Yet especially over the past few decades, the strength of this commitment has waned. |
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Then we heard that the water was opening for pike fishing, so the trout interest waned somewhat. |
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The gush of oil enthusiasm waned and it was 20 years before any further real interest was shown in the Moturoa field. |
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Those who attack the veil often do so, not out of republican passion, but because that passion has waned. |
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My joy waned as I was greeted by the bright faces of Trevor and Simon looking up at me from the front of the card. |
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As a result, the Commonwealth's powers have waxed and the residual ones of the states have waned. |
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Though my friend's interest waned and our friendship failed, my interest in the Craft only grew stronger. |
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When his political aspirations waned, he thought the video would serve as social commentary. |
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Interest had waned over time although expectations were high that the site clean-up might re-awaken it. |
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From 1575 to the start of the eighteenth century, mining waxed and waned throughout the Andes. |
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As a result, the use of corticosteroids in head injury has waxed and waned over time, with extensive variations in practice. |
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The pain had waxed and waned during the intervening months, and he had been to several other health clinicians. |
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After an initial surge of enrolments in kohanga and kura, enthusiasm among Maori has waned. |
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In modern language, this account relates how Mohammed's vision of the Archangel waned and disappeared. |
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But criticism of the 19-foot-long, 12-miles-per-gallon land yacht hasn't waned. |
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I have found that, with my mother nursing me again, we have grown closer, even though my argumentative manner hasn't waned with my health. |
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Once well-deserved celebrations waned, the daunting task of finding a space loomed large. |
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And as native vegetation waned, introduced alien species such as salt cedar and Russian olive have virtually exploded along western rivers. |
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The Byzantines experienced some prosperity in the twelfth century, but their political and military power waned. |
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His hunger hasn't waned, his appetite for the game remains totally undiminished. |
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I was still collecting and mounting insects but my enthusiasm waned when my prize collection was destroyed by museum beetles. |
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Since his death there may not have been a drop-off in crime but the number of high-profile criminal heavyweights has waned. |
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If enthusiasm for monarchy waned, did the emergence of feasible alternatives explain subsequent political changes? |
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But its popularity gradually waned as Discovery failed to catch the interest of local viewers who channel-hop to see something new. |
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Warm chinook winds from over the mountains to the west created the first open pastures as winter waned. |
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Having divorced his mentally unstable wife, he finds that his interest in the life of the clergyman has waned. |
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Interest in ice boating waned again, and the ice yachts were gradually stored in barns and sheds all over town. |
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Sadly around fifteen years ago interest waned and the club ceased to be active. |
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He said the tragedy still captured the public imagination and interest in it had not waned. |
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As the protest movement waned, the military deliberately fomented communal conflict as a means of reasserting its authority. |
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Public interest in medical treatment for inebriates waxed when local prohibition laws and sentiment waned. |
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I really did think their influence had waned to a point where they were as insignificant as they deserved to be. |
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The moon, waned away to a tiny crescent, didn't emit enough light for him to be sure of his way. |
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Over the past two centuries, Hamilton's reputation has waxed and waned as America has glorified or debunked businessmen. |
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First, enforcement of the regulations designed to limit the number of proprietary products entering the inventory appears to have waned. |
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The trophy couldn't have gone to a nicer guy, whose enthusiasm hasn't waned despite his advancing years. |
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It's at this point that we come to the dismal apprehension of why attention waned in the first place. |
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However his enthusiasm soon waned when he became disorientated by the black and white print map. |
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In Latin Europe, the communist parties weakened as the era of Eurocommunism waned. |
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There were few doctrinaires in Parliament, and the reforming zeal of the Whigs rapidly waned. |
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When demand for whale oil waned, the city became a mill town. |
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On the other side, there are scores of Republicans whose boundless enthusiasm for war has waned considerably. |
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Its prestige waxed and waned as Thatcherism died and the Blair era arrived. |
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It seems to have died down now that the song's popularity has waned. |
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Over time, the Spanish and Italian influences waned as other influences took precedence and Dutch tiles developed their own special characteristics. |
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Although the popularity of wallpaper has waned somewhat over the last few years, designers and home owners are now rediscovering the appeal of decorative wallcoverings. |
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The Berlin Wall has fallen, people are more self-interested, the level of interest in politics has waned, sovereignty has been sloughed off, family structures have crumbled. |
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Over time, levels of criminal behavior have waxed and waned. |
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Fortunately, good sense intervened and I eventually got an education, but my fascination with furbearers, trappers and the trapping lifestyle has never waned. |
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By the late 13th century, royal power had waned, and the nobility forced the king to grant a charter, considered Denmark's first constitution. |
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Denisovans had little genetic diversity, suggesting that their small population waned further as populations of modern humans expanded. |
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Proud once and princely was the mansion, ere a succession of spendthrifts waned away its splendour. |
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Once a force to be reckoned with and breeding ground for tomorrow's leaders, the influence of student unions has in recent years waned. |
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When Marston died in 1947, her political edge waned still further. |
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Byron's interest in her had waned and Claire used the opportunity of introducing him to the Shelleys to act as bait to lure him to Geneva. |
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As a boy and young man, Britten had intensely admired Brahms, but his admiration waned to nothing, and Brahms seldom featured in his repertory. |
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The tradition of celebration St George's day had waned by the end of the 18th century after the union of England and Scotland. |
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After that, Disraeli's influence on Murray waned, and to his resentment he was sidelined in the affairs of The Representative. |
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Unionist support for O'Neill waned, and on 28 April he resigned as Prime Minister. |
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However, with the early death of McCartney, confidence in the country's leadership waned. |
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During the 18th century this idea waned and finally disappeared as the two party system developed. |
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Many moons had waxed and waned when on the afternoon of a lovely summer day a lusty broad-boned knight was riding through the forest of Sherwood. |
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Though its popularity waned over the 20th century, it is currently experiencing a small revival. |
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Meanwhile, the influence of European great powers waned, while the decolonisation of Africa and Asia began. |
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The programme's popularity has waxed and waned over the decades, with three notable periods of high ratings. |
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While its cultural impact has waxed and waned over the decades, power pop is among rock's most enduring subgenres. |
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By the time the International Seabed Authority was in place in 1994, interest in the extraction of nodules waned. |
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However, these tended to have a high accident rate, and the public's interest rapidly waned. |
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Support for the old emperor waned as more legions around the empire pledged their allegiance to Vespasian. |
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By the late Ming period, Ming political presence in Manchuria had waned considerably. |
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As the community continued to develop and as Byzantine power waned, its autonomy grew, leading to eventual independence. |
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Highly decorative Canton porcelain was produced throughout the 19th century, but the quality of wares waned. |
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Though scholarly interest waned greatly throughout the 20th century, such differences of approach persist today. |
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Trust in European institutions has waned across the continent. |
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Beerlore indeed gave way to druglore, and student attitudes and values shifted as Greek life waned. |
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However, by the time he reached his teenage years his symptoms apparently waned and his family took some notice of his scholarly interests. |
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The power of the Cabal waned and that of Clifford's replacement, Lord Danby, grew. |
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Meanwhile, the influence of European great powers waned, while the decolonisation of Asia and Africa began. |
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Early enthusiasm waned as British policies came under fire in Commonwealth meetings. |
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He attracted a certain amount of local criticism and ridicule at the time then interest waned. |
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It continues to be an administrative language in Laos and Cambodia, although its influence has waned in recent years. |
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Once her support waned, the following year he resold his loyalty to Stephen. |
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The crooner died in 1998 yet his music has not waned in popularity. |
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Just as that annoying vowelless text speak was unavoidable when mobile phones became universal, but eventually waned, I believe an emoji decline is on the cards. |
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The one time league leaders can point to poor away form as a reason their challenge has waned in recent weeks, but they also came up against a vastly improved Newry side. |
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But this has somewhat waned, which is why Graeae remains as important as ever to remind people we are part of the fabric of society and we aren't going anywhere. |
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Each phase is characterised by channel incision initiated during wetter periods and ended with aggradation as the climate dried and discharge waned. |
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As the use of ambergris waned, this became the main sense of the word. |
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Cash flow pressure during 2013 could acerbate their needs to access capital markets during a period in which investor sentiment toward the sector has waned. |
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At the heart of the comment lay, however, one of the most important reasons for the Tories woes, as Thatcherism waxed and waned and Majorism lurched from crisis to crisis. |
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However, its popularity and prestige as a centre of pilgrimage waned with the Reformation, and by the time of the French Revolution there were scarcely any monks in residence. |
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Leigh's romantic relationship with Finch began in 1948, and waxed and waned for several years, ultimately flickering out as her mental condition deteriorated. |
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During the 1960s, the Egyptian economy went from sluggish to the verge of collapse, the society became less free, and Nasser's appeal waned considerably. |
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Eventually, through death and retirements, this power waned. |
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After 1630, Scottish migration to Ireland waned for a decade. |
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Infection with most pathogens does not result in death of the host and the offending organism is ultimately cleared after the symptoms of the disease have waned. |
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By the 1840s some of the enthusiasm for Kempthorne's designs had waned. |
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The custom waxed and waned over the years, but has seen revivals in Derbyshire, Staffordshire, South Yorkshire, Cheshire, Shropshire, Worcestershire and Kent. |
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However as the power of the aristocracy waned during the 19th century the convention developed that the Prime Minister should always sit in the lower house. |
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As the military importance of urban castles waned from their early origins, they became more important as centres of administration, and their financial and judicial roles. |
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Arthurian literature thrived during the Middle Ages but waned in the centuries that followed until it experienced a major resurgence in the 19th century. |
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