Sentence examples for a longer decline from inspiring English sources

Others worry that a longer decline is possible for Shell and that stronger investment alternatives exist, especially among European oil producers.

Mostly, this distress is transient, and patients and their families cope well with it; for some it is part of a longer decline from an earlier peak, for others it is increasing, only to decline later.

The main opposition, the Congress party, after a decade of feuding and longer decline, was a mess.

The Tea Party's anti-intellectualism reflects a longer, deeper decline in the Republican Party's ability to tolerate a diversity of ideas and public-policy strategies, and to adapt to American multiculturalism.

Anthropologist Laura Betzig argues that the same pattern continued up to the twentieth century when, after a longer gradual decline, polygynous mating died out.

However, the data do not show a longer term decline, but instead support more recent analyses, suggesting a return to historic levels following a peak around 1997. 5 18–20 Clearly, the start and end dates included in analyses can influence the interpretation of time trends.

If the economy and corporate profits improve in the U.S., as many Wall Street strategists and economists expect, interest rates will no longer decline but rise, making it difficult for U.S. stocks to make new highs.

More generally, it has been on a longer-term decline since 2002.

A focus on stock price, therefore, can mask a longer-term decline in a company's financial footing.

More than just a cyclical trough, this may be a longer-term decline, because the left has lost its political narrative.

Or was 2008 just the beginning of a longer-term decline that won't be reversed until the major Western economies return to growth?