactionary strain, which led to Arab socialism, Arab nationalism and ultimately to the Islamist ideology.

Whether or not you're in my business, you have surely heard or read of the decline of the thing called the three-camera sitcom and the rise of reality TV.

I don't think the decline of Western civilization is inevitable, because I don't think history operates in this kind of life-cycle model, beautifully illustrated by Thomas Cole's "Course of Empire" paintings.

But the Tasmanian devil population has been undergoing a really extremely fast decline.

I did not decline.

And they're more vulnerable to job losses, subject to inflation, tightening loans from banks, appreciation of the renminbi, or decline of demand from Europe or America for the products they produce.

This was after six decades of decline.

You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.

80 percent of all amphibians are threatened and in come decline.

And I believe, many scientists believe that pesticides are an important part of that decline.

Some say it's not population decline, it might be a change in the distribution of plankton.

CA: There's been this huge decline in crime in America over the last three decades.

And increasing intensity of droughts and floods will severely impact breadbaskets of the world, causing massive famines and economic decline.

Because it is true that there was a decline in prevalence in Uganda in the 1990s.

There was a big decline in coffee prices.

So if you combine the intuition in this figure with some of the data that I talked about before, it suggests that somewhere between 25 percent and 50 percent of the decline in prevalence in Uganda actually would have happened even without any education campaign.

In due course, Britain started using oil and gas from the North Sea, and in the year 2000, oil and gas production from the North Sea also peaked, and they're now on the decline.

But the one thing that didn't happen was that there was never a serious and sustained decline in the number of annual executions in Texas.

It can't be attributed to a decline in the murder rate, because the murder rate has not declined nearly so steeply as the red line on that graph has gone down.

Now, that's really good compared to the mid-1980s, when it was in excess of 80 percent, but we can't explain the decline in death sentences and the affinity for life without the possibility of parole by an erosion of support for the death penalty, because people still support the death penalty.

Now, you might think that this decline in death sentences and the increase in the number of life sentences is a good thing or a bad thing.

You can always fool yourself into seeing a decline if you compare bleeding headlines of the present with rose-tinted images of the past.

For the last 30 years, political scientists have observed that there is a constant decline in electoral turnout, and the people who are least interested to vote are the people whom you expect are going to gain most out of voting.

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