All His exhortations, all His efforts to remedy a rapidly deteriorating situation, had remained fruitless.
While the situation was steadily deteriorating in the provinces, the bitter hostility of the people of Shíráz was rapidly moving towards a climax.
Massive international food aid deliveries have allowed the regime to escape mass starvation since 1995, but the population remains the victim of prolonged malnutrition and deteriorating living conditions.
Deteriorating economic conditions during the 1970s led to recurrent violence and a dropoff in tourism.
Fickleness is another evidence of the working of some deteriorating influence, for only a weak mind is fickle.
Among them it was specially characterized by the prevalence of ecstatic visions, often deteriorating into manifestations of nervous affections which superstitious people regarded as exhibitions of miraculous power.
Christian antiquity, called forth by the reproach of the heathens that the repeated successes of the barbarians resulted from the weakening and deterioratinginfluence of Christianity upon the empire.
The barbarous age, however, which saw the overthrow of the Merovingians and the rise of the Carolingians, exerted a deteriorating influence also on the Benedictines.
A long-continued uniform environment is more deteriorating than similarity of blood.
The effect of constant, of lifelong application in such labour cannot but be deteriorating to the mind.
To go still further, there can be no doubt that the absence of any such ruling body, even if ruling only on sufferance, has a deteriorating effect upon the minds of the best-informed and broadest-minded agriculturist.
With such rapidly deteriorating liquid as lime or lemon juice the addition of the preservative spirit is a necessity, hence the sooner it is fortified the better.
From which it would appear that the use of some kind of preservative is essential with such a rapidly deteriorating liquid as lime or lemon juice; and if not alcohol, there are innumerable chemical preservatives available.
The failure of their men in the front line to stand to the death was an irritating exhibition of deteriorating morale, which must be taken into consideration not only by the subordinate but the higher commands.
So rapidly was German morale now deterioratingthat it looked as if the chain, worn by attrition, might snap in a confusion of scattering links.
Every change which may have been wrought in them is deemed a deteriorating innovation, and the sentence of their condemnation unhesitatingly pronounced.
Valuable documents which are torn and perhaps crumbling may be prevented from deteriorating further by sandwiching between two sheets of glass, and binding with passe-partout edging.
Pigments will not have a deteriorating effect on each other as long as they are solid.
This will be sufficiently long in most instances to enable the physician to determine whether he is dealing with a progressive deteriorating psychosis or with one of those transitory prison psychoses.
Bonhoeffer kept account of some of these cases for as long as ten years, and in none of them could he observe any sign of a deteriorating process.
Throughout his sojourn here he was clearly oriented, knew everything that was going on and failed to show the least indication of the existence of a deteriorating process.
For the deteriorating influence which contact with a "higher culture" exercises on savage hospitality, see Nansen, First Crossing of Greenland, ii.
Alcohol exerts a similarly deteriorating influence on the antitoxin-forming organs (especially on the testicles, ovaries and their appendages), to that already described as exerted by the toxins of the contagions and infections.
There is a greater tendency to deteriorating action on the nervous system.
The last are due to the deteriorating influence of alcohol on the generative organs.
Its greatest race-deteriorating effect is in preparing the soil for tuberculosis and other infections and contagions.
As syphilis is more apt to attack the central nervous system than tuberculosis, it would seem that it is a greater race-deteriorating factor.
But for its deteriorating effects on the ovaries and testicles, alcohol would be a most serious social danger.
The race tests of the deterioratinginfluence of alcohol are practically valueless, nor are statistics concerning alcoholism in the ancestry of degenerates of much more use.
Granting all that has been said about the deteriorating effects, especially in degenerates, the source should first be sought here.
Art was deteriorating in the East under the stress of missionaries and merchants.
He had to apply the Eastern principle without deteriorating the Western technique.
Perhaps one ought rather to say trying than deteriorating; for they seem trying to a strong character, deteriorating to a weak one--and unfortunately, Laplace must be classed in this latter category.
From that time his career was one brilliant success, until in the later years of his life his prominence brought him tangibly into contact with the deteriorating influence of politics.
Further experience, however, discovered difficulties in the practical working of this beautiful method, which exercise a deteriorating influence on its value, and lessen its applicability.
There was much illicit distillation and smuggling at this time among the Gaelic-speaking people of the district; and it told upon their character with the usual deteriorating effect.
The deterioratingeffect of the large-farm system, remarked by the poet, is inevitable.
The skin is drawn over a sharp-edged board, which causes these hairs to project, and the rollers placed in the proper position and distance, frees the fur of its deteriorating associates with great facility, without disturbing the fur.
Fire, which, until lately, ran over 5 or 6 million acres annually, and ruthless cutting, have in the past and are still deteriorating the forest area.
