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.

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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 diversity of religious viewpoints, there are differences of opinion as to the essential features of religion ; ;

With theological insight, he interpreted the use of pictorial and symbolical representation in J. S. Bach's religious music.

With the increase of wealth and power, abbots had lost much of their special religious character, and become great lords, chiefly distinguished from lay lords by celibacy.

" With the latter definition, Confucianism is religious, even if non-theistic, in the sense that it " performs some of the basic psycho-social functions of full-fledged religions ", in the same way that non-theistic ideologies like Communism do.

With the swift rise of Islamism and religious groups such as Hamas in the 1980s, the DFLP faded among the Palestinian youth, and internal confusion over the future path of the organization paralysed political decision-making.

With regards to the emperor himself as a religious figure, both Suetonius and Cassius Dio allege that Domitian officially gave himself the title of Dominus et Deus.

With the onset of the dechristianisation campaign the Republic silenced these bells and sought simultaneously to silence the religious fervor of the majority Catholic population.

With the existence of modern independent states, each with its own legislative system, or its own body of ulamas, each country develops and applies its own rules, based on its own interpretation of religious prescriptions.

With the notable exception of Dunfermline Abbey he is not definitely associated with major religious establishments or ecclesiastical reforms.

With a little help from Suegar, an apparent religious fanatic, and Tris, the leader of the female prisoners, he instills order and hope in the apathetic, distrustful inmates, makes them rehearse for quick embarkation ( disguised as a food distribution procedure ), and stages one of the largest mass breakouts in history.

With the rise of European monarchs in following centuries, rhetoric shifted into the courtly and religious applications.

With few options for religious instruction, some young Muslims have turned to underground Islamic movements.

" With a maxim such as this, it was easy for him to maintain that Elizabeth's — and his — brutal measures were political and not religious.

With many ethnic foreigners traveling to China to conduct trade or live permanently, there came many foreign religions ; religious minorities in China included Middle Eastern Muslims, the Kaifeng Jews, and Persian Manichaeans.

With its origins in the solitary hijiri back in the 7th century, Shugendō evolved as a sort of amalgamation between Esoteric Buddhism, Shinto and several other religious influences including Taoism.

With his brother's death in November 1592, during the era which marked the start of the final chapter ( dated 1648 by some ) of both the Reformation and Counter-reformation, Charles, during the tense political times which prevailed, viewed the inheritance of the throne of Protestant Sweden by his devout Roman Catholic nephew and Habsburg ally, Sigismund of Poland and Sweden, with alarm, and several years of religious controversy and discord followed.

With the accession of Romanos, Theodora prudently retreated back into the gynaeceum, with its daily religious routines, but this did not preserve her from her sister ’ s jealousy.

With the rise of the Zionist movement in the early 20th century, the wall became a source of friction between the Jewish community and the Muslim religious leadership, who were worried that the wall was being used to further Jewish nationalistic claims to the Temple Mount and Jerusalem.

Themes may be no more than handy prefabricated parts for constructing a tale, or they may represent universal truths – ritual-based, religious truths, as James Frazer saw in The Golden Bough, or archetypal, psychological truths, as Joseph Campbell describes in The Hero With a Thousand Faces.

With this attribution, the new office of Emperor was given a religious dignity and the responsibility for the entire Roman state cult.

With financial assistance from the Hanover Jewish community, Herschel was sent to a yeshiva ( rabbinical seminary ) in Frankfurt, where he studied Hebrew and Torah: he was by all accounts more religious than his parents.

" With the establishment of the Babylonian empire, under Hammurabi, early in the 2nd millennium BC, the religious as well as the political centre of influence was transferred to Babylon, Marduk became lord of the pantheon, many of Enlil's attributes were transferred to him, and Ekur, Enlil's temple, was to some extent neglected.

With the 21st and 22nd dynasties, we see a continuation of the religious development initiated by Rameses.

With the religious troubles between Gomarists ( Calvinists ) and Arminians, the struggle between Van Oldenbarnevelt and Maurice reached a climax.

With obtaining town privileges, both the religious and the legal centre were moved.