The fighting grew bloodier.

My grandmother was gradually becoming forgetful and frail.

The older she grew, the more beautiful she become.

The deeper we dived, the colder the water got.

The weather was getting worse and worse as the day went on.

The more I spoke, the wider her grin became.

She grew every day more and more beautiful.

Teamwork has repeatedly fallen hostage to turf wars and political bickering.

The little money I had saved was becoming less and less every day.

Critics of Japan's defense posture over the years have sometimes been unforgiving. The Economist, indeed, once derided the Japanese as kamikaze pacifists.''

Critics of Japan's defense posture over the years have sometimes been unforgiving.

They were killing too many of us, and the burden grew heavy on my shoulders.

It can and does move when the hand of government becomes too heavy or grasping.

Economic reform was often simplistically understood as only (or at least above all) encompassing macroeconomic stabilisation as promoted by the so called 'Washington consensus,' now being condemned by demonstrators in the streets of Washington. It is no surprise that the results of so simplistic a policy prescription were often illiberal democracy and crony capitalism.

It is no surprise that the results of so simplistic a policy prescription were often illiberal democracy and crony capitalism.

Before the crisis, the IMF s best known function lending to countries with balance of payment problems was becoming irrelevant.

At one moment she appeared to be in love with him, and at the next would turn cold, irritable, and impenetrable.

They can also take steps to make ODA more predictable from year to year.

The mud made the roads impassable two mills had been carried away by floods, and the weather was getting worse and worse.

These decisions have become more alarming over time as the need for more Europe has become progressively more obvious.

But the more the US and authoritarian Arab regimes attacked the station, the more the station became a reflector of some of the radical Islamic trends.

Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar want a Syria that keeps Iran at a distance and does not become a source of cross border militancy.

She did not want strife and blamed him for wanting to fight, but yet she involuntarily took up a fighting attitude.

Then, too, central banks were blamed when their policy framework (at that time the gold standard) disintegrated.

But the nearer the hour for his departure approached the harder seemed the sacrifice he was making to what he considered his duty.

He felt that love had saved him from despair, and that that love under the menace of despair grew still stronger and purer.

With the rise of nationalism, however, it became increasingly difficult for London to declare war on behalf of the empire, the defense of which became a heavier burden.

For me, at NIH now for almost 20 years, there has never been a time where there was more excitement about the potential that lies in front of us.

The deceased were handsome young men in their twenties. I would become so obsessed that I visited their personal pages to learn about the real person behind the face of the victim, or the murderer, or both. We had enough luxury, comfort, clarity of vision, and extra room for more grief.

William II had appointed his wife as his son's guardian in his will however the document remained unsigned at William II's death and was void.

Luckily, Brazil was also becoming a very expensive economy as a result of fixing the Brazilian Real to the US dollar in 1994.

It is incumbent on industries that deal with the poor to be transparent about how they earn their money and to make the case for their activities strongly and publicly.

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Banking reform, for example, frequently soon required government bail outs, leaving a few people much richer, but the country much poorer.

These two systems operate side by side, but the border that separates them has gradually become more porous, and the open breaches in it have become ever greater.

With that simple decision, I knew that German history would soon change, for easier travel meant that the Wall was passable for everyone.

Asian leaders have often complained that at a time when Asia became increasingly interconnected and China began to enlarge its sphere of influence, America was largely absent in the region.

As the government attempted to direct these gains toward wealth redistribution, public expenditure rose and the social benefits system underpinned by so called acquired rights became increasingly rigid.

In country after country, that Manichean mindset, with its oversimplifications and manipulations, was merely re fashioned to serve the new people in power.

Bad as this would be, it would be preferable to a complete rupture, which would place her in a hopeless and shameful position, and deprive him of all he loved.

In country after country, that Manichean mindset, with its oversimplifications and manipulations, was merely re fashioned to serve the new people in power.

This fairy could take any shape she pleased. All the day long she flew about in the form of an owl, or crept about the country like a cat but at night she always became an old woman again.

The correspondence lasted for four years, and, as the newspaper Young Stalinist wrote, in 1939, the friendship between Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya and the friends of the children's library in the city of Barnaul grew stronger each day.

Under that bargain, the bigger states accepted restraints on their power in order to increase the weight of the Union as a whole while the smaller ones realized that being part of the club gave them a chance they would not have otherwise, namely to participate in the shaping of common policies. Europe, once the continent of power clashes and balances, became a community of law where big and small follow common rules to reach common decisions.

Europe, once the continent of power clashes and balances, became a community of law where big and small follow common rules to reach common decisions.