Sentence examples for a further descent from inspiring English sources

Instead, it marks a further descent into a twilight world as bafflingly counterproductive as it is cruel.

However, some critics lament what they see as a further descent of a serious museum into the cult of celebrity.

Forceful intervention (he did not propose military action) was essential to prevent a further descent into civil war and sectarianism, he said.

By March 2005, only a short, sharp shock - and the dramatic reorganisation that followed - could have prevented a further descent into apathy and the chronic acceptance of underachievement.

A further descent into crisis has been averted, but Mourinho still has much to do with many of his players well below their best.

That is the midwifing of a new, peaceful, democratic Iraq -- or, contrarily, a further descent into bloodshed and chaos, at a continuing heavy cost in Iraqi and American lives.

Neither Henry VIIi of his father planned to destroy Buckingham because of his lineage and Henry VIII even allowed Buckingham's son and heir, Henry Stafford, 1st Baron Stafford, to marry Ursula Pole which gave the Stafford's a further line of royal blood descent.

Ironically, we should also appreciate the pragmatic attitudes in the White House and Pentagon which have thus far at least prevented an even further descent into chaos in the Middle East.

It stands isolated among chestnut and cherry trees, reached via a long, wriggling track; below are meadows, falling to a farm or two, and a further distant descent along the yawning valley.

American officials privately suggested that they would increase the supply of weapons to Mr Ahmed's feeble government.However, whereas that might be just enough to provoke those who see Mr Ahmed as nothing more than an American lackey and a turncoat, it won't be nearly enough to stop Somalia's further descent into chaos and self-destruction.

This season they average half that and administration has hastened their further descent.