The phrase "a declining willingness" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where someone's readiness or eagerness to do something is decreasing over time.
Example: "There has been a declining willingness among employees to participate in after-hours meetings."
Alternatives: "a decreasing readiness" or "a waning eagerness."
Yet Goldberg's book reflects a declining willingness among many diaspora Jews to write blank cheques for Israel, either literally or figuratively.
They suggest an overreach of power by the executive, (or as Senator Cory Bernardi calls it, "power creep"); a declining willingness of parliaments to defend core freedoms; and the exclusion of judges from interpreting laws according to common law principles of legality or and the presumption that parliament intends to comply with international law.
Philip Styles, for example, related it to a declining willingness of members of the gentry to attend visitations, which he traced to a growing proportion of "newly risen" families, who lacked long pedigrees and were therefore apathetic about registering them.
These falling returns are neither caused by changes in the sample design and reduced willingness to reveal personal incomes in the survey, nor by a declining quality of education.
"Right now, people are in the midst of a declining economy and very upset about it, and it appears that it influences their willingness to help each other, which has consequences".
The smaller Irish-American family has been attributed to many factors, but the one most often cited is a decline in willingness to defer to the Roman Catholic Church after the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s.
Contrary to our hypothesis that a male sample would show a decline in willingness, a high number of men chose to be seen by a PA instead of an MD.
According to Roland Berger's recent survey, a third of companies are seeing a decline in banks' willingness to lend.
Though the number of cases is small, Mr. Fabian said, they send a loud signal to investors about a decline in communities' willingness to honor their promises.
These changes were largely driven by a decline in mean willingness to pay between baseline and follow-up within the 0/400 Naira group.
A decline in the willingness of members of the public to participate in research of this kind poses substantial challenges for researchers at a time when the demand for representative data on ageing populations is high.
