Sentence examples for an impressive decline from inspiring English sources

It has presided over an impressive decline in armed conflicts and military coups.

Yet, as compared with the state of affairs that existed from 1860 to 1918, Kantianism suffered an impressive decline that continued until approximately the third quarter of the 20th century.

Portugal is no exception, although there has been an impressive decline in annual compensation (and labor costs) that on average is around 10 percent, in part through not paying the so-called 13th month bonus.

Indeed, if housing costs are taken into account, an alternative measure that the government has also been using, 4.1m were poor, a third of all children.Since 1998-99 the number of poor children has fallen by 700,000, an impressive decline but not enough to meet the first target of reducing child poverty by a quarter.

Despite an impressive decline in the gender gap in employment, females are still less likely to work than males: about 76%% of working age males and 63 % of working age females were employed in 2010.

It has the potential to roll back the current gains in malaria control efforts in endemic countries by creating resistance and allowing the re-emergence of parasites in areas that have seen an impressive decline in parasitemia.

Perinatal mortality is showing a downward trend in The Netherlands, but other European countries have reported a more impressive decline in the mortality rates [ 4, 5].

Even the impressive decline in unemployment has partly come about because many people have given up looking for work, and so are not counted as unemployed.

The impressive decline in death rates from heart disease since 1970 is threatened by climbing rates of obesity and diabetes, the aging of the population, and early signs of heart disease in adolescents.

The recent impressive decline in CHD mortality in Eastern European countries are also explained by the improvements in three major risk factors such as a decrease in the percentage of smokers and a decrease in average serum cholesterol and blood pressure levels [ 22, 29, 32].

The overall theme for this year's conference was 20 Years and Beyond; Advancing children's rights in Rwanda to highlight many achievements in the country, such as the impressive decline in under-five mortality (the highest improvement in East and Southern Africa) which UNICEF Representative, Noala Skinner, described as "a child survival revolution".