Creative Capital was formed to help counter the decline in support from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1995.
The Kremlin's duty, Putin explained, is to counter the decline in literacy and restore Russia as "a reading nation".
Businesses needed to bring more old people and women into jobs, to counter the decline in the working-age population.
The fear that there might be conflict here too has had a disastrous effect on tourism, so much so that the Jordanian government recently announced measures to counter the decline – waiving visa fees for tourists and axing departure taxes.
But it has not been enough to counter the decline in conventional sales, which even two years ago forced the then chief executive Simon Fox to warn that the bank was being smothered by its mountain of debt.
Yet our governing elite now wants us to devote more time to "community building" (around family life, neighbourhood and church) to counter the decline of collectivity, which its own incessant imposition of managerialism and market imitation have furthered.
The authorities set out to stop them.In the diamond-mining town of Kono in eastern Sierra Leone, about 30 rebels surrendered their weapons to UN monitors.Russia faced criticism for declining to attend an EU-sponsored meeting of Caspian states in Azerbaijan that introduced measures to counter the decline of the sturgeon.
Tuna canners — Bumble Bee, StarKist and Chicken of the Sea — through the United States Tuna Foundation, are spending significant sums to counter the decline, through full-page advertisements and the foundation's Web site, tunafacts.com, and by fighting the California attorney general's lawsuit against the canners for not warning consumers about the mercury in their tuna.
Such materially engineered artificial plant pollinators should lead to the development of high-performance robotics that can help counter the decline in honeybee populations.
Evolutionary rescue is the process where the increase in a few well-adapted genotypes can counter the decline of a maladapted population during a period of environmental change (see Ferrière et al. (2004) for theory), and typically results in a U-shaped function of population size over time (Holt and Gomulkiewicz 2004).
