Other sports feared that sponsors and audiences might ebb away if the drug-takers were not tackled.

ECONOMIST: The Tour de France is not dead yet

But the risk now is that the consensus for reform will ebb away.

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Yet Mr Singh's second government has offered no big policy reforms, while letting public support ebb away as voters grumble about graft and inflation.

ECONOMIST: Indian politics

As time began to ebb away the Munster pack took control of possession and they camped out in Toulouse's half, with a Rua Tipoki-inspired attack nearly leading to a second try.

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Since the life of a patent begins to ebb away from the moment it is filed, near the start of the entire process, each day saved on testing can bring millions of dollars in extra revenues to the patent's owners.

ECONOMIST: Clinical trials in India

We squeeze two children into each bunk, dim the compartment lights, and watch each fall asleep as villages outside, their streetside strings of naked bulbs silhouetting palm trees and mud cottages, ebb and fade away.

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Liz feels a kind of draining away, as if the ebb of the twilight has returned to the night all that is loose, unmoored.

NEWYORKER: Playdate

And while that uncertainty will ebb and flow as efforts are made to rescue Greece, it will not go away permanently anytime soon.

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