Ice cover waxed and waned.

Yet lovers grew wary, once novelty waned To lie with a bloody man, his terror unfeigned.

The optimism evident at the time of that Conference had waned in the face of the very limited progress made in implementing the 13 practical steps agreed by all States parties.

The importance of ASW capability in the Western Pacific has not waned. On the contrary, recent illegal violation of Japanese territorial waters by Chinese nuclear submarines suggests that, rather than being reduced, ASW capability should be built up further.

Rivalries within and among the military services once mimicked the role of competition in the private sector they drove innovation. But with the end of the Cold War, the pressure to remain a step ahead has waned, depriving the defense sector of a crucial engine of progress.

LONDON Demonstrations around the world were held this week to mark the 100th day of captivity for more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls by the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram. Since their abduction in April, global outrage has not waned on the contrary, it has spurred a worldwide movement to uphold all girls basic rights.

That brings us to the third factor behind the global economy's anemic performance underinvestment, particularly by the public sector. In the US, infrastructure investment remains suboptimal, and investment in the economy's knowledge and technology base is declining, partly because the pressure to remain ahead in these areas has waned since the Cold War ended.

As its economic and geopolitical influence has waned, so has its willingness to consider renouncing its nuclear status. Indeed, not only has it revived the Cold War era tactic of sending military aircraft unannounced into airspace over the Baltic countries and the North Sea it has also made veiled nuclear threats against countries like Denmark.

In Libya, the fortunes of Saif al Islam and Muatasim have waxed and waned as Qaddafi enforces his authority to prevent the emergence of a challenger. While few obstacles remain in Gamal s path to power in Egypt, in Algeria, meanwhile, a bid to install Said would likely collapse against resistance from powerful regime interests.

Similarly, the terms astronomical science and hypnotic science mostly died out as the twentieth century progressed, perhaps because belief in the occult waned in respectable society. Yes, horoscopes still persist in popular newspapers, but they are there only for the severely scientifically challenged, or for entertainment the idea that the stars determine our fate has lost all intellectual currency.

Since the early part of the twentieth century and, most clearly, since John Paul II s papacy (1978 2005) the traditional dominance of Italy and other European countries in the locations of blessed persons has waned. This is reflected in the two stages of saint making beatification (the first stage of the process and currently the status of John Paul II) and canonization.

To be sure, many of Iran s ruling elites came of age politically during the anti imperialist and anti colonialist agitations of the 1960 s and 1970 s, and still cling to that worldview. Although their revolutionary zeal may have waned over the years, they still tend to share the outlook of the late Ayatollah Khomeini, who likened the relationship between Iran and the US to that between a sheep and a wolf.