Its debt burden is considerable, and the country has seen a decline in per capita gross national product over the last 40 years.

Its industrial decline following the Second World War was particularly acute, but in recent decades the country has enjoyed something of a cultural and economic renaissance, fuelled in part by a resurgent financial services sector, the proceeds of North Sea oil and gas, and latterly a devolved parliament.

Its GDP per capita soared by 351 % in the 1970s, and after only a slight decline of 30 % in the 1980s, grew once again by 36 % in the 1990s.

Its decline was due mainly to the reduction of real and psychological differences between country and city brought about by the postwar expansion of the Australian urban population and to the increased affluence and technological changes that accompanied it.

Its decline is clearly shown by its population, which has remained almost constant since the Middle Ages.

Its decline accelerated after the 1982 sale of UPI by the Scripps company.

Its slow decline starting at the end of the fourteenth century followed internal discord and revolts by vassal states, one of which, Songhai, flourished as an empire between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries.

Its popularity began to steadily decline thereafter ; the name fell out of the top 100 after 1977, and out of the top 500 after 2001.

Its growth has been linked to the decline of Mapungubwe from around 1300, due to climatic change or the greater availability of gold in the hinterland of Great Zimbabwe.

Its major industry at the time was woollen cloth, which contributed to Godalming ’ s prosperity over the next few centuries, until a sudden decline in the 17th century.

Its decline is due to loss of habitat, disturbance, predation by foxes, crows, etc., and small populations gradually dying out.

Its inability to compete in the free market led to its decline and in 2000 Svit went bankrupt.

Its decline of 5. 4 % was largely attributed to the decrease in the mining and quarrying subsector, which went down by 15. 4 % due to the reduced production of natural gas in Palawan.

Its aim is to stop the decline of the Iberian lynx and other lynx species.

Its decline was probably owing to the increasing prosperity of the neighbouring city of Tyndaris.

Its mission statement is: " The mission of CWA is to protect and promote Biblical values among all citizens-first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society-thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation.

Its decline in population and trade then contributed to the shift of the power center of the Ethiopian Empire so that it moved further inland and bequeathed its alternative place name ( Ethiopia ) to the region, and eventually, the modern state.

Its use in human medicine is now starting to decline, being replaced with sevoflurane, desflurane and the intravenous anaesthetic propofol.

Its decline from the top echelon of football began with the introduction of professionalism in July 1885, with the amateurs of Sheffield failing to compete with professional teams, losing heavily that year to Aston Villa, Nottingham Forest and Notts County.

Its growth was greatly accelerated by international enthusiasm for the Cultural Revolution in China, but it began to decline in response to controversial Chinese foreign policy decisions in the last years of Mao's life, his death and the subsequent defeat of the Gang of Four.

Its candidate in the presidential elections was Michiaki Nagatani, whose poor performance seems to signal a steep decline in the fortunes of the party.

Its steady decline began in the 16th century, when sea traffic replaced the famous Silk Road.

Its decline as a living language began after the Kalmyk people were deported en masse from their homeland in December 1943, as punishment for limited Kalmyk collaboration with the Nazis.

Its decline, however, was slowed by both an era of relative prosperity in Argentina, as well as milestones such as the inaugural of the Hotel Claridge in 1946, the Torcuato di Tella Institute's Florida Street center in 1963 ( which became a hub of Buenos Aires ' avant-garde and pop art scene during the 1960s ), and the 1971 conversion of the street into a promenade.

Its album Pimp to Eat featured guest appearances by various members of Rhyme Syndicate, Odd Oberheim, Jacky jasper ( who appears as Jacky Jasper on the song " We Sleep Days " and H-Bomb on " War "), D. J.

Its functions are thought to include tasks such as lipid and heme biosynthesis, and it appears to be necessary for survival.

Its development is likely to have been closely connected with the development of human language, which ( whether spoken or written ) appears to both involve and facilitate abstract thinking.

Its basis appears to be the old Roman Creed.

Its binding is Turkish, and appears to be original ; but the paper has an Italian watermark, which has been dated between 1588 and 1620.

Its first documented use in a musical context in New Orleans appears in a November 14, 1916 Times-Picayune article about " jas bands.

Its geographic range appears to be circumglobal in subantarctic waters between latitudes 40 ° S and 60 ° S.

Its use specifically for the Pope appears in the 13th century in connection with the reforms of Pope Innocent III, as can be observed already in his 1199 letter to Leo I, King of Armenia.

Its singular form, heard more often than the plural, appears in books, newspapers, etc.

Gosling Emacs ( often shortened to " Gosmacs " or " gmacs ") was an Emacs implementation written in 1981 by James Gosling in C. Its extension language, Mocklisp, has a syntax that appears similar to Lisp, but Mocklisp does not have lists or any other structured datatypes.

Its subject, the differences between US and European intellect, manners, and morals, is one that frequently appears in the works of Henry James.

He appears in " Inspector Goofy " and " A Goof of Its People ".

Its most noticeable feature is what appears to be its extreme discontinuity, often from note to note: there may be enormous intervals between consecutive notes, and rather than aspiring to the consistency of timbre typical of most guitar-playing, Bailey interrupts it as much as possible: four consecutive notes, for instance, may be played on an open string, a fretted string, via harmonics, and using a nonstandard technique such as scraping the string with the pick or plucking below the bridge.

Its initial organization was effected by a canal company founded in Denver, Colorado, and appears to have been based upon fraud and willful misrepresentations made by the founders to state officials.

Its unknown author, designated the Pearl-Poet or Gawain-Poet, also appears, on the basis of dialect and stylistic evidence, to be the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Cleanness ( all ca.

Its current sense appears to have originated in the Pacific Northwest.

Its first mention in a U. S. government document formally released to the public appears to be a caption in a recent graphic promoting the Reliable Replacement Warhead Program.

Its nucleus is bright and appears starlike in small amateur telescopes.

Its width is unaltered, so the disk appears wider than it is high.

Its first description in the modern academic literature appears to be.

Its characteristic profile appears on the Der Schlern-Zeitschrift für Südtiroler Landeskunde ( Magazine for South Tyrolean Regional Studies ) and the logo pressed into Loacker's wafer biscuits.

Its chief, Paratene Pototi, appears to have been largely responsible for Te Kooti's arrest and exile.

Its name is, however, found in Ptolemy, so that it appears to have still continued to exist in his day.

Its name stems from the old word for " black " (" vran ") in the Serbian language and first appears in the Alexiad ( 9, 4 ) by Byzantine princess and scholar Anna Comnena ( 1083 – 1153 ). In period of Austrian occupation from 1688 to 1692, Vranje was managed by