However, since 2000, hopes have been gradually fading.

We have fading memories of that provisional temple, erected each time an adult sat down.

But with disappear, there's really no analogies so Evan, what you want to do here is to imagine the cube slowly fading out, okay.

And just when you think these stories are fading into history, and that we've gotten over them, they pop up in the strangest places.

Blood comes gushing from your gashes. With your fading strength, you call 9 1 1 and you pray for a trained MD. But you get me.

Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is fading, and there is much rubbish so that we are not able to build the wall.

Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is fading, and there is much rubbish so that we are not able to build the wall.

TRIPOLI Egypt is not the only place where the bright hopes of the Arab Spring are fading. From attacks against Western governments to ethnic clashes in remote desert oases, Libya s revolution is faltering.

Today, with Venezuela s economy mired in high inflation and overly dependent on oil, Chávez is fading as a regional model and guide. He has also been startled by the rise of domestic opposition.

Günter Grass, a Nobel Prize winner in literature, joined the chorus of critics, complaining about the fading of political power in a time of globalization. He ridiculed today s conditions as stock market defined liberty.

Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!

Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!

LONDON Dramatic challenges, and mediocre responses that is the history of the European Union. All too rarely does the EU rise to the level of events, which is why Europe is fading economically and geopolitically.

Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley of those who are overcome with wine!

Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley of those who are overcome with wine!

The fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley, shall be like the first ripe fig before the summer which someone picks and eats as soon as he sees it.

The fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley, shall be like the first ripe fig before the summer which someone picks and eats as soon as he sees it.

But the memory of the Great Depression is fading today, and many people probably do not imagine that such a thing could be happening now. Surely, they think, economic weakness must be due to something more tangible than a feedback loop.

Within 15 minutes of the General s face fading from the screen, 40 army units in Algeria declared their loyalty. The men at the barricades were persuaded to leave their stronghold the insurrectionary leaders were either detained or escaped to Spain.

The drift in transatlantic relations during the eight years of George W. Bush s presidency was meant to be stopped and even reversed. That hope is fading, as the global economic crisis brings the differences between America and Europe to a head.

Likewise, in March 2007, the British government s top advisory body on science and technology warned that the country s lead in nanotechnology is fading, because the government has not invested enough in research necessary for understanding and effectively managing possible health and environmental effects.

The representative of Ethiopia said that, five years after the Millennium Declaration, an assessment of the progress made towards the MDGs revealed that the noble ambitions behind the Declaration were fading into a distant dream for Africa, home for the majority of LDCs.

That they want to get out, now that their reasons for the war have so dramatically collapsed and domestic support is fading, is beyond doubt. But neither wants to leave in ignominy, with their last man dramatically lifted of an embassy rooftop by helicopter.

Fading memories of past experiences allow new memories to bloom, much as decaying leaves allow for new growth. Forgetting thus affords us a second chance, individually and as a society, to rise above our past mistakes and misdeeds, to accept that humans change over time.

And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.

And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.

Long gone are the days when the prospect of accession to the European Union sustained a powerful dynamic of democratic reform. With hope of EU membership fading, reform momentum has been lost, and the European Commission is expected to issue a sharply critical progress report in October.

The bilateral relationship, born in the wake of the Nazis annihilation of European Jewry, has developed into a solid one. But fading memories of the Holocaust among younger Germans, together with Israel s declining international standing, have lately challenged the official discourse about special ties between the two countries.

And yet China s reliance on economic policies that require the heavy hand of the state to achieve officially decreed targets had been fading. The government s renewed focus on such a target is thus another indication that the global economic crisis has strengthened those Chinese officials and intellectuals who advocate a socialist system.

But what really invigorated politics in Hong Kong was the brutal crackdown in Beijing s Tiananmen Square and in other Chinese cities in 1989. Huge demonstrations took place in Hong Kong to protest the massacre, and massive commemorations of the event are held every June, keeping alive a memory that is repressed and fading in the rest of China.

But there is a more fundamental issue at play that stems from the accumulated imperfections of representative democracy in countries where social and economic conditions are less than ideal. When post authoritarian excitement abounded and rapid economic growth prevailed, these imperfections were manageable now, with the former fading and the latter a memory, they have become immense challenges.

They began to expand their welfare state, pushing the government s share in GDP from 39 to 49 and welcoming union proposed double digit wage increases. The signs of the fading miracle became visible when Japanese competitors and other Asian Tigers succeeded in wiping out substantial parts of Germany s labor intensive textile, optical products, and precision engineering industries.

If Merkel opts for substantial deficit spending now , she will lose support, which is already fading fast because of increased state debt, nationalization, stimulus programs, etc. But if unemployment shoots up in the early summer and some household name companies go under, she could be seen as having done too little, allowing the Social Democrats to grab the election.

They pointed out that most of the baguettes sold in the market recently were made of quick frozen doughs in mass production by adding some ingredients in addition to flour, water, yeast and salt. The traditional handmade bread shops were gradually fading away. They hoped that the world famous French skills could be protected by adding it to the nonmaterial cultural heritage list.

Given Egypt s mass death sentences, extrajudicial violence, and the dominance of hawks in the security and the military establishments, together with the rhetorical, behavioral, and organizational changes within the Muslim Brotherhood, the chances of reconciliation are fading by the day. In an environment in which compromise is regarded as a dirty word, Egypt s future appears to be far from bright.

Admittedly, violent Islamic fundamentalism has deeper roots in the fading promise of Arab nationalism. But America s misbegotten democratic message has ended up alienating both its conservative regional allies, as it gave a new lease on life to political Islam, which can use the ballot box as a route to power, and the Islamists, whose electoral gains are then rejected by the US.

The US does indeed face a long run fiscal deficit, largely the result of rising health care costs and an aging population. But the current fiscal deficit mainly reflects weak tax revenues, owing to slow growth and high unemployment, and temporary stimulus measures that are fading away at a time when aggregate demand remains weak and additional fiscal stimulus is warranted.

In fact, even the term chemical science enjoyed some popularity in the nineteenth century a time when the field sought to distinguish itself from alchemy and the promotion of quack nostrums. But the need to use that term to distinguish true science from the practice of imposters was already fading by the time the Nobel Prizes were launched in 1901.

But, though historical amnesia about the Great War is pervasive across India, the centenary is finally forcing a rethink. The British have been flocking to an exhibition showcasing Indian troops role the French are making a film about the brown skinned and turbaned men who fought to save their land from the Germans and, in India, curiosity has overcome the fading colonial era resentment of British exploitation.

With Myanmar Burma now the in destination for the world s hot money investors, the imperial decrepitude that Lewis described will doubtless soon be transformed, the archaic charm of a fading past demolished for the sake of modern commerce. This tranquil land of timeless faith, over which Buddha s benign statues preside a land of rivers, deep forests, and blood red rubies is now in play for international investors.

We know from influenza that a new epidemic can suddenly appear just as an older one is fading, if a new form of the virus appears, or if some environmental factor increases the contagion rate. Similarly, a new speculative bubble can appear anywhere if a new story about the economy appears, and if it has enough narrative strength to spark a new contagion of investor thinking.

A Greek exit from the eurozone, together with financial and political turmoil inside Greece, would be perceived as a major defeat for European integration especially after the laborious efforts made to hold together the monetary union and, with it, the European dream. Such an outcome would be even more disheartening in light of the tragic terrorist attacks in Paris, and after unity marches in France and across the continent rekindled a long fading sense of European solidarity.