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The dark is faltering and its once-mighty stranglehold on your world is slipping.

But it stems from the fact that this once-mighty engine of the FTSE-100 has stalled at home.

The once mighty river Jordan is now just a trickle.

The great global economic convergence rumbles on, laying low the once mighty, and raising up the once downtrodden.

The SNS victory may portend the eclipse of the once-mighty Radicals in the next general election.

Historian Niall Ferguson has made the case that high debt and profligate spending will cause the downfall of a once mighty empire.

In a separate case, Jack Abramoff, a once-mighty lobbyist, pleaded guilty to fraud, tax evasion and conspiracy to bribe public officials.

In many cases records of expenditure or taxation are the most important relics of a once mighty civilization.

And, Nokia. . . well, the once-mighty leader saw its global market share tumble to 15. 2 percent from 38. 1 percent a year earlier.

He ordered that anyone found taunting the once mighty Venal Anatomica be summarily shot.

Borders, a once-mighty book chain, was flattened this year.

But why did a once-mighty civilisation succumb to the West?

The once mighty firm now has a market capitalisation of just $2. 7 billion.

How a once-mighty publisher fell, and why it may rise again