And business schools began rethinking their curriculums amid a growing awareness that American business, once dominant in the world, has tough new competition from overseas.

This type of song, once dominant, after 1650 has ceded its hegemony to the newer tonal types, but can still be found in isolated villages.

In 2006, it overtook the once dominant neighboring community of Kirchheim.

Varying prime time numbers and improvements at competitors have since lead to a decline in the once dominant news operation's ratings.

American regional cuisines are developments of the foods of ethnic cultures that were once dominant in our social fabric.

Empires have crumbled; nations once dominant are forced to adapt to shrunken influence.

The once dominant Lotus 72 had lost its edge; Chapman was developing the 77 and had abandoned the 76.

The once dominant timber industry is now relatively small.

The network's big television hit, "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire," is a shadow of its once dominant self.

Agriculture, once dominant, but not very profitable, is still common in the Magadino valley.