But now, we have to get ready for cricket, and suffer the dual anxiety of setting unachievably high goals while confronting our own declining ability.
Stevens, towards the end of his term, was rather clear about the declining ability of lower interest rates to stimulate growth.
Both episodes feed into a perception of a declining American appetite for keeping the peace, and of a declining ability to do so.
But with venture capitalist firms stung by the impact of falling stock prices and a declining ability to recoup their investments through initial public offerings, young New York companies like RedTop have found it particularly hard to find investors.
The nation's declining ability to listen surreptitiously to global communications may turn out to have been a major reason there was little or no warning of hijackers intent on turning commercial jets into flying bombs, security experts say.
a growing dependence of the white man's goods, & a declining ability to provide for the selves in their traditional way, were found to be slowly dying of starvation.
He is thirty-four, and has shown declining ability at the plate and been slowed by injuries — he's played fewer than a hundred and thirty games in each of the past three seasons.
He was briefly good enough to be among the elite and was lucky to be owned by a high-level operation, but he faced a life of declining ability, weaker competition and lesser tracks.
The consensus that Britain is too centralised and its prosperity too concentrated on the south-east has hardened as politicians grapple with their unpopularity and declining ability to spend their way back to favour.
Sensing this, and thus his own declining ability to wield grievance to win concessions, Mr Jackson had some reason to be annoyed.If black communal influence has waned, it seems that of Latinos is rising.
