Third, the secular decline in their commodity prices had resulted in a debt overhang that siphoned off scarce resources that could otherwise have been used to fight poverty.

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But, of course, our secular religion is technology.

Mexico is already enjoying a manufacturing boom that has increased its exports to the US, following a long secular decline. With China s wages soaring and rising oil prices driving up shipping costs, production in Mexico is suddenly looking much more attractive, even taking security concerns into account.

Think of it as a kind of secular church.

Why has religion returned to secular and democratic politics?

They ensure that India remains secular, democratic and pluralistic.

There are secular kooks there are smart kooks, dumb kooks.

But the secular minded people can be influenced by that.

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I must decline.

Gul s wife s headscarf was interpreted as the symbol of darker changes to come. If the First Lady wears a headscarf, maintained the secular minded elite, the whole secular system could be undermined.

I did not decline.

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Why is there such disparity between the secular realm and the sacred?

The unemployment rate has dropped to 5 , just above the Fed s current median estimate for the non accelerating inflation rate of unemployment (NAIRU). While the true NAIRU level is probably lower, and we are likely witnessing a secular decline in the workforce participation rate, the US labor market should still tighten in 2016.

It may decline some more.

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But compassion is also equally at home in the secular as in the religious.

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Unfortunately I must decline your invitation.

On the one hand was my mother, a well educated, secular, modern, westernized, Turkish woman.

How to bridge the gap in developing countries between secular, more or less Westernized urban elites and the rural poor is an old question. One solution is to enforce secular modernization by oppressing the poor and their religious organizations.

The armed forces, however, claim a constitutional mandate to protect the Republic s secular traditions. And Turkey s generals have intervened in politics several times to defend Kemalism Atatürk s secular ideology of modernization that pushed Islamic Turkey towards European style liberalism.

The Algerian secularists strategy of exclusion, fraud, cheating, and gerrymandering backfired badly Islamists were perceived as victims, while secularists with some exceptions were cast as unprincipled opportunists. Enforcing a secular constitution before elections does not guarantee a secular outcome.

Some people say it's not population decline.

But the recession triggered sudden and sustained declines in the LFPR across all age groups in response to weak demand and poor job prospects. A recent CBO analysis attributes about one half of the decline in the LFPR from the end of 2007 to the end of 2013 to these cyclical factors, with the remainder explained by secular demographic trends.

There was a big decline in coffee prices.

This represents a substantial decline over previous years.

The second largest group, of nearly 30 million, is the one described as non religious or secular.

This secular non religious vote, if properly mobilized, is nine times as numerous as the Jewish vote.

Their exports went down a lot in the early 1990s and actually that decline lines up really, really closely with this decline in new HIV infections.

There are no quick processes in economics except decline.

Well, in fact, the arts are not in decline.