1.   And his main aim in his waning years is to cut through the confusion of a changing global economy and spiritual indifference with his post-Cold War message of humanity.

2.   And the actor in his waning years, a pathological specimen of self-parody, would seem to be an especially shameless subject.

3.   Both are thick with the self-conscious nostalgia and lyricism of the waning years of the Russian Empire.

4.   But for a man who spent his lifetime railing against the legacy of Western colonization, its waning years brought unprecedented change to sleepy villages like his.

5.   But Hackman and Washington lend angry conviction to the premise, delivering two of the best performances this waning year has seen.

6.   But now, the rituals of the waning senior year have given way to services and funerals.

7.   But Sgt. Maj. Pendergrass, in his waning years, could recollect images few men had seen and none would ever seen again.

8.   Costner plays Billy Chapel, a Tigers pitching god in his waning years whose star power might have been bigger than the game itself.

9.   During the waning years of the East-West conflict, restrictions on the sale of computers and other strategic items to Moscow were often breached.

10.   Even Richard Nixon, the most disgraced president in history, came to be regarded as a statesmen in his waning years.