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And when she is exactly opposite the sun, she shines with a full light, having arrived at the seventh sign; and even while she is there, having advanced but a very little further, she begins to diminish, which we call waning; and as she gets older, she resumes the same shapes that she had while increasing.

The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens Ammianus Marcellinus 1851

Manuel Zelaya, the deposed Honduran president, has complained about what he described as waning condemnation by the US of his removal from office, saying Washington's position on the coup was not clear.

AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE) 2009

The U.S. general said Iraq's political impasse and increasing levels of violence have resulted in waning confidence among Iraqis, who are now less willing to share information about insurgents.

US General: Iraqi Political Vacuum Fuels Violence 2010

The event began with individual qualifying in waning sunlight, with the top 16 men and women qualifying for the knockout stages, which concluded under the lights.

USATODAY.com - Fredriksson, Bjoergen win sprints 2003

As economies in the rest of the world slow, demand for raw materials appears to be waning, which is taking pressure off commodity prices.

Dollar's Rise Could Damp Inflation 2008

Of postmodernism Jameson says ‘the end of the bourgeois ego, or monad, no doubt brings with it the end of the psychopathologies of that ego—what I have called the waning of affect’ Postmodernism, 15 But what would the world look like if, the bourgeois ego having been dissolved, its attendant psychopathologies somehow, spectrally, remained?

Postmodernism Adam Roberts Project 2007

Of postmodernism Jameson says ‘the end of the bourgeois ego, or monad, no doubt brings with it the end of the psychopathologies of that ego—what I have called the waning of affect’ Postmodernism, 15 But what would the world look like if, the bourgeois ego having been dissolved, its attendant psychopathologies somehow, spectrally, remained?

Archive 2007-03-01 Adam Roberts Project 2007

Yet the scene in the dining-room of the Abbey Grange was sufficiently strange to arrest his attention and to recall his waning interest.

The Adventure of the Abbey Grange. 1991

Yet the scene in the dining-room of the Abbey Grange was sufficiently strange to arrest his attention and to recall his waning interest.

Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages Rudyard Kipling 1900

Yet the scene in the dining-room of the Abbey Grange was sufficiently strange to arrest his attention and to recall his waning interest.

The Return of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 1894