The rude awakening came when property values began to decline. For those without an equity cushion, refinancing was not a possibility, and rising interest rates have led to default, foreclosure, and homelessness.

In China s last protracted bout of deflation, from 1998 to 2002, persistent declines in prices were the result of monetary and fiscal tightening that began in 1993, compounded by the lack of exit mechanisms for failed enterprises. After peaking at 24 in 1994, inflation began to decline in 1995.

With the economy in steep decline, Poland s rulers began to seek to stabilize the political system and reestablish relations with the West. In 1986, the government released political prisoners a precondition for talks with the opposition.

When the Industrial Revolution began, Asia s share of the global economy began to decline from more than 50 to just 20 by 1900. By the second half of this century, Asia is expected to recover its former economic dominance that is, account for 50 of global output while lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty.

The Decline and Fall of America s Decline and Fall

Japan s Road to Harmonious Decline

AIPAC in Decline

America s Overrated Decline

Dignity or Decline?

I must decline.

The February 27 decline began with an 8.8 one day drop in the Shanghai Composite, following news that the Chinese government might tax capital gains more aggressively. This news should have been relevant only to China, but the drop there fueled declines worldwide.

This is a much bigger downswing than was recorded in the overall consumer confidence indices. The decline occurred over the better part of a decade, as we began to see the end of debt driven overexpansion, and accelerated with the latest debt crisis.

As a result, intra European trade and support for European institutions, having soared in the previous two decades, began to decline practically before the ink on the Maastricht Treaty was dry. The eurozone s protracted crisis, which began in 2008, has exacerbated this trend, with member countries still struggling to restore economic and financial stability and likely to continue to lag behind the rest of the world in terms of GDP growth.

And when my ritual began, this very voluble patient began to quiet down.

I did not decline.

America s Self Inflicted Decline

Debt and America s Decline

The Decline of Ahmedinejad

It began to snow.

It began to snow.

He began to cry.

He began to shout.

She began to sing.

And after that, most likely it's going to begin to decline.

I began to be very disinterested in computers themselves, so I began to make paintings out of PalmPilots.

It may decline some more.

The Challenge of Russia s Decline

The Decline of Renewable Energy

He began to feel afraid.

I began to learn Esperanto.

You began to learn Esperanto.

They all began to laugh.

It is very impolite of her to decline our invitation.

That's where dinosaurs began. That's where the radiation began.

The great population scare led to various birth control efforts around the world, notably to the one child policy instituted in China in 1979. Partly due to such efforts, as well as to a change in family values, the rate of growth of the world s population, began a long decline, to 1.1 in 2005.

America s leadership in world affairs began to weaken with the unilateralism of Bush, and today s economic problems are reinforcing this tendency. To reverse America s decline, Obama needs bipartisan support for his (quite mainstream) policies, but so far the US Congress has shown no stomach for a principled approach to its legislative duties.

It's been declining and I believe it will continue to decline.

The Decline of the West Revisited

The Decline of US Military Innovation

The High Cost of Ocean Decline

Unfortunately I must decline your invitation.

At last, it began to rain.

My heart began to beat fast.

The wheel began to roll slowly.

He began to eat his breakfast.