Or a stubborn defence of the existing order that will keep France a middling world power in economic decline?
In all cases, Japanese must adjust to a world in which demographic decline means sheer growth may not always be as easily attainable as it once was.
One country on the opposite side of Africa where that scenario may already have started to play out is Mali, the third poorest nation in the world, where rainfall levels have been in decline for the past 30 years across the semi-arid Sahel region.
Japan's stock market was one of the best-performing in the world early this year, as a decline in the yen fueled sharp gains in exporters of cars, electronics and other products.
Italy, which has one of the largest gold jewelry manufacturing centers in the world, saw demand by tonnage decline by 15 percent in 2012.
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With world growth softening and commodity prices off their peaks, inflation in every region of the world will decline through 2012.
Last year Russian GDP plummeted nearly 8%, driven downward by a 77% decline in world energy prices.
For all the tribulations in our lives, for all the troubles that remain in the world, the decline of violence is an accomplishment that we can savor and an impetus to cherish the forces of civilization and enlightenment that made it possible.
Finance ministers know it is in their interest to try to break the deadlock were the round to collapse altogether the consequences for the global economy could be serious any decline in world trade, for example, would have immediate repercussions on global demand.
Deep-water drilling was supposed to hold off the effects of a decline in world oil production that began in 2005 and is forecast to continue unabated through the rest of this century, just as several billion Chinese and Indians go on an energy consumption spree.
In the developed world, tobacco is a business in steady but terminal decline.
After steady growth in home ownership since World War II in England, it has been in decline since 2003.
Everywhere in the developed world, the decline of mass-production industries has put pressure on the roles and incomes of working-class and middle-class men.
During the course of the story, Kerbouchard sees the Islamic world at its peak, Byzantine in decline, and the small, delicate green shoots of intellectual ferment developing in Paris.
Kaufman argues that the world's religious population is increasing after a century of gradual decline as younger generations in the developing world reject secularization.
Growth in the world economy, increased fossil fuel emissions since 2000 and a decline in the efficiency of the ocean and land 'sinks' to absorb carbon emissions.
Neither player is in a steep decline Nadal is No. 2 in the world, and No. 3-ranked Federer remains potent at 30 but in Australia they are on the same side of the bracket, and if they both advance, they will meet in the semis, an opening act instead of customary headliners.
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Before Fukushima, a "nuclear renaissance" -- as it was termed in the press -- seemed well underway, except for this point: Nuclear power, as a total of world energy supply, has been in steady decline for the past decade.
America, as I found from my visits in the seventies and early eighties, had suffered a terrible decline of confidence in its role in the world.
The speed, flexibility and economy of road transport have caused a precipitous decline in rail freight across the world.
Their paper editions are in decline in most of the developed world, as readers opt for the web versions on their computers and laptops, or on smart-phones such as the iPhone.
Whilst Iraq's football fortunes have improved somewhat since the dark days when Uday Hussein used to torture players for bad performances, Iranian football has been in decline since qualifying for the 2006 World Cup.
Mr Gibson told MSPs the committee would be analysing the Scottish government's consultation on the 2020 Challenge for Scotland's Biodiversity against a back drop of world failure on biodiversity targets and with "biodiversity in decline".
In the annual report of Freedom House, a New York-based lobby group, to be published on April 29th, the ex-communist countries show the biggest relative decline in media freedom in the world, chiefly because of a perceived politicisation of public broadcasting.
There is a general perception of American decline as new powers emerge in the world competition.
Some say the expulsion of these industrious Moors set in motion the decline of Spain as a world power.
The rise of the American meritocracy after World War II coincided with the decline of Northeastern WASPs in America's social hierarchies.
The worst outcome would be for Europe and north Africa, both losing relative weight in the world, to reinforce one another's decline.
The great decline in membership came after the second world war.
This, allied to his dramatic omission from Glenn Hoddle's squad for the 1998 World Cup, only succeeded in speeding up the spiral of decline that finished off his career - and appears today to be putting his life in jeopardy.
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