"When 9/11 took place, the overarching feeling was a feeling of decline, of incapacity to change our situation," said Amr Hamzawy, a political scientist who is forming a secular, liberal political party in Egypt.
The feeling of decline has persuaded the village's chapter of the national agricultural cooperative to do what was once unthinkable here, and support Mr. Yokoyama instead of the Liberal Democratic candidate.
President Obama seized on that feeling of national decline and tried to turn it into a drive to compete.
Studies have shown that the feeling of thirst declines with age.
Thus, in contexts of rapidly shifting gender relations where gender-transformative work is embedded, requests to shift men in the direction of more gender equality can be met by men with feelings of a decline in masculine status or household authority, feelings of uselessness and a destabilised sense of what it means to be a man (Messner 1998; Sideris 2004).
Compared with their nonmigrant counterparts, older migrants face not only issues caused by aging, such as feelings of boredom, declining physical mobility, and shrinking social contacts (see, e.g., Mellor et al. 2008) but also challenges generated in the migration context.
Earnestly desiring leisure, feeling a decline of his physical powers, and wincing under abuses of the opposition, Washington refused to yield to the general pressure for a third term.
Martin Nilsson, an analyst at Handelsbanken, a bank in Stockholm, said Alcatel-Lucent was feeling the effects of declining demand in North America, its biggest market, for network gear that runs on the code division multiple access, or C.D.M.A., standard, which is being phased out by Verizon Wireless, the market leader in the United States.
Endless public-opinion polls reflect the pervasive sense of decline — the feeling that it has never been so bad to be French, and the fear that it can only get worse.
As the intensity of feeling begins to decline, the time is then ripe to quicken the end of crowd behaviour by intensifying negotiations with spokesmen respected by the crowd.
It is important for women to know that there is no clinically significant association between planned place of birth and sense of control, and that, when transfer is necessary, feelings of control might decline, but the choice for birth setting has no influence on this decline.
