Countries focus inwards, trade declines as a proportion of GDP and growth shrinks.
Stocks inched higher yesterday, shaking off earlier declines, as a gauge of consumer confidence showed a rise for November.
And the risk of casualties must be accepted, although it declines as a force's size and firepower increase.
While the region's difficulties persisted with the political gridlock in Greece, investors used the market's declines as a buying opportunity.
Traders seized on last week's stock declines as a chance to get back in at lower prices, and they pushed shares of financial firms sharply higher.
IMDb user rating is an encouraging 8.0/10, although that number usually declines as a film goes beyond its fanbase and reaches a wider audience.
At the end of the US premiere at SXSW, O'Connor explained the difficulties involved in getting all parties involved to appear – Jim Reid agrees, William Reid declines as a result, and so on.
The government has said the GIB won't be allowed to borrow until national debt declines as a percentage of GDP– a constraint which may not be met until 2017.
Results of the Wider Countryside Butterfly Survey (WCBS) show that the majority of farmland species have recovered after the worst year on record for butterflies in 2012, when 52 out of 56 British species monitored suffered declines as a result of miserably wet weather.
The ratio of stocks to bonds in age-based funds declines as a child ages; the funds for 5-year-olds are mainly stock funds, although the formula varies from plan to plan, and those with the heaviest concentration of fixed-income investments have had the best performance this year.
The report found "agricultural change was by far the most significant driver of declines", as a result of switching from spring to autumn sowing, which reduces food and habitat for many species, intensification of grazing, increased use of pesticides and fertilisers and loss of marginal habitats, such as ponds and hedgerows.
