But with short-term rates now near zero and longer-term rates still at historical lows, it's almost impossible for rates to decline any further.
He began by listing five moral, religious, and practical objections to duelling, but ruefully concluded, seven paragraphs later, that "what men of the world denominate honor" made it impossible for him to "decline the call".
And just as Mr. Dodd did a year ago, Mr. Lieberman on Wednesday announced the end of his Senate career in a situation that once would have seemed impossible to imagine — declining to run for re-election in a race certain to be brutal and with a good chance of being unsuccessful.
But for lower-income mothers — including many who work in restaurants, factories, call centers and the military — pumping at work is close to impossible, causing many women to decline to breast-feed at all, and others to quit after a short time.
Out of a total of 940 GPs and 174 PHC centres three GPs were selected at each of the 50 PHC centres, one as the primary respondent, and two additional as stand-in if the primary respondent should be impossible to reach or decline to participate.
"This is important because countries begin to decline when interest groups get too strong and make it impossible to change and innovate.
By then, though, some men had died, and some were impossible to reach or declined to respond — leaving forty per cent of the former subjects unaccounted for.
It is impossible to blame the decline of one word on the rise of another.
Many in the restaurant business worry that it may be impossible to reverse the decline, which affects 50 million to 60 million young people.
In recent decades, many denominations have seen slow declines in attendance and membership, declines impossible to hide.
