And there is a more subtle advantage for Mr. Putin: By haggling as an equal with Mr. Bush, he may help restore Russia's sense that it remains a major power in the world, despite its economic decline, its territorial shrinkage and its declining diplomatic influence.
I briefly stood where he stood under one of his high Adriatic skies, with my back to the church -- the Doge's Palace before me, behind me the church, which is nearly as good an emblem as the palace of Venetian imperial majesty, begun at the city's apex, after which came military decline and territorial loss.
Facing with a territorial dimension, it is necessary to decline common strategy in a specific context, elaborating different projects animated by a common aim.
Over the first 7 years, a large decline in abundance of territorial males (∼25%) is projected, unless population levels are maintained through immigration.
A recent study by Oxera and O&O bears out these concerns: if EU producers should no longer be free to sell film rights on a territorial basis, there will be a steep decline in EU audiovisual output overall.
1485), an esteemed member of Granada's middle class, who eschewed classic themes and wrote of such mundane phenomena as the increase in the cost of living or the decline of Granada and its continuous territorial losses.
Encroachment by Spanish as well as U.S. settlers continued such that by the end of the century native populations had declined dramatically due to disease and territorial pressures from the Europeans.
TOKYO — In the biggest sign yet of a strong recovery for Toyota Motor, the automaker raised its full-year profit forecast on Monday, shrugging off a sales decline in China brought about by a territorial spat between the two countries.
For the next 200 years the native population declined, largely as a result of European territorial encroachment and the diseases that the settlers brought.
Facultative delayed reproduction in response to other cues of impending population decline, such as population density, weather, predation or territorial conflict may be common.
