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It is true that US attention to Latin America has waned in recent years.
Since the early part of the twentieth century – and, most clearly, since John Paul II’s papacy (1978-2005) – the traditional dominance of Italy and other European countries in the locations of blessed persons has waned.
And the traditional notion of saving for bequests has waned.
The Bank’s development focus emerged as the reconstruction task waned, and its current breadth and scope was consolidated under Robert McNamara’s presidency, from 1968 to 1981.
The number of people joining political parties has dropped sharply as ideological identification with either the left or the right has waned.
In the US, infrastructure investment remains suboptimal, and investment in the economy's knowledge and technology base is declining, partly because the pressure to remain ahead in these areas has waned since the Cold War ended.
Similarly, the terms astronomical science and hypnotic science mostly died out as the twentieth century progressed, perhaps because belief in the occult waned in respectable society.
We have clung to this faith in technological salvation as the old faiths waned and technology became ever more inventive.
By the time the AU acted, criticizing the perceived bias of the ICC, support for the court had waned enough that African leaders knew that they had leverage.
The importance of ASW capability in the Western Pacific has not waned.
And policymakers have moved to a risky credit-easing policy as QE’s effectiveness has waned.
Although their revolutionary zeal may have waned over the years, they still tend to share the outlook of the late Ayatollah Khomeini, who likened the relationship between Iran and the US to that “between a sheep and a wolf.”
But enthusiasm has waned, and one now hears talk of the UK joining some kind of US-EU trade deal at a later date.
In Libya, the fortunes of Saif al-Islam and Muatasim have waxed and waned as Qaddafi enforces his authority to prevent the emergence of a challenger.
Russia is no longer hampered by communist ideology and a cumbersome central-planning system, and the likelihood of ethnic fragmentation, though still a threat, has waned.
As both leaders’ political stars have waned, so, too, have the prospects for a renewed Franco-German relationship.
America’s financial and political preeminence has in fact waned.
But with the end of the Cold War, the pressure to remain a step ahead has waned, depriving the defense sector of a crucial engine of progress.
At the same time, the rest of the world’s interest in Brexit has understandably waned.
In 2008, after all sides recognized that Russia’s attack on Georgia had ended Georgia’s hope of joining NATO, Russian interference and domestic instability waned.
But, as China has grown more economically and politically powerful, that support has waned.
And as the sources of growth shift from infrastructure investment to household consumption, policymakers’ interest in funding an expansion in primary commodity supplies in various parts of the world has waned.
Market worries about the administration’s protectionist policies have waxed and waned throughout the year, but they are now reaching a new peak.
While its predominance has waned since then, owing to heavy investment in technological infrastructure elsewhere, it remains on top.
The prospect of Grexit – which was on and off the table after the crisis erupted in 2010 – waned after a cross-party majority in the Greek parliament backed the second bailout of Greece in 2012 and the associated debt restructuring.
And even the inclination to use the Fund in pursuit of national interests has waned: the US has simply opted to weaponize its own economic tools directly.
Since late 2014, however, appreciation pressure on the renminbi has waned.
Not surprisingly, public support for globalization has waned.
Those reservoirs would automatically be depleted and refilled as the economy waned and waxed, thus creating an automatic stabilizer.
Even though Britain’s clout has waned, the clash of great powers in Macartney’s time still resonates.
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