Such declines, seemingly paradoxically, were met by increasing concerns: violence diminished, but its residual image "darkened" (167), with growing anxieties about crimes passionnels, serial killing and a violent criminal underworld.
The modern crusade against voter fraud started in the civil rights era of the 1960s, with growing anxieties among white politicians and voters over the growing power of black and urban voters.
Hafez returned to New Haven and watched the news coming from Syria with growing anxiety.
Israel has watched with growing anxiety as Palestinian activists have succeeded in forcing Oxfam and Ms Johansson to make a choice.
Dangerously for the country's stability, it coincides with growing anxiety among intellectuals and the middle-class generally about where the country is heading.
An unusually warm November had left Park City and other Utah and Colorado resorts with brown, barren slopes, and left Olympic organizers with growing anxiety with the opening of the 2002 Games in February.
After the annexation of Austria in March 1938, with growing anxiety across Europe of a wider Nazi conflict, Hitler's Germany trained its attention on the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia, encouraging its ethnic German population to revolt and demand union with Germany.
Thanks to cloning and artificial insemination, I suspect some people are studying apparently "normal" animals and children with growing anxiety, looking for signs of difference, sure that some mark of essential freakishness will erupt.
Mr. Cohen, who has lived in his sunny rent-controlled apartment for more than 30 years, said he watched with growing anxiety as his landlord, Veronica Muth, who bought the building and another one down the street in 1996, began to convert apartments in both places into hotel-like rooms.
After two years of torturous transition, Egyptians have watched with growing anxiety as the erosion of the public trust in the government and a persistent security vacuum have fostered a new temptation to resort to violence to resolve disputes, said Michael Hanna, a researcher at the New York-based Century Foundation who is now in Cairo.
The game then changed in a matter of seconds as Wolves were revived with growing anxiety sweeping around Molineux after a sequence of eight defeats in their last 10 Premier League games.
