But that segment did not escape decline, falling 27 percent to $724 million.
But Merkel underlined that this is no longer enough if Europe is to escape decline, defeatism, and increasing irrelevance in the world.
But almost all of the biggest cities will escape decline (see map).Shrinking cities can be found in the post-industrial rustbelts of the American Midwest, eastern Europe and northern England.
It makes the acquisitions look a desperate attempt to escape declining production.
Only Campbell Soup, McDonald's and Wal-Mart escape declining sales as consumers trade down.
Spatio-temporally variable landscapes may drive selection of traits that promote dispersal, as greater dispersal abilities and propensity to disperse in these landscapes may confer fitness advantages, allowing individuals and populations to track available resources and escape declining local conditions.
In Luton, 29 miles from the centre of London, the average home-buyer paid £152,000 in 2008, but will find the property is worth just £125,000 today, while some northern cities such as York have largely escaped declines.
With the North Sea just starting to yield its treasure, the SNP urged Scots to escape from decline and chaos by choosing prosperous, oil-funded independence.
But no, these stories are not meant to send us cowering into bunkers or heading for borders to escape the decline of the American state.
Failure of CTL responses to strongly target functional or structurally critical regions of the virus, as well as the sequential cascade of CTL responses, followed closely by viral escape and decline of the corresponding responses, likely contribute to a lack of sustainable viral suppression.
Because, if it's one of the people we always use" – you will have to fill in the names because, with characteristic diplomacy, David Tennant's co-star in BBC1's The Escape Artist declines to do so – "they are so layered with stuff we know about them: 'Oh, they were in that', or, 'They're married to so and so'.
