The waxing and waning of the Republicans and Democrats in the U.S. reflects this.

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That we have to argue over waxing and waning...the syringe...this is incredible for both sides.

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For example, one way to track the reproductive cycle in a female is to follow the waxing and waning of sex hormones.

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Long ago, when Apple managed its own factories, precisely matching the waxing and waning demand of the market sometimes caught the company flatfooted.

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The festival links yin and yang, the qualities of light and dark or cold and warmth (among others) to the waxing and waning of the sun's light.

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The popular explanation for those spending patterns at the time revolved around the waxing and waning of security threats, but Ronald Epstein of Merrill Lynch Bank of America has a different take.

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Contrary to the Arabists' impassioned claims, the waxing and waning of America's relations with Arab states over the years has borne little to no relation to the state of America's relations with Israel.

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Unfortunately, his mnemonic would only work in the northern hemisphere, where the moon is observed in the southern sky with the right side of the moon sunward during the waxing phase and the left side sunward during the waning phase.

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