In 2010, the volume of US assistance to Armenia remained near 2009 levels ; however, longer-term decline continued.

However, despite a push for new antibiotic therapies there has been a continued decline in the number of newly approved drugs.

Despite his decision to decline the award, the Soviet Union of Writers continued to denounce Pasternak in the State owned press.

Throughout the 1950s, he struggled with poor health and tenuous finances, but continued to perform frequently despite the decline in popularity of his earlier music as rock and roll took over.

The 15th to the 19th centuries were a period of continued decline and territorial loss.

Eventually, the use of horse-mounted cavalry would decline, but carbines continued to be issued and used by many who preferred a lighter, more compact weapon even at the cost of reduced long-range accuracy and power.

" Jupp points out that, " decline in English influences on Australian reformism and radicalism, and appropriation of the symbols of Empire by conservatives continued under the Liberal Party leadership of Sir Robert Menzies, which lasted until 1966.

Central control of Japan had continued to decline, and the Fujiwara, along with other great families and religious foundations, acquired ever larger shōen and greater wealth during the early tenth century.

Orwell's health had continued to decline since the diagnosis of tuberculosis in December 1947.

This led to a further decline in his output around 1762, however, he was still capable of composing music of highest quality, and continued to write until his death on the evening of 25 June 1767.

The Seleucid kingdom continued to decline and its remaining provinces were annexed by the Roman Republic in 64 BC as Iudaea Province.

Mirroring the long downward trend in the popularity of variety shows in general that had taken place in the 1970s, ratings began to decline for Hee Haw by the mid-1980s, a trend that continued into the early 1990s.

Despite the attempt to keep the show fresh, the changes alienated many of its longtime viewers while failing to gain the hoped-for younger viewers, and the ratings continued their decline.

Under Jean-Claude Duvalier, Haiti's economic and political condition continued to decline, although some of the more fearsome elements of his father's regime were abolished.

As late as 1987, livestock composed 16 percent of the value-added agricultural sector but the industry continued to decline.

Calls for greater government assistance increased as the U. S. economy continued to decline.

The financial markets posed problems for established borrowers and even more for Tengzhong, a little-known company from western China, at the same time as the potential value of the Hummer brand continued to decline given high fuel prices and weak consumer demand.

The famine was by far the most significant turning point in the demographics of the country, as not only did Ireland's population not grow for the next century, it continued a slow decline, the result of which is that the Republic of Ireland has a significantly smaller population today than would be expected for a European country of its size.

Signs of racial discrimination in professional sports continued to decline over the latter half of the twentieth century.

The decline continued under Umar's sons, and in 1893 Rabih az-Zubayr, leading an invading army from eastern Sudan, conquered Bornu.

As the city's population continued to grow, the inner city also continued to decline.

After gradual decline of its strength, Phoenician city states on the Lebanese coast were conquered outright by the Achaemenid dynasty of Persia, which organized it as a satrapy, though many of Phoenician colonies continued their independent existence-most notably Carthage.

After the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the onset of the Early Middle Ages, the Greek tradition of medicine went into decline in Western Europe, although it continued uninterrupted in the Eastern Roman ( Byzantine ) Empire.

Especially in the Middle East, eremitic monasticism continued to be common until the decline of Syriac Christianity in the late Middle Ages.

Newer present-day world religions established themselves throughout Eurasia during the Middle Ages by: Christianization of the Western world ; Buddhist missions to East Asia ; the decline of Buddhism in the Indian subcontinent ; and the spread of Islam throughout the Middle East, Central Asia, North Africa and parts of Europe and India.

With the death of Hayam Wuruk and the coming of Islam to Indonesia, Majapahit went into decline.

Evidence suggest Borobudur was constructed in the 9th century and abandoned following the 14th century decline of Buddhist and Hindu kingdoms in Java, and the Javanese conversion to Islam.

David Keys ' book speculates that the climate changes may have contributed to various developments, such as the emergence of the Plague of Justinian, the decline of the Avars, the migration of Mongolian tribes towards the West, the end of the Persian Empire, the rise of Islam, and the fall of Teotihuacán.

The Arabs, on the other hand, had deviated from true Islam and thus suffered decline.

This is however interpreted in very many ways: socialism and Marxism as a guide to adapting Islam to the modern world was in decline by the 1980s as the USSR invaded Afghanistan and polarized attitudes against Communism and other secular variants of socialism.

Ultimately, the seventh ruler of the Ilkhanate dynasty, Mahmud Ghazan, converted to Islam from Tengrism, and thus began the gradual trend of the decline of Tengrism and Buddhism in the region and renaissance of Islam.

When the Normans and later the House of Anjou lost control of the Island to Peter of Aragon, Islam began to decline.

However, the Geschichte des Osmanischen Reiches postulated that the Ottoman decline was irreversible, citing uncompromising Islam as one of the causes, and playing down the cohesive action of Ottomanism.

Grape growing was a significant economic activity in the Middle east up to the 7th century, when the expansion of Islam caused it to decline.

In Boustani ’ s case he looked to the scientific revolution in the Golden Age of Islam under the Abbasid Caliphate in Baghdad ( 8th to 13th century A. D .) He argued that at that time, Europe was in the decline of the Dark Ages and that Arabs must once again reclaim that heritage.

His chief books are A Life of Mahomet and History of Islam to the Era of the Hegira ; Annals of the Early Caliphate ; The Caliphate: Its rise, decline and fall, an abridgment and continuation of the Annals, which brings the record down to the fall of the caliphate on the onset of the Mongols ; The Koran: its Composition and Teaching ; and The Mohammedan Controversy, a reprint of five essays published at intervals between 1885 and 1887.

The Arab conquest of Persia ( Tajāvoz-e Arāb " the attack of the Arabs " or zohur-e eslâm " the dawn of Islam ", led to the end of the Sassanid Empire in 644, the fall of Sassanid dynasty in 651 and the eventual decline of the Zoroastrian religion in Iran.

Islam caused the decline in importance of marga, with many Mandailing abandoning their marga in favour of Muslim names, much less so among the Angkola to their North.

Five years later, he published " Islam and Capitalism ", a study of the economic decline of Muslims society.

The Ottoman takeover in the 16th century, missionaries such as Sufi preachers and the pressure from the Adyghe tribes ( most of whom had converted to Islam ) from the North precipitated the decline of Christianity and the region became largely Muslim until the 1860s when muhajirism left Christians in majority.

The Silk Road transmission of Buddhism began to decline around the 7th century with the rise of Islam in Central Asia.

After the Second World War the major religions began to decline, while a new religion, Islam, began to increase in numbers.

Isa will decline with the words, " The virtue of this nation that follows Islam is that they lead each other.