1.   His worsening eyesight and declining health certainly heralded this decision, but the constraints of working for someone as particular and demanding as Gould could not have helped.

2.   And lawyers for Tucker are preparing to argue next week that he should be treated with leniency because of declining health.

3.   Because of declining health, this is thought to be his last year as a bell ringer.

4.   A friend, Tommy Manakides, said that Snyder had suffered from diabetes and had been in declining health and died of a coronary at Transitional Hospitals.

5.   But critics noted that what most older people in declining health really needed was help with domestic chores and with dressing and bathing.

6.   Certainly, he has been an erratic and increasingly ineffective leader, partly because of declining health.

7.   Chapman, who had lived with a pre-leukemic condition for a decade, had been in declining health in recent months, his son Douglass Chapman said.

8.   Despite his declining health, Mr. Peabody remained active, chairing the New England Town Meeting to Ban Land Mines earlier this month.

9.   For one thing, it is a measure of declining spiritual health.

10.   He had been in declining health for several months, according to the Aycock Funeral Home in Jupiter.