It was during the economic decline in the United States called the Great Depression.

VOA: special.2010.03.14

The report says spending remains flat or in decline in the local economy.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

The United States and others have placed economic and other sanctions on the Mugabe government, whose land appropriation policies coincided with a massive decline in the economy.

VOA: standard.2009.11.08

In the report, called "Heads in the Sand", the group says a serious decline in the supply of oil coupled with increasing demand and few new projects planned, means the world needs to move away from oil.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

Professor Jones had used the words "trick" and "hide the decline" in relation to a graph showing temperature decreases.

VOA: special.2010.04.27

In the e-mail, he used the words "trick" and "hide the decline" when writing about a graph showing rising temperatures.

VOA: special.2010.01.19

During this time the United States was in an economic decline known as the Great Depression.

VOA: special.2010.05.02

"Certainly the good news is that the rate of deaths of children under five years of age continued to decline in two thousand eight.

VOA: special.2009.09.28

"The expected decline in world hunger in two thousand ten is primarily the result of better access to food as the global economy recovers, and food prices remain below their peak level of mid-two thousand eight."

VOA: special.2010.09.21

There has been good news in recent weeks for investors who watched stock markets decline sharply amid the global financial crisis.

VOA: standard.2009.10.16

Nwanze says the decline was as much as a third in Africa and two-thirds in Asia and Latin America.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

Global Witness says trends in the number and average size of oil discoveries has been in decline since 1965.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

(SAYING:mortality rates in the United States) About 40 percent of the decrease for men resulted from the decline in lung cancer death.

VOA: standard.2010.03.25

Mr.Medvedev told a meeting of government ministers in Moscow the global economic crisis has caused a sharp decline in Russian federal revenues.

VOA: standard.2009.05.25

It led to a rapid decline in foreign direct investment in Georgia and a rapid decline in growth, reinforced,of course, by the economic crisis.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

Some believe that population is stable in contrast to the eastern portion of the stock which is continuing to decline at probably lower population levels."

VOA: standard.2010.03.04

But PNC Financial Services senior economist Stuart Hoffman agrees with the president that last week's decline in applications does not yet mean substantial job growth.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

In fact, the decline has been remarkably consistent. This month we lost 663,000 jobs.

VOA: standard.2009.04.03

But the Roof Ballroom began a long, sad decline during World War Two, when it seemed that all the men in town were off fighting the war.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25