Defense has waned in influence since the end of the cold war in 1988, when military-related employment accounted for 96,200 jobs in the state.
Saborio had been working diligently to track back and help out his midfield in the first half, but had begun to wane in influence to become a more fitful irritant in the second.
As the rest of Rhode Island's population grew and expanded its use of land for settlement and the development of industry, the state's remaining Native Americans waned in influence and number.
In philosophy, Chinese Buddhism had waned in influence but it retained its hold on the arts and on the charities of monasteries.
Mr. Bernanke, 51, will be taking over a position that has waxed and waned in its influence over the years.
The meeting was brief, but it underscored an enduring fact of life for New York's governors and its representatives in Washington: political adversaries or not, they need one another to get things done for New York, particularly these days, with the state's influence waning in the nation's capital.
And according to a new study by Arvind Subramanian and Martin Kessler of the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, DC, the dollar's influence is waning in the emerging world.
He can still raise a ruckus, and make city officials miserable, but his influence is waning, in my opinion.
While Trump has stood by Lewandowski through the controversy, the political operative's influence has been waning in recent weeks.
The moral influence of the Roman Catholic Church is waning in the country.
While the two have theological differences — and similarities — the gathering conflict is being stoked by a determination by Sunni leaders to preserve, or reinvigorate, their waning influence in the region — while emboldened Shiites have pressed for more influence.
