1.   And, as De Beers influence has waned, the Angolan government has begun diverting its rough diamond shipments to Israel from Antwerp.

2.   As government influence wanes, what binds the world together is increasingly multinational business.

3.   At the time, many U.S. policymakers had naively believed drug influence would wane in Latin America when democracies emerged from corrupt military dictatorships, Cash said.

4.   Baker and Goodrich resigned after their influence waned.

5.   But even as their economic status has improved and their influence has waned, their anger has not diminished.

6.   But in recent years his national influence had waned as the conference of American bishops grew more conservative.

7.   But their influence has waned drastically with the election of Pataki and the success of Clinton in moving the national Democratic Party to the right.

8.   But their influence is waning in a world in which substantial cleavage increasingly competes for attention with a wasp waist.

9.   He had hoped to retain leverage within the party by staying in the race, but he made few public appearances, and his influence waned.

10.   It could try to block the deals, though its influence is waning.