In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed".Ever since, however, the nation which a German intellectual once branded the "Uberpower" and a French politician a "hyperpuissance" has been seized by a deepening mood of decline.
Actual implementation, however, did not begin until 1988, when a deepening economic crisis and declining support from the Soviet Union compelled the government to slash spending, court foreign investment, and liberalize trade.
Since the credit crisis plunged a declining economy into a deepening recession, the era of bashing big government has been over.
But world markets, in which the dollar is steadily declining against the euro, are already showing a deepening suspicion about President Bush's policy of budgeting by deficit and debt.
The stock market is mired in a deepening correction — a sort of mini-bear market typically characterized by a 10 percent decline over a short period.
Stabilizing energy prices halted a five-month decline in producer prices last month, the government said Thursday, but inflation remained a remote concern amid a deepening recession.
It deepens, a deepening blue.
Mr. Baig said that Pakistan is now overwhelmed by a deepening social crisis, divisions in society, a loss of national cohesion, a crumbling economy, massive poverty, evaporating internal legitimacy and rapidly declining external credibility.
It also highlights a deepening racial disparity.
This is hardly a deepening computer revolution.
But after a few months, a deepening friendship was forming.
