However much military hardware a superpower owns, decay of the will to use it is the same thing as a decay of effective power. After a time, it ceases to overawe.

One is, for instance, technetium is a radioactive element with a decay time of 4.2 million years.

Universities Renaissance or Decay?

Salt helps to preserve food from decay.

Date of decay 19 May 1980 GMT

Date of decay 29 June 1980 GMT

Date of decay 12 May 1983 GMT

But he whom God raised up saw no decay.

But he whom God raised up saw no decay.

Many local traditions have fallen into decay in recent years.

Come here at a certain time, get your drinks half off.

So if you toss a coin twice, the chance of getting a head twice are a half that's the chance the first time times a half the chance a second time.

The satellite functioned until its in orbit decay on 12 February 1995.

The players ran off the pitch and had a meeting during half time.

Every time I fall in love, Dad tells me the girl is my half sister.

So this triptych, these three panels portray the timeless truth that order tends to decay.

If one machine can cut necessary human labor by half, why make half of the workforce redundant, rather than employing the same number for half the time? Why not take advantage of automation to reduce the average working week from 40 hours to 30, and then to 20, and then to ten, with each diminishing block of labor time counting as a full time job?

Half of the time, Horowitz told the owner of a dog that had actually left the biscuit alone that his dog had taken the treat. And half the time the owner of a naughty dog was told that his dog had been good.

Another problem is the nuclear waste that emerges when energy is produced in the decay process. The waste can be substantially, or even completely, reduced if we could use an alternative form of nuclear decay that is triggered by externally accelerated particles.

So they plugged him in again, and this time they used 110 volts for half a second.

Information can be sent over half a kilometer away in a very short time through this mechanism.

Already, the new procedure has cut in half the time required to dispose of 12 interlocutory appeals.

(iii) The approximate date of decay or re entry, if States are capable of verifying that information

Therefore he says also in another psalm, 'You will not allow your Holy One to see decay.'

Therefore he says also in another psalm, 'You will not allow your Holy One to see decay.'

Half the challenge is to get access, is to be in the right place at the right time.

We don't know what's going on half the time, so it puts us in a very tenuous position.

The outskirts of Ashkelon were hit by rockets for the first time in two and a half years.

And we know very well that geothermal energy is mostly produced by decay of uranium, thorium, and potassium.

Entropy means that everything in the world, everything, is in a state of decline and decay, the arch.

Menga struck seven minutes before half time and a Rangers line up short on inspiration never looked like levelling.

For example, a new procedure has already cut in half the time required to dispose of 12 interlocutory appeals.

Allocation of the funds for approximately half of the package was authorized at the time of the Gaza withdrawal.

because you will not leave my soul in Hades , neither will you allow your Holy One to see decay.

because you will not leave my soul in Hades , neither will you allow your Holy One to see decay.

But half the time, what she would do is take a little bit of the broccoli and go, Mmmmm, broccoli.

Remember to apply sunblock half an hour in advance, because sunscreen products take time to completely penetrate into the skin.

So when dolphins are separating by less than 20 meters, less than half the time they need to use whistles.

GB made wholesale changes at half time and they plugged the Fijian dam...for all of four minutes, which by first half standards was good, until Josua Tuisova went over after some brilliant Fijian interplay.

RHex's foot started off to be quite simple, then it got tuned over time, and ultimately resulted in this half circle.

42. Decides that the United Nations Dispute Tribunal shall, initially, be composed of three full time judges, to be located in New York, Geneva and Nairobi, and two half time judges

So, you're living through a time when virtually half of humanity's intellectual, social and spiritual legacy is being allowed to slip away.

But half the time we would pick it up with an expectant look on our faces, there would be no dial tone.

And curiously, and interestingly, it looks as though at any time about half the ants in the colony are just doing nothing.

However, two and a half years ago, the LTTE walked away from the peace talks for the sixth time in 18 years.