Sentence examples similar to Decidedly decline from inspiring English sources

Almost every major US university has a thriving east Asian department; when I recently inquired about the state of European, and specifically British, studies at the major US universities, I was told that it was a decidedly declining area.

However, expectations had been decidedly low for a decline of 3% compared with a year earlier.

The battered down Nasdaq Composite lost 0.60% The market internals were strong Friday as advances led the declining stocks by a 3.8 to 1 margin but for the week the market internals were decidedly negative as 2476 stocks declined with only 728 advancing.

Decidedly mixed.

Decidedly so.

Decidedly sniffy.

Decidedly disappointing.

Decidedly other.

Decidedly unexpected.

Decidedly deciduous plants!

It's rare that such a change in lineup isn't accompanied by considerable drama, but if there was any, it stayed decidedly behind the scenes, with the band mostly declining to discuss it.