Sentence examples for about the descent from inspiring English sources

The military has commissioned at least three investigative reports about the descent into abusive interrogation.

The phrase about the descent into hell was probably the last to be added to the creed.

11.19am: Syria: Here's video of Kofi Annan's soft-spoken warning about the descent into civil war in Syria.

The agency's press office today dismissed all theories about the descent as "complete assumption or sheer hearsay".

Reading about the descent, with the anticipation of what was to come and not knowing who would perish, made my heart race.

One woman asked, "What are you writing?" I told her about the descent from working poor to homeless, income inequality, my personal experience.

It shows a watching world and a watching Africa that there is nothing inevitable about the descents into dictatorship and incompetence that have insidiously come to characterise the pathways of post-colonial independence.

He even wrote a book about it: The Descent of Man, or Selection in Relation to Sex (1871).

When the astronauts learned from Houston of the stage's impact, Swigert radioed back, "Well, at least something worked on this flight.…I'm sure glad we didn't have an LM [Lunar Module] impact too!" About two hours later the descent stage propulsion system of the lunar module was ignited for 5 seconds at 10 percent throttle, 21 seconds at 40 percent throttle, and almost 4 minutes at full throttle.

Charles Darwin was very interested in primate colouration, writing about it in The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals and in an article published in Nature in 1876.

For a while we sat together, exhausted by the climb behind us, wondering about the steepness of the descent ahead in the looming dusk.