In both cases, experts on this region readily identify the factors behind the political decay.

Philip IV's reign, after a few years of inconclusive successes, was characterized by political and military decay and adversity.

It might also, at last, wake Fatah up to its political decay.

The political and economical decay in Indonesia during the 90s had Rais call a comprehensive issue: the political reform.

However, with the ascent of social and political decay, a few years after independence, he became deeply interested in writing about fiction.

This led to an abrupt socio-economic, political and cultural decay in Sarajevo as it found itself in the margins of the Kingdom.

He is depicted as an extreme traditionalist, against political and social decay, and a staunch defender of the Roman Republic.

The recession, they say, is a byproduct of the political decay that has taken hold in a country that was once more prosperous than Saudi Arabia.

I can no longer stomach the systemic political decay that has weakened our democracy

Yet the very emphasis on emotion has historically made melodrama a marker of a kind of political decay.