Just as the U.S. Federal Reserve crushed the housing boom, rockets over Haifa spell trouble for world markets that need to factor in scare prices for oil as well as waning consumer sentiment.
In recent years, there has been concern that foreign investment in the United States is waning, partially from protectionist sentiment and partially from changes in U.S. regulations and accounting procedures that might induce foreign firms to set up operations in other countries.
I had an apartment and a life there for one, and I really liked China--though that sentiment was waning with every failed attempt to crack the visa code.
For the labor movement, the vote also amounts to a challenge as unions struggle to retain relevance in the face of waning membership and mixed public sentiment.
With optimism that the vote would proceed smoothly already waning in the face of overwhelming secessionist sentiment in the south, and equally overwhelming denial of such sentiment in the north, Aly Verjee, the author, goes a step further.
Many of today's players echo the sentiment that left-handedness is of waning, or no, benefit.
As long as we don't begin to see optimism waning, we can expect that the very mild improvement in sentiment will help keep the housing market steady in early 2017.
The French-only language law, known as Bill 101, remains on the books, though separatist sentiment has waned.
Anti-migrant sentiment was always present, but for a while in the early noughties it seemed it was waning, that a new, more cosmopolitan Britain was being born.
Business activity is waning.
