The phrase "accelerate declines" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you want to describe the process of speeding up a decrease or downturn in a particular situation, such as economics or performance metrics.
Example: "The recent policy changes are expected to accelerate declines in the company's market share."
Alternatives: "speed up reductions" or "hasten downturns".
To prop up the stock market, the government has introduced stiffer new penalties for short selling, a way of betting on falling prices that tends to accelerate declines.
But that could lead to poorer-quality racing and only accelerate declines in betting handles at both tracks, industry officials say.
Advances in HIV prevention methods offer promise to accelerate declines in incidence, but how these methods can be deployed to have the best effect on the heterogeneous landscape and drivers of the pandemic remains unclear.
Doing so, the Blueprint argued, would accelerate declines in HIV incidence globally.
Thus, CMMB appears to have limited application and should only be implemented after rigorous appraisal on a case-specific basis; otherwise it has the potential to accelerate declines of marine species currently threatened by fisheries bycatch.
The Call to Action forum will launch Committing to Child Survival: A Promise Renewed, a pledge to accelerate declines in maternal and child mortality.
COPD exacerbations reduced physical activity and frequent exacerbations accelerate decline in activity over time.
"As diversity in the industry film slate decreases, we think the risks of accelerating declines in overall attendance are also increasing," he wrote.
In contrast, IHD mortality in all groups in California and in the female population in New York and Utah began to decline in the early 1950s, with accelerated declines since 1968.
Increased fire frequency accelerated declines in area occupied by Douglas-fir, lodgepole pine, and subalpine fir, and it maintained local abundance but not range expansion of ponderosa pine.
"With accelerating declines during the first quarter, it is unreasonable to expect home values to return to stability by the end of 2011".
