The so-called "pink tide" that has brought several left-wing leaders to power in Latin America in the past decade is not exactly on the ebb, but the hostility countries such as Brazil, Ecuador and Bolivia felt towards the Bush administration has abated.
The music and lyrics by Kander and Ebb operate on the old-fashioned principle that every song should be a showstopper, regardless of whether the show should be stopped.
On the other hand, some of the initial ebb would be offset by foreign inflows.
On the field and off, Australian sport is arguably at its lowest ebb since the Montreal Olympics in 1976, when the country failed to win a single gold medal - a setback that led to the creation of the much-admired, and much-aped, Australian Institute of Sport.
The NFL is counting on the NFLPA solidarity of March and April to ebb in June and July largely because of concern about finances.
By now the encounter had developed an intoxicating ebb and flow, Tottenham dominating possession but West Ham looking dangerous on the counter-attack.
It should provide a prime opportunity for Labour, but the party starts from a very low ebb - last time they won just two of the 98 seats on the council.
Without a second songwriter to spur him on, Mercer is at the mercy of his own ambition, which seems to ebb and flow.
Ebb-tide delta: an accretionary deposit of sand found on the seaward side of an inlet and usually formed by tidal currents.
But after seven years of struggling along on little research projects and moonlighting to keep the company afloat, Moskowitz' zeal was beginning to ebb.
On Tuesday, the space agency released before-and-after pictures of the lunar north pole where Ebb and Flow came to rest.
On Thursday, the Nationwide Building society said that consumer confidence in the UK had fallen to "a low ebb" in December.
The ebb and flow of financial markets used to conjure up images of yelling, jacketed traders on the floor of an exchange.
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Twenty20 cricket does not have the ebb and flow that Test cricket has, when you have to think a bit more on your feet.
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