`` Mr. Wolfe had been in declining health for many years and death was not unexpected ''.

This may have been due in part to his declining health, but perhaps also because of the time he gave to the preparation of his theoretical works on geometry and perspective, the proportions of men and horses, and fortification.

Riding a wave of international popularity, and despite his declining health, he travelled to the United States in 1965 for an exhibition of his works at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

This incarnation of the journal ceased publication after its tenth year, in 1883, giving as an explanation Hendricks ' declining health, but Hendricks made arrangements to have it taken over by new management, and it was continued from March 1884 as the Annals of Mathematics.

On November 13, 1977, Capp retired with an apology to his fans for the recently declining quality of the strip, which he said had been the best he could manage due to declining health.

During grand jury testimony in December 2003 – which was illegally leaked to the San Francisco Chronicle and published in December 2004 – Giambi allegedly admitted to using many different steroids, including fertility drugs ( which could account for his declining health in the past few years ).

In 1729 declining health obliged him to resign the chairs of chemistry and botany ; and he died, after a lingering and painful illness, at Leiden.

Derby's health had been declining for some time and he finally resigned as Prime Minister in late February 1868 ; he would live for twenty months.

However, due to Bixby's declining health, all such projects were canceled.

Chernenko never succeeded in becoming a " real " leader during his tenure in office because of his declining health

Along with the disappointing season, the principal owner and man who moved the team to Indianapolis, Robert Irsay, died in January 1997 after years of declining health.

Nehru's health began declining steadily after 1962, and he spent months recuperating in Kashmir through 1963.

In 1974, Weissmuller broke both his hip and leg, marking the beginning of years of declining health.

Arkady Volsky, an aide to Andropov and other general secretaries, recounts an episode that occurred after a Politburo meeting on the day following Andropov's demise: As Politburo members filed out of the conference hall, either Andrei Gromyko or ( in later accounts ) Dmitriy Ustinov is said to have put his arm round Nikolai Tikhonov's shoulders and said: " It's okay, Kostya is an agreeable guy ( pokladisty muzhik ), one can do business with him ...." The Politburo failed to pass the decision for Gorbachev, who was nominally Chernenko's second in command, to run the meetings of the Politburo itself in the absence of Chernenko ; the latter due to his declining health, began to miss those meetings with increasing frequency.

In 1956 Mervyn and Maeve visited Spain, financed by a friend who hoped that Peake's health, which was already declining, would be improved by the holiday.

The health of the Murray River has declined significantly since European settlement, particularly due to river regulation, and much of its aquatic life including native fish are now declining, rare or endangered.

In declining health, Louis VII had him crowned and anointed at Rheims by the Archbishop William Whitehands on 1 November in 1179.

A continuing story, it features the declining health of Yamato's Captain Okita ( Avatar in the Star Blazers dub ), and the transformation of the brash young orphan Susumu Kodai ( Derek Wildstar ) into a mature officer, as well as his budding romance with female crewmember Yuki Mori ( Nova ).

Despite his rapidly declining health, Roosevelt remained active to the end of his life.

According to the Worldwatch Institute, " Massive reductions in meat consumption in industrial nations will ease their health care burden while improving public health ; declining livestock herds will take pressure off rangelands and grainlands, allowing the agricultural resource base to rejuvenate.

Harding's physical health had been declining since the fall of 1922.

President James K. Polk, having achieved all of his major objectives in one term and suffering from declining health that would take his life less than four months after leaving office, kept his promise not to seek re-election.

The fight over the vice presidential nomination proved to be historic, as FDR's declining health led to his death in April 1945, and Truman thus became the nation's 33rd President instead of Wallace.

He was a loud-voiced man, once vigorous but for many years now declining in strength and ability.

Its purpose was to find ways of offsetting the United States' declining balance of trade for 1958 and 1959.

The Mughal power in northern India had been declining since the reign of Aurangzeb, who died in 1707 ; In 1751-52, Ahamdiya treaty was signed between the Marathas and Mughals, when Balaji Bajirao was the Peshwa.

It was at this time that a degree of Conservative opposition recovered at the expense of the declining Liberal Party.

This court decision resulted from a complaint by the Government of Prince Edward Island after that province's number of MPs was proposed to change from 4 to 3, accounting for its declining proportion of the national population at that time.

Production was declining by the mid-1980s, so mining of the sulfide zone of the gold ore body was commenced, requiring more extensive processing facilities than had previously existed.

Davenport has a declining crime rate and a low rate of unemployment, and was ranked as the most affordable metropolitan area in 2010 by Forbes.

The possibility of monarchy declining morally, overturning natural law, and degenerating into a tyranny oppressive of the general welfare was answered theologically with the Catholic concept of extra-legal tyrannicide, ideally ratified by the pope.

Anne had been pledged to Philip Sidney two years earlier, but after a year of negotiations Sidney's father, Sir Henry, was declining in favor with the queen and Cecil suspected financial difficulties.

Even by the standards of the rapidly declining Western Empire, Honorius ' reign was precarious and chaotic.

Reportedly, 40, 000 Goths were brought by Constantine to defend Constantinople in his later reign, and the Palace Guard was mostly composed of Germans, as the quality of the native Romans troops kept declining.

The language was in decline by the mid-6th century, due in part to the military defeat of the Goths at the hands of the Franks, the elimination of the Goths in Italy, and geographic isolation ( in Spain the Gothic language lost its last and probably already declining function as a church language when the Visigoths converted to Catholicism in 589 ).

The Glenn discovery came when Gulf Coast production was declining rapidly, and the operators were eager for new areas to drill.

The chain was quickly expanded to 65 stores in Ontario, and closed in 1982 due to declining sales.

In 203 BC, after nearly fifteen years of fighting in Italy, and with the military fortunes of Carthage rapidly declining, Hannibal was recalled to Carthage to direct the defense of his native country against a Roman invasion under Scipio Africanus.

By the middle of the 14th century, the power of the Mongols was declining, and the Grand Princes felt able to openly oppose the Mongol yoke.

The rod of Asclepius was adopted by most Western doctors as a badge of their profession, but in several medical organizations of the United States, the caduceus took its place since the eighteenth century, although this use is declining.

Babylonians spoke the Akkadian language, and retained the Sumerian language for religious use, which by Hammurabi's time was declining as a spoken language.

The sugar crop was declining in importance in the late 19th century and the colony diversified into bananas.