America's partners wonder whether its commitment to the global economic order is waning.

Members insisted that the Council's commitment to recycling had not waned, but they argued that finding money for recycling should be the Mayor's responsibility.

That commitment has waned in recent years, but now City Center is returning the favor with a plan to provide new support for dance in hard economic times.

"His commitment - both financial and emotional - has not waned at all."

But they also offered a guarded hint that the Fed's open-ended commitment to easy money may be waning.

Her critics will tell you that her commitment to tennis has waxed and waned from year to year.

In recent decades, as the nation's commitment to integration has waned, and the Supreme Court has become more conservative, the trend lines have reversed.

But the commitment of those who wanted to build the project, Foxhill Manor, did not wane.

That need creates a market for landlords whose commitment to zoning laws can wane in the face of profit.

A serious concern of the author's is that governments' commitment to education, so strong up to the mid-1970s, has waned.