Voters report ever less interest in elections and their outcome, and ever less confidence that their vote will make any difference.
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The danger is that public transport could become a rump service, ever less popular and ever less good, partly because of its unpopularity.
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As manufacturers rely on ever less stable sources of minerals, as Californian farmers rely on ever less reliable sources of water, the cost of doing business goes up, chocking off demand.
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Marriage seems ever less necessary but also ever more inviolate.
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But the seas off enemy shores look ever less safe.
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As the party congress approaches, its outcome appears ever less certain.
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Things look ever less likely to go beyond the fighting stage.
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These days Britain is becoming ever less dependent on the fuel.
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An excise tax on production and imports makes coal ever less attractive.
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LONDON (Reuters Breakingviews) - Rupert Murdoch's bid for Sky looks ever less rational.
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But in five meetings, there has been ever less to talk about.
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That makes them ever less sensitive to the costs of regional inequality.
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Decisions at this level of refinement become ever less scientific, less medical.
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As you head north, however, it narrows and becomes ever less populated.
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In reality there is growing evidence that markets are becoming ever less so.
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The prospect of clawing their way out of this hole seemed ever less likely.
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Among young Americans, socialism is ever less of a boo word (see chart 22).
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A movement founded to promote tolerance seems to be showing ever less of it.
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The rapid pace of credit growth makes a benign outcome ever less likely, however.
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I felt less embodied than ever, less able to gather myself into one person.
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And if that happens, the Fed will have ever-less room to cut rates.
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German officials' insistence that parts of Afghanistan are safe for deportees sounds ever less plausible.
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But small acts of relief will give ever less comfort as negotiations continue to stall.
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Across the whole population, the chance of early death depends ever less on economic circumstances.
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Such horrors are looking ever less like an anomaly, however, and more like the rule.
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Today, we are ever less apt to base valuations on precedence—who did what first.
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Overreaction is inherent to the existential threat Israel claims, but that is ever less persuasive.
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In mostly agricultural societies, farmers must scratch livings from smaller plots on ever less fertile soils.
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That puts more pressure than ever less on the president's words and more on his actions.
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The problem is that, as things stand, GDP risks serving all its purposes ever-less well.
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Not that she was ever less than supportive, but I was aware of leaning too heavily.
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Trump's utter failure on Capitol Hill provides further evidence that he is making himself ever-less relevant.
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These new personal journals are ever richer in intimate detail, and ever less written by our hands.
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While the Macan feels mostly full-powered at the start, it becomes ever less potent as I ascend.
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And they're right: Today's lowest airfares get you ever less, apart from a safe and (usually) speedy trip.
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Republicans, who don't share Trump's zeal for infrastructure spending, are growing ever-less likely to do him favors.
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That means they have ever less need for a mobile connection, no matter how blazingly fast it may be.
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Exporters grew ever less competitive, and workers and capital shifted from manufacturing to services, where productivity was even lower.
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Even the Gulf States and Turkey, which might have once seemed a potential source of support, appear ever less interested.
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It also made the administration's argument that the Americans were only advising and assisting Iraqi forces seem ever less plausible.
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But many observers worry that Israel's continued settlement building makes the physical reality of a Palestinian state ever less possible. 4.
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Alongside febrile politics, telecoms firms face the search for revenue growth as their bread-and-butter connectivity becomes ever less profitable.
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As for TJX and Ross, one long-term worry, says Mr Gildenberg, is that younger consumers expect ever less expensive clothes.
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Many middle-class folk feel that, having fought their way up, they are being rewarded ever less generously for their efforts.
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American journalists and the public are so focused on our domestic disorder that they pay ever less attention to conflicts abroad.
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While it will remain part of the alliance, Turkey may start fielding ever-less-interoperable weapons, and sharing ever fewer goals.
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LONDON (Reuters) - If ever less really was more, it would appear to be the case at Wimbledon for twice-champion Petra Kvitova.
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But this Cold War-era state of affairs is ever less tenable or fitting, as comfortable as it once may have been.
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But it is a worry, nonetheless, that the logic of competition seems to be ever-bigger clearing-houses with ever less collateral.
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B.J. Democrats, abandoned his campaign after receiving little support in a party that bears ever less resemblance to the New Deal Democrats.
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Budget cut after budget cut have forced us to do ever more with ever less, and it cannot continue on this path.
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FOLDABLE SCREENS Alongside febrile politics, telecoms firms face the search for revenue growth as their bread-and-butter connectivity becomes ever less profitable.
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In other words, although humans are pumping out more CO2 than ever, less of it than you might expect is lingering in the air.
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With ever less ice in the Arctic this is becoming less of a problem, meaning America should be better able to track Russian submarines.
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And since AI becomes ever smarter, it will make sense to allow it to do more and more as we become ever less so.
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Such feats are becoming ever less common, according to a recent paper by Lukas Schneider and Claudius Gros of the Goethe University in Frankfurt.
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The company looks ever less like a MOOC and more like a Netflix-style SVOD (subscription video on demand) platform for educational video series.
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The three oil and gas companies have substantially reduced their indebtedness, while the three big banks have become ever less dependent on external financing.
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A 24.1% decline in sales of ever less-popular passenger cars dragged down what was otherwise a positive quarter for the nation's second-largest automaker.
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The public will become disengaged from the capital component of capitalism, and as a consequence will be ever less likely to support business-friendly government policies.
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Add that to the long list of grievances against a government which still claims, ever less plausibly, to be the only democratic one in Central Asia.
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In the Middle East and Asia in particular, military tensions are on the rise – and major countries seem ever less bothered about taking off the gloves.
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But many observers are concerned that Israel's continued settlement building makes the physical reality of a Palestinian state ever less possible, even as political negotiations remain stalled.
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The titans have avoided each other in their home markets, and rising trade tensions make it ever less likely that a clash will happen there (see article).
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Even those seeking darker escapes are finding them ever less affordable: the price of heroin (mainly smuggled from Afghanistan) has doubled in roubles over the past year.
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But the challenge worldwide grows ever starker as companies attempt to secure audiences who are approaching opera — if they approach it at all — with ever less familiarity.
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And despite the sums spent on large dams, they contributed ever less to India's irrigation as millions of farmers turned, instead, to exploiting groundwater through electrified pumps.
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It became national news, was debated over dinner tables, on talk shows and on social media sites, and reinforced fears that Germany is becoming ever less safe.
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But overhauling public services is costly, and the declining number of people of working age means there is ever less tax revenue to help pay for the shift.
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As the amount of inherited wealth sloshing around the economy increases, those with high salaries but without a family fortune feel ever less like members of the elite.
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" In an interview, he said that during his final months at the network, "I was asked ever less frequently to speak about anything that touched Trump and Russia.
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Over time, however, agriculture has become ever less important as a share of the economy, and the rural population has correspondingly declined as a determinant of urban location.
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The reality is Democrats are debating ever more ambitious policy in a political system ever less capable of passing ambitious policy — and ever more stacked against their policies, in particular.
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A spate of scandals in Europe suggest that prosecutors, as well as the politicians who influence how much freedom judicial investigators enjoy, are becoming ever less tolerant of corporate corruption.
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Technological advances, they say, are ever-less revolutionary: Uber is less of an advance than the car itself, the smartphone has not changed office work the way the PC did.
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As the price of safe bonds rises, rates on those bonds fall close to zero, leaving central banks with ever less room to stimulate their economies when they run into trouble.
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And even with more women in public office than ever, less than 203 percent of all national parliamentarians were women in 2016 -- up less than 2 percent from the mid 90s.
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Add to this obvious abuse of the planet the likelihood that rising temperatures and increasing storm activity will render oil and gas extraction in parts of the world ever less viable.
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A more comprehensive peace agreement with the main insurgent group in 2014 is being implemented without any objection from the Supreme Court, which is ever less inclined to challenge the president.
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Regardless of skin color, the United States looks ever less like a land of opportunity, and more like a place where advantages secured early in life tend to perpetuate themselves for decades.
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On Tuesday, state-owned newspaper China Daily said in an opinion piece that Beijing was "understandably relieved that the exclusive, economically inefficient, politically antagonizing TPP is looking ever less likely to materialize".
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A second problem for the party is that China's middle classes are growing ever less inclined to tolerate the rank state of public toilets, which can be filthy even in big cities.
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"The [established] media and political leaders have ever less influence," says Jaime Durán Barba, an Ecuadorean consultant who helped Mauricio Macri pull off an unexpected victory in Argentina's presidential election in November.
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But at that level, the chances of a successful future sale to foreign investors – which was supposed to be one of the key points of the exercise – will get ever less likely.
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And it put the Kremlin on the back foot, justifying itself with ever-less credible stories, such as the notion that the spooks were there to test IT systems at the Russian embassy.
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Public construction spending as a share of national income has fallen sharply in recent years, reflecting cutbacks by state and local governments that are ever less interested in providing public goods for the future.
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You could say the same of Lynne Ramsay's film, but, when she heightens the volume, she is tensing Joe's world like a piano tuner tautening a string, and making his headspace ever less endurable.
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It's always nice to hear Berlin's "It's a Lovely Day Today," and nothing in "A Bronx Tale," not even its totally pro forma doo-wop establishing number "Belmont Avenue," is ever less than professional.
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He argues that Eurasia's new connectivity in roads, railways, gas pipelines and fibre-optic cables means that the old regional categorisations of, say, Central, East and South Asia have ever less meaning as geopolitical concepts.
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Many pathogens have developed a resistance to our current stock of weaponry, rendering them ever-less effective and in some cases -- such as the so-called "superbug" MRSA, or Staphylococcus aureus -- can be life-threatening.
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In responding to a crisis by simply spreading conspiracy theories, Brazil's far-right leader was simply embracing an alarming global trend, in which truth and reality risk becoming ever less important when it comes to political messaging.
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If the state doesn't take proactive steps to avoid it, its utilities could end up in a doom spiral, with grid power becoming ever less reliable and more expensive for the underclass forced to rely on it.
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The employment plans, along with single-payer "Medicare for all" health care, free college, legalized marijuana and ever less restrictive immigration rules, are parts of a broader trend toward a more liberal Democratic Party in the Trump era.
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Similarly, the more AWS invests in software (more than 1,000 new tools last year), the more enticing it becomes for developers and corporate customers, the more it can invest, which makes companies ever less likely to move their data.
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Though there are still farms in Mingaladon, it is also home to Myanmar's biggest and busiest airport, which is set to get even busier as the ever-less-secluded country assumes its place on the trails of backpackers and adventurous investors.
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In recent weeks American officials had sounded ever less exacting both in their demands and in the timeframe for achieving them, appearing to accept denuclearisation as a long-term goal that would be reached step by step, if at all.
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Most responses I have seen involve condescending and ever-less-patient explanations of why the person in front of you is wrong; public shaming, often on social media, often in ALL CAPS; and gradual escalation into eye-rolling and raised voices.
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But although some of M20153S's ideas have been taken up by other new parties such as Vox in Spain and the Brexit Party in Britain, the idea that it offers a glimpse of the political future looks ever less convincing.
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From allegedly abusive and supposedly shamed photographers reappearing on the shoot circuit, to consistently offensive designers getting endless free passes, and editors protected by their power and an industry-wide silence, we have come to expect ever less from the fashion herd.
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"For all the sound and fury following Trump's decision to move the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, 2018 will likely see America ever less at the heart of events in the region," says Apps of the Middle East.
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We should begin by shifting the useless waste of taxpayer funds in a silly border wall into greater investment into the Alliance for Prosperity, into our law enforcement efforts, and into diplomacy which will ensure ever less corrupt and more responsive governments.
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As outright denial of the scientific evidence becomes ever less credible, a new breed of climate change denier, a kinder, gentler sort of denier, has appeared on the scene to exploit the new niche that is emerging in the world of climate change contrarianism.
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As our shelves and closets are sensored for automatic fulfillment, and our pantries communicate directly with the public larders to keep them perpetually brimming with the bounty of American plenty, there will be ever less reason to leave the comfortable confines of our homes.
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The Kremlin may fool most of its people most of the time, but abroad, its feigned indignation is ever less credible — though not necessarily with President Trump, who famously declared that he believed Mr. Putin when he said he didn't meddle in American elections.
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As the Syria-sized republic battles worsening weather crises and growing migration within and out of the region, it is racing to find ways to stem a tide of climate migrants, keep people on ever-less-productive land and create new jobs for the unemployed.
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Over the past few years, the Chinese regime has become ever less tolerant of political dissent — to such an extent that, these days, American leaders have become far more reluctant to make claims about China's political future or the impact on it of trade and investment.
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Such men would exist without industrial-scale porn, but porn selects for them, as it selects for a romantic landscape like our own: ever-more-liberated and ever-less-erotic, trending Japan-ward in its gulf between the sexes, with marriage and children and sex itself in shared decline.
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In recent years, the concept has been repeated to feature ever-less-imperfect expectant bodies on social media and in magazines, almost always taut and fit, including singer Beyoncé (posed in her underwear surrounded by flowers, on Instagram), tennis phenom Serena Williams (Vanity Fair cover), and Jessica Simpson (Elle magazine cover).
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Tumblr used to be the best social network on the internet for porn, and despite people expressing a desire to ride Venom's tongue and fuck the clown from IT, the site's been getting ever less horny since corporate overlords at Yahoo acquired it in 2013 and Verizon bought them out in 2017.
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Health and education are equally hard hit: managers now feel they need to each have their little squadron of assistants, who often have nothing to do, so they end up making up new exotic forms of paperwork for the teachers, doctors, nurses… who thus have ever less time to actually teach or treat or care for anyone.
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That there is always money to find for endless wars and the dubiously useful services of campaign consultants, but somehow only ever less for the sorts of services that people already use and need more of, is the sort of thing that, on its face, would present any left political candidate with an appealing rhetorical running lane.
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