And inflation has come down.

Nonfinancial corporate debt has fallen only slightly.

The national army has shrunk.

The canneries are gone. The pollution has abated.

Why has violence decreased?

Illegal logging has decreased considerably.

And yet society s trust in science has not wavered.

War is simply no longer the best option, and that is why violence has decreased.

The use of torture had declined sharply.

Since then, however, the share of imports has decreased, and it should continue to do so.

Why has the birthrate declined so sharply?

Recently, the dignity and importance of the Japanese father has diminished.

Violence has declined dramatically over the last 500 years.

Now their interest has faded, along with the macroeconomic numbers.

Profitability has been sustained , employment growth has been robust and the unemployment rate has fallen to levels not seen for 25 years .

Capital s share of national income has increased, while labor s share has fallen.

Scientists think now our magnetic field may be diminished by about five percent.

The fleet of double decker buses in Berlin fell from 1,000 in 1992 to 450 in 2002.

Namun demikian, di balik meningkatnya kesepakatan ilmiah yang berusia 50 tahun, pemanasan bumi terus terjadi.

Profitability has been sustained and unemployment rates have fallen to levels not seen for 25 years .

To be sure, Greece s trade deficit has declined, but only because imports collapsed.

These areas account for less than 8 of federal spending, and their share has been declining steadily.

Inflation differentials are modest

It is true that US attention to Latin America has waned in recent years.

Investment has fallen from 22.3 of GDP in 2000 to 17 in 2013.

The yen s value against the US dollar has declined by more than 7 in the last month.

With the defeat and demise of Saddam Hussein, the danger of an Eastern front against Israel has diminished.

But the flood has not yet receded and once the water is gone, the next challenge is the rehabilitation of damaged communities.

The number of Americans calling Japanese trade practices unfair has fallen from 63 in 1989 to just 24 currently.

Sales have decreased these days.

My recollection from the last elections is quite the contrary all Danish EC parties solemnly promised that we would not have an EC monetary union, that we would not have a common currency or a common central bank.

The result has been a sharp drop in output and employment, reinforcing fears about the future, and further decreasing spending. nbsp

Investment demand has slackened not because interest rates are too high, but because there is not enough risk appetite within the banking system.

The fundamentals of the euro area economy are sound , profitability has been sustained , employment growth has been robust and unemployment rates have fallen to levels not seen for 25 years .

Since he was elected two years ago his party's share of the vote has fallen by perhaps 8 .

In the case of swap trading , the euro 's share has decreased compared to the share of the Deutsche Mark .

A non bailable arrest warrant has been issued against Abdul Aziz, but the momentum of public protests has not dwindled as sit ins continue outside the Red Mosque and Aabpara police station.

While the profit share started from a historically high level , it has declined to below the historical average since 1970 .

More recently , the former decreased and the latter narrowed somewhat while remaining relatively high .

But the jail term for sedition cases has been increased and the requirements to prove sedition have been relaxed.

Efforts to discourage refugees from arriving have not diminished the number of people who are granted asylum in Europe they have merely made the process of being granted refugee status more random and dangerous.

But, if America s protective power has receded, its power to inspire remains unique and can still redound to its benefit in the most spectacular way.

In addition, though, there are considerable political risks in the background the hostility of the Arab and Muslim masses the possibility of terrorism in countries that have irresponsibly allowed millions of immigrants to settle on their territory, without any controls whatsoever.

As Pinker convincingly shows, violence of all kinds has declined over the millennia, in recent centuries, and during the past decades.

As countries like Greece have cut their expenditures, others, like Germany, have not expanded theirs.