'With IVF came a gradual decay of hope,' says Lester.
The question to be raised is: if Europe alone is in gradual decay, what is replacing its hegemony?
The result was a leaderless world, the gradual decay of the world order and eventually World War II.
It was chosen as the temporary capital of independent Greece (1826 28), but afterward the increasing concentration of business in Athens forced a gradual decay.
Monitoring of pre-heat trains in oil refineries is a crucial activity to assess the gradual decay in performance of heat transfer equipment due to fouling.
The probable absence of permafrost in the catchment means that a lag between the two states due to its gradual decay is unlikely.
The second edition of the A.I.A. Guide to New York City, by Norval White and Elliot Willensky (Macmillan, 1978), praised the "berserk eclecticism" of the Raub house, but the fourth edition (Crown, 2000) lamented its gradual decay.
David Shambaugh ("Will the Party Lose China?," Op-Ed, Nov. 7) is correct in highlighting the Communist Party's gradual decay and the widespread cynicism of it within Chinese society.
One insistent question that will shape 2017 is whether we're witnessing the gradual decay of the post-World War II international order, dominated by the economic and military power of the United States.
In the not so distant past, it used to be directed leftward, but the demise of communism, followed by the gradual decay of post-communist social democrats, created a severely truncated political field.
Shōyō's own stance was clear: the "zenith" of the art was in the late eighteenth century and what followed from the early nineteenth century onward was a gradual decay.
