Sentence examples for nations decline from inspiring English sources
Olson argued that nations decline because their aging institutions get bloated and sclerotic and retard national dynamism.
Great nations decline in different ways: by losing wars, overreaching, collapsing internally.
Some Eastern European nations decline to pay high American wages, and they put up with potential security problems posed by having American citizens inside their embassy walls.
Mr. Dabbashi also said that he wanted the International Criminal Court at the Hague to investigate Colonel Qaddafi for what he termed "crimes against humanity and crimes of war" and asked that other nations decline to offer him a safe haven.
In 2009 and 2010, disbursements by donor nations declined.
The scheme was made voluntary after some nations declined to meet set quotas.
At this point, America is one of only two major industrialized nations declining to abide by Kyoto.
As they usually do when intelligence matters are concerned, spokesmen for the three nations declined to comment.
Nearly half the continent – 24 countries – ranked at their lowest scores yet in the past decade, with 15 nations declining by more than 20 points since 2006.
According to the latest estimates by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (O.E.C.D ., the average work week in twenty-four of its thirty-two member nations declined from 2011 to 2012, to just under thirty-four hours a week.
According to the latest estimates by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (O.E.C.D ., the average work week in twenty-four of its thirty-two member nations declined from 2011 to 2012, to just under thirty-four hours a week.
