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Last updated on November 25, 2024.
News in printed form is in secular decline. However, news delivered the way consumers want it is growing and thriving.
For all the tribulations in our lives, for all the troubles that remain in the world, the decline of violence is an accomplishment that we can savor - and an impetus to cherish the forces of civilization and enlightenment that made it possible.
Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
Anything that has to do with rock seems to be on the decline. There's not a lot of rock stations or MTV anymore, you just go on Youtube.
Nonbelievers may welcome the collapse in British religiosity, but the decline in church attendance has meant that the chance to chat each week with other people has vanished.
Greater completion marks the progress of art, absolute completion usually its decline.
For instance, why are we terrorizing this country, leading with murder and mayhem, when crime is actually on the decline, as somebody, as somebody mentioned?
What we call 'economic growth' is in fact a growth in waste and a decline in the health of natural habitat
As a child, I was an obsessive reader, as was everybody in my family all winter long with my father. I think I was only 8 when I read Edward Gibbon's 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.'
Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a little sad. You've got to be careful.
Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene can decline with every click of the shutter.
Television, although It's in steep decline, still occasionally gives voices to people who don't have voices.
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.
History. The more of it you have the more you have to live it. After a little while there gets to be too much of it to memorize and maybe that's when empires start to decline.
Black artists are encouraged to explore their identity but are then pigeonholed according to their ethnicity. We may have seen the decline of old racism, but we are witnessing a new kind of racialising.
An established company which, in an age demanding innovation, is not able to innovation, is doomed to decline and extinction.
Women should marry when they are about eighteen years of age, and men at seven and thirty; then they are in the prime of life, and the decline in the powers of both will coincide.
My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.
Be hald, and your friends are many;
Be sad, and you lose them all.
There are to decline your nectared wine,
But all you must drink life's gall.
Globally, manufacturing jobs are on the decline, simply because productivity growth has outpaced growth in demand.
Sara held up a hand. 'How exactly did you "decline" his offer?' 'By slitting his throat.
Studies show that recipients of Section 8 vouchers have tended to choose moderately poor neighborhoods that were already on the decline, not low-poverty neighborhoods.
Life is apogee, apex, decline; life is death - and everything else is open to discussion.
At a certain point, the struggles with teaching and mothering and so on and so forth, those decline, those lessen.
All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism.
I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene.
The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline.
If we decline to become set in our ways, that's good. But it doesn't always feel good. It can be very challenging.
The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.
Like so many Americans, I am sick and tired of watching the rapid decline of our culture right in front of our eyes.
If cleverness has often been a sign of decadence throughout history, the attempt to be too clever by half is an even more reliable marker of cultural decline.
It is a poor reverie which invites a nap. One must even wonder whether, in this "failing asleep", the subconscious itself does not undergo a decline in being.
Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.
The critic does his utmost to blight genius in its infancy; that which rises in spite of him he will not see; and then he complains of the decline of literature.
ON the decline of the Roman power, about five centuries after Christ, the countries of Northern Europe were left almost destitute of a national government.
General improvements in health/decline in mortality do not affect all classes equally. As mortality rates fall, social inequalities commonly widen.
Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
It doesn't take a language long to disappear once the spirit to continue with it leaves its community. In fact, the speed of the decline has been one of the main findings of recent linguistic research.
I decline to go fox hunting (nor did she want her sons William and Harry to be involved in hunting).
All testify to the coercion and sacrifice which culture imposes on man. To rely on them and deny the decline is to become even more firmly caught in its fatal coils.
If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults and verbal attacks.
It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring.
I can feel the gradual decline of energy and vitality. And I mean generally, every year, when you know you are not on the same level as last year. But that's life.
Deflation is defined as a general decline in prices, with emphasis on the word 'general.'
There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick.
The left and Democrats are relying on the decline the American character that left-wing policies have produced.
Russians clearly perceive America's global influence as being in irreversible decline and American society shattered by major political, economic and ideological crises.
So the stock market could have a negative wealth effect and weigh on capital spending, but a sharp decline in long-term interest rates would be an important counterweight.
I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died.
I've never been the type of artist to plateau or have a big peak in my career and then a big decline.
During the Cold War, we gathered information by listening to the Soviets, taking pictures of the Soviets, and we allowed our human intelligence to decline.
Among the many factors that make a return to halcyon days of the first decades of the postwar era virtually impossible is the decline of clearly defined political leadership.
We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.
Individualism. Narcissism. Value-free choices. These are all key elements in the decline of the practice of mutual accountability in Western churches, among clergy and laity alike.
You could say people are living longer because of the decline in religion. Not many people believe in the hereafter, so they keep going.
I'm not running to manage the decline of this great country. I'm running to make real changes in D.C.
Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.
Pakistan's political instability is its greatest vulnerability, and a decline in U.S. power would reduce America's ability to aid Pakistan's consolidation and development.
After a brief couple of years in the late '70s, public funding for clean energy technologies dried up and has been on the decline ever since.
There is a hill beside the silver Thames, Shady with birch and beech and odorous pine; And brilliant underfoot with thousand gems, Steeply the thickets to his floods decline.
