For France, another chunk of la Francophonie - of French influence in the world - was disappearing beneath the unstoppable advance of the Anglo-Saxons.

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Just as I see the firewalls in a company go away, the idea that there is some wall between your company and the rest of the world is slowly disappearing.

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The Garifuna culture and traditions were disappearing with the eldest of the country, and the assimilation to the modern world drove the Garifuna to abandon the traditions that Palacio had just discovered.

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Countless fisheries are disappearing, as are most coral reefs throughout the world.

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Thanks, for the most part, to human mismanagement, one of the world's largest lakes is simply disappearing.

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But once I started reading the novel it became apparent that Fellowes was writing about much more than the provincial world of upper class Brits clinging to rapidly disappearing social importance.

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He began to write a novel, set during Brazil's hosting of the World Cup in 2014, in which public money was yet again disappearing into private pockets, and white-elephant stadiums were rising across the land.

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During this last decade, Nokia was slowly disappearing from the U. S. market even as it dominated global phone sales with the largest world market share.

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Jaime Arias, the Kankuamos' elected governor, says that their world has been out of joint ever since the Spaniards came and the sacred sites began disappearing.

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