The government's green principles also tend to wither in the face of public opposition.
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They are recognising the importance of literacy and we are allowing ours to wither.
Moreover, the new regional truces are tactical, and likely to wither as old animosities resurface.
He accused them of allowing progress that had been achieved under the technocratic government of Mario Monti to wither.
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We can either build up and deter war, or we can allow our forces to wither and risk conflict.
Now, without investment and the opportunity to change, they are in danger of being allowed to wither and die.
The agendas have been flimsy - it seems that both sides are happy for it to wither on the vine.
If the Wahid camp cannot rally sufficient support in the next three months, its rebellion is likely to wither rapidly.
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Mulally's got it half right: It's a crime that Ford allowed what was once America's best-selling car to wither on the vine.
Despite the dollar's collapse, GM's U.S. market share has continued to wither, falling from 41% in 1985 to less than 25% today.
New movements hoping to inject life into politics and public discourse have sprung up in the past year, only to wither within months.
But it may decide case by case to move some of its research abroad, leaving its investment in Britain to wither on the vine.
" She sarcastically characterized Patton's argument thus: "Touching the flesh of an older woman will actually cause a man to wither and disintegrate into dust.
By the 1970s, he had landed in upstate New York, where so many Utopian projects have sprouted over the years, only to wither on the vine.
Dealers are now focusing on 1.24 (this morning) and 1.25 as the next legitimate option target barrier, despite the EUR outright trying to wither against the USD.
Mr Bush has been far more willing to spend his political capital on tax cuts than on faith-based initiatives (which have been allowed to wither on the vine).
Junkies and coke fiends are no exception, but those dreams tend to wither when they are confounded by a life of poor choices and the powerlessness of addiction.
In much of Africa, the main consequence of communism's end has been a new indifference among outsiders, and an ensuing freedom for states to wither or flourish independently.
Meanwhile, entrepreneurial vigour has sprung up around the moribund state sector, which can be left to wither on the vine or be cut back gradually by China's enlightened leaders.
Golf A great year for veteran Mark O'Meara with two majors, while a new star bloomed on the British golf scene in young Justin Rose only to wither in the autumn.
If Title VI and Fulbright-Hays are allowed to wither for lack of funding, there will be fewer culturally and linguistically fluent graduates to staff our intelligence community, our businesses and our government.
That was why his presence had to wither and almost disappear from global consciousness after September 11, and why when he died there would be almost no one anywhere to lament him.
During that time, the countervailing institutions of the new state tend to wither in their infancy, constitutions are swept aside and the civil service is politicized as lines blur between government and party.
The easy gains to be made from oil have led to a catastrophic over-reliance on the black stuff to provide the country's wealth, while successive governments have left the rest of the economy to wither and decay.
Stark and majestic in steel and poured concrete, sitting on a solitary bluff overlooking the Gulf, it is not the house you'd imagine for a retired couple, but they didn't move south to wither in the sun and die.
According to research provided by Bloomberg and IDC, Waterloo's Canadian prospects are dimming, as that chunk of revenue, which amounts to about seven percent of its total earnings, has begun to wither, putting the company in second place behind Apple.
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"If you are a libertarian and you think that taxation equals theft, then you don't care much about this question because the answer you will get is, 'Well let's not get taxed and let's allow the various states to wither, '" he says.
The intriguing thing is that the economic crisis and Brown's lining up with Obama, who has proclaimed his belief in the enduring "special relationship" with Britain, has revived the Franco-German alliance which used to dominate EU affairs and which had seemed to wither under Merkel and Sarkozy.
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