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When we look back a decade from now, that’ll be the moment where Russia’s economy went from one that was opening up, and it was growing and becoming more European, and where Russia’s economy started to deteriorate and started the slow decline that will make it look more like Iran’s economy a decade from now.

Wally Adeyemo

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Typically, in good times, the workweek tends to be somewhere between 34.3 and 34.6 hours on average, and somehow it’s slowed all the way down to the bottom end of that range, if it continues to deteriorate, that would suggest weakening demand for labor.

Julia Pollak

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The last two years have seen law and order deteriorate across our country. Public safety has eroded. Violent crimes like murders and carjackings are breaking records. And our southern border has turned into a turnstile, we have seen the violence and chaos firsthand in Kentucky, especially in my hometown of Louisville. But we aren’t alone. This is a nationwide phenomenon on Democrats’ watch.

Mitch McConnell

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We have a great country where people don't realize is that this progressive prosecutor movement has affected a lot of different areas of the United States, and so what happens is that, you know, it really can deteriorate our great country by allowing people to terrorize or hurt innocent people.

Los Angeles

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Slowly watching her deteriorate like that, like her muscles, she would start shaking, and she had a hard time sitting up, and she couldn't hold her head up, and just watching her go through that was like,' this is not my kid,' like, am I ever even going to get her back ?

Baelyn Schwab

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I would just sit out on the porch and watch their yard, where the girls used to play, the yard began to deteriorate, and the weeds grew up. The house also deteriorated. There was just a real sense of sadness. Many people in the town would leave things on the porch and cry. And then so many people started to drive by the house and just look or take pictures. One time, I even heard somebody call Shanann’s name. I looked out and there was a man in a car yelling out for her several times. This was over a year later. But for whatever reason, he thought Chris Watts was still held up in the house or something.

Vonda Knox

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We are just starting the investigations, it's not a common case. We need to trace how he acquired those items, from who and where. And now we have a problem on how to store it, since it can deteriorate or be stolen.

Janeiro Police Chief Luis Armond

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Fresh attempts to expose Russian ‘red line’ deterrence as hollow – whether on the ground, in the air, or at sea – would push Moscow to defend what it cannot give up without losing its self-respect, this would almost inevitably lead to clashes and casualties, which would carry the risk of further escalation. Should this happen, Russia-NATO confrontation would deteriorate literally to the point of brinkmanship, a truly bleak scenario.

Dmitri Trenin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

My question is -- what is the holdup ? It's been six months since the conflict started. The atrocities are continuing and the humanitarian situation continues to deteriorate.

Michael McCaul

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We still live in a world where market structures are relatively weak, liquidity - transactional liquidity - can deteriorate very quickly.

Chief Investment Officer Dan Ivascyn

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Sharlene Miller, Sharlene Miller, told the BBC. Millerdeveloped pneumonia and his condition grew worse.His kidneys also began to fail and he developed blood clots. In the week between Normas funeral and her partners funeral, each day Scott seemed to deteriorate and they were running out of options. We were at the point where we were maybe going to have to make a decision about turning off his life support, Sharlene Miller said, per the BBC. The same staff that helped Sharlene Miller also were with his mother during her last days. MAINE HOSPITAL SEES CORONAVIRUS RESURGENCE AFTER VISITORS LEARN OF POSITIVE TEST RESULTS WHILE ON TRIP The staff in the hospital were absolutely amazing, two or three of the nurses who treated me were with my mum when she passed away. Every part of the NHS was amazing. Sharlene Miller warns people to be vigilant against the virus and not becomplacent.

Sharlene Miller

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

If the U.S. continues to retreat from its role in the organization and allows China to expand its power there, Chinas position as a global leader will inevitably be enhanced regardless of its respect for human rights, most of all, this threatens to deteriorate any power that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights still holds in the world.

Sean Roberts

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We don't know exactly why the PM has gone to hospital except we have been told he is having tests, many people attending hospital with COVID-19 have difficulty breathing. Some people are rapidly discharged. Some others can quickly deteriorate and need help breathing. We have no reason to believe the PM needs such help.

Derek Hill

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The situation on the ground remains deeply troubling. The truce is holding only by a thread... the economic situation continues to deteriorate.

Libya Stephanie Williams

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The macroeconomic and geopolitical concerns are showing signs of easing recently, but we can't rule out the possibility that the situation would deteriorate.

Han Jin-man

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

They seem to making progress, but we have seen in the past that everything seems to look great and then a couple of days later seems to deteriorate again.

Jeremy Gatto

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Almost all protesters wear masks, with the intention of hiding their identity. That's why they have become more unbridled, we can't keep the existing regulations idle and let violence escalate and the situation continue to deteriorate.

Carrie Lam

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The PBOC has not yet signaled its bottom line for the yuan, and given the United States is holding its presidential election next year, the situation is unlikely to deteriorate too much as that could trigger a backfire.

Ken Cheung

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

If border economies further deteriorate without the creation of alternative livelihoods, further protests in border regions are certain, as we have seen repeatedly in the past few years, they are drawing on a rich and serious legacy of local grievances. It's important to take them seriously.

Max Gallien

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Despite the expected improvement in global economic growth, if economic slowdowns in major economies feed into other economies, the prospects for growth might deteriorate, bringing uncertainty across the entire global economy.

Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Conditions will continue to deteriorate the rest of the afternoon and overnight, this is a very potent storm.

Dan Effertz

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Once again the halls of Congress reverberate with odes to rugged individualism, state sovereignty, and contempt for the centralized super-state, these are bloodless battles Jefferson Davis could never fight but, they are no less vital for the future of American civilization. As our cities decay and our standards and spiritual traditions deteriorate, America is searching for a better way. Walker Percy urged us to look South to recover community, stability, and sense of place in God's order which we have regrettably lost. That is a tall proposition but it is certainly one Jefferson Davis would understand and certainly one for which Jefferson Davis would fight.

Secretary Wilkie

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Local produce has less time to deteriorate and lose nutrients compared with conventional produce.

Libby Mills

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Migrants returned by the coast guard should not automatically be transferred to detention and we are deeply concerned that the detention centers will yet again be overcrowded and that living conditions will deteriorate with the recent influx of migrants.

Mission Othman Belbeisi

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

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