Sentence examples for decline of state from inspiring English sources
With the decline of state churches, confessions are no longer legally established norms and can once again regain their original function of witnessing to basic convictions.
Finally, Mr. Hevesi urged the city to develop a long-range financial plan that would anticipate a new revenue source for the school system to replace the decline of state desegregation settlement payments, which will end in 2006.
The position of the papacy was enhanced by the decline of state power, and this prepared the way for the popes' temporal sovereignty over parts of Italy (which they retained from the 7th to the 19th century).
"The most obvious likely culprit is the rapid decline of state-funded social care in recent years, which is leaving hundreds of thousands of older people to struggle on alone at home without any help".
Even so, the overall decline of states' rights helped to create a terrible paradox in the 2000 election.
What we've been witnessing is the decline of state-society relations in which citizens no longer believe in their leaders, governments or certain policies -- and they are speaking out in violent and non-violent ways.
In countries like Egypt, Brazil, Greece, Thailand, Ukraine and beyond in the past six years, we've recurrently been witnessing the decline of state-society relations in which citizens believe in their leaders, political systems or certain policies less and less - and they have been speaking out in violent and non-violent ways.
The decline of the state pension began in 1980 when Margaret Thatcher's government severed the link between the state pension and average earnings, introduced by Labour's Barbara Castle in 1974.
In the same period, the share of white non-Hispanic children in Nevada declined to 44percentt, from nearly 54 percent, the biggest decline of any state.
Some other Venezuelans saw a government blunder that could accelerate the decline of the state oil company, Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA).
His purview moved from institutional analysis to more cultural critiques, like The Invention and Decline of Israeliness: State, Society and the Military (2001).
