With their often complex reproductive needs and permeable skins, amphibians are often ecological indicators and in recent decades there has been a dramatic decline in amphibian populations of many species around the globe.

With the beginning of the slow decline of the Ottoman Empire in the early 19th century, and as a result of the expansionist policies of Czarist Russia in the Caucasus, many Muslim nations and groups in that region, mainly Circassians, Tatars, Azeris, Lezgis, Chechens, and several Turkic groups left their ancestral homelands and settled in Anatolia.

* " With feeling profound concern, grief, indignation, am compelled disclose Bahá ' í world recent developments Holy Land furnishing further incontestable proof relationship established old and new Covenant-breakers demonstrating increasing boldness, marked, tragic decline in character and spiritual condition grandchildren ` Abdu ' l-Bahá.

With the decline of heavy manufacturing, Dayton's businesses have diversified into a service economy that includes insurance and legal sectors as well as healthcare and government sectors.

With the decline of sophisticated styles at the end of the baroque period, the fugue's central role waned, eventually giving way as sonata form and the symphony orchestra rose to a dominant position.

With the decline of the fur trade, the company evolved into a mercantile business selling vital goods to settlers in the Canadian West.

With the decline of the Chalukya empire, their feudatories, the Hoysalas of Halebidu, Kakatiyas of Warangal, Seuna Yadavas of Devagiri, and a southern branch of the Kalachuri, divided the vast Chalukya empire amongst themselves around the middle of 12th century.

With the decline of large herbivores by the late ice age, Pachycrocuta was replaced by the smaller Crocuta.

With the decline of grasslands 12, 500 years ago, Europe experienced a massive loss of lowland habitats favoured by spotted hyenas, and a corresponding increase in mixed woodlands.

With the rapid Arctic sea ice decline in the Hudson Strait, their range now extends deep into the northwest Atlantic.

With the era of rap metal on the decline, Kid Rock included several southern rock and country ballads on the album.

With the rise of the Roman Empire and the decline of the Seleucids, the area was conquered by the Roman Empire in 63 BC.

With the decline of Portuguese power, especially during the period when the crown of Portugal was combined with the crown of Spain ( 1580 – 1640 ), the Portuguese coastal settlements were ignored and fell into a ruinous condition.

With the decline of Nri kingdom in the 1400-1600 AD, several states once under their influence, became powerful economic oracular oligarchies and large commercial states that dominated Igboland.

With the loss of the theater chain, Paramount Pictures went into a decline, cutting studio-backed production, releasing its contract players, and making production deals with independents.

With the very sharp decline in world trade after 1929, its condition became critical.

With the gradual decline of the use of these local Slavic tongues, the term Wends slowly disappeared, too.

With the increase popularity of the MP3 players, it was the CD ( compact disc ) player that originally caused the decline of the Walkman.

With this new connotation, opéra comique had dominated the French operatic stage since the decline of tragédie lyrique.

With the decline of the Roman Empire, distinctions appeared also in organization, since the bishops in the West were not dependent on the Emperor in Constantinople and did not come under the influence of the Caesaropapism in the Eastern Church.

With the rising popularity of television news, the business of UPI began to decline as the circulation of afternoon newspapers, its chief client category, began to fall.

With the decline of the Holy Roman emperors ' power starting in the 13th century, the Low Countries were largely left to their own devices.

With the decline of the Ottoman Empire after 1700, signs of revival started to emerge.

With the increased use of personal computers and the relative decline in societal awareness of heavy machinery, the term user interface is generally assumed to mean the graphical user interface, while industrial control panel and machinery control design discussions more commonly refer to human-machine interfaces.

With Mao's health on the decline, it was clear that Jiang Qing had political ambitions of her own.

With the expansion of the British Empire, and hence the growth of Anglicanism outside Great Britain and Ireland, the Communion sought to establish new vehicles of unity.

* 1930 – Gandhi raises a lump of mud and salt and declares, " With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire.

With the House undecided on whether to mobilize for military action against the encroaching British military force, Henry argued in favor of mobilization.

With the announcement of the 2013 schedule and home nation tours to other countries in non-Lions Tour years, it looks extremely unlikely that the British and Irish Lions will have the opportunity to tour Argentina before the 2017 tour of New Zealand.

With the assistance of John Nash and David Heller, both British members of the Borland Board, the company was taken public on London's Unlisted Securities Market ( USM ) in 1986.

With many traditional domestic Liberal policies now regarded as irrelevant, he focused the party on opposition to both the rise of Fascism in Europe and the appeasement foreign policy of the British government, arguing that intervention was needed, in contrast to the Labour calls for pacifism.

With the French vanguard now heavily outnumbered, the following British ships HMS Bellerophon and HMS Majestic passed by the melee and advanced on the so far unengaged French centre.

With most of the strategic reserve sent to the Western Front, an Egyptian Expeditionary Force of two British infantry and one Australian and New Zealand mounted division in Eastern Force, successfully defend the Suez Canal and Romani in 1916 from German and Ottoman incursions.

With British colonial expansion from the seventeenth century onwards, the Anglican Church was planted across the globe.

With the British paying higher prices, they were significantly undermining Dutch aims for a monopoly.

With the abolishment of slavery altogether in their colonies, the British forced Spain to sign another treaty in 1835.

With this letter, Dost Mohammad formally set the stage for British intervention in Afghanistan.

With British forces occupying much of the country, Sher Ali's son and successor, Mohammad Yaqub Khan, signed the Treaty of Gandamak in May 1879 to prevent a British invasion of the rest of the country.

With the advent of the New Dawn promotion, three additional servers were set up and maintained by Ubisoft: Venril Sathir ( British ), Sebilis ( French ) and Kael Drakkal ( German ).

With the British enforcing quotas and the situation in Europe increasingly desperate, Jews were forced to resort to illegal immigration.

With war in Europe increasingly likely, the British tried to placate the Arab population of Palestine.

With the cessation of hostilities, Alexander was under serious consideration for appointment to the post of Chief of the Imperial General Staff, the British army's most senior position beneath the sovereign, but he was invited by Canadian prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King to be his recommendation to the King for the post of Governor General of Canada.

With an eye toward the Transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong from the British in 1997, authorities in China sought Pei's aid on a new tower for the local branch of the Bank of China.

With the outbreak of World War I, Whale enlisted in the British Army and became an officer.

With the collapse of Russia, the position of the Tripartite Powers in the world will be so gigantic that the question of the collapse of England, that is, the absolute annihilation of the British Isles, will only be a question of time.

With threats of an armed uprising against the Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss ( he was assassinated by Nazis the following year ) and the killing of over 1, 000 civilians by troops, Philby's British passport became still more valuable.

With Congress now behind him in 1920, Gandhi had the base to employ non-cooperation, non-violence and peaceful resistance as his " weapons " in the struggle against the British Raj.

With writer Tom Pocock he was among the first British civilians to witness the horrors of the Nazi concentration camp at Belsen, where the remaining prisoners, too sick to be moved, were dying before his very eyes.

With respect to its colonies, British mercantilism meant that the government and the merchants became partners with the goal of increasing political power and private wealth, to the exclusion of other empires.