Its deployed forces are extremely small, accounting for 4 of all military personnel worldwide, versus 14 for the US.

It is the only world region where military expenditures are decreasing.

Why is that significant?

But the odds on a soft landing are lengthening with each passing day.

Your analytic abilities decline as your wide awakedness declines.

Do you think that's significant?

The public health system is in disarray, mortality rates have increased, and birthrates are declining.

The same study also shows that smaller glaciers are shrinking much more rapidly than larger ones.

Is it really such a big deal?

This intensifies poverty in the next generation, as average farm sizes shrink.

Symptoms and prognosis can vary widely.

Yet defense spending across Europe remains flat or in decline.

As the war grinds on, prospects for a negotiated solution are diminishing.

The question of food security arises because of the decrease in agricultural lands and the dependency on agriculture.

Here one encounters less collective hope and less individual fear.

Voters heavily punished almost all national governments.

Italian and Spanish rates substantially above 6

This story is fundamentally different from the savings shortage and savings glut hypotheses, and it leads to dramatically different policies.

Though more money is essential, it is not sufficient.

The underlying dynamics have not changed fundamentally since then.

John Paul II changed the process of saint making dramatically.

Adding 400 billion would increase the pool substantially.

In Madagascar, the impact of climate change was even more dramatic.

All sectors of the economy have slowed considerably.

You see it on their faces and their bodies, and they sit in their chair and they make themselves tiny, and they go like this when they raise their hand.

Strengthening them will drastically weaken the UK s influence in the EU.

Today s short term crisis does not materially alter their long term prospects.

Two other developments will greatly aggravate these weaknesses.

That is respectable, but we could do much better.

He said E cigarettes are significantly less harmful than smoking.

It was mostly rebuilt in the 19th century.

In recent decades, the literacy rate of Rajasthan has increased significantly.

At the Martian poles are polar ice caps which shrink in size during the Martian spring and summer.

Sweden has huge differences in earnings, and it narrows the gap through taxation, general welfare state, generous benefits and so on.

Although people and rats fear different things, the manner in which the rat and human brain and body respond to danger is similar.

Since the Industrial Revolution began, human activity has substantially changed the atmosphere s composition.

With few exceptions, the SCAF s members benefited significantly from Mubarak s regime.

These changes have also had a severe impact on Mexico s trade with the US.

Studies of fear in rats have helped us learn much here.

By implementing these commitments, countries will substantially reduce projected future global warming.

Light falls off dramatically the deeper you dive underwater.

It is clear, nonetheless, that investment banking must shrink significantly.

It will also significantly increase the amount of Russian speakers using the World Wide Web.

It has greatly improved compared with what it was.

But the Iranian budget is now running a 15 of GDP deficit, and foreign reserves are shrinking, despite the oil boom.