Sentence examples for creeping decline from inspiring English sources

Not even Newport, it turns out, is immune to the creeping decline in traditional values: "All these rude people from New York have been coming up and going to Bailey's Beach, which is, like, the most exclusive private beach in the country".

Paul Healy, a senior policy adviser at the NHS Confederation, which includes service providers, said: "The last 24 months have established a creeping decline in the stability of providers in the NHS and the figures published today do not indicate a significant shift in this trend.

National purpose smacks of "the common good," and sneering at that is the new way to cut a dashing figure, change the subject, and evade self-assessments that might explain this creeping sense of national decline.

Home sales have been creeping up and the steep decline in prices since 2006 appears to have bottomed.

Leader of the SDP, 1983-87, 1988-1990 After decades of creeping corporatism and relative economic decline, Margaret Thatcher's premiership championed radical market-led economic reforms that went on to become the foundation of our national economic prosperity.

As reported elsewhere on Forbes.com, the National Safety Council NSCC) says that, despite myriad advancements in auto safety and stricter state DUI and licensing laws, motor vehicle deaths been steadily creeping upwards after decades of decline.

City income-tax revenue also appears to be creeping up this year, after several years of decline.

And welfare rolls have been creeping up after four years of sharp decline.

Economic decline has brought with it a creeping malaise smothering the optimism that gripped the town when segregation ended.

But in recent months, unemployment started creeping up again after a long period of decline, providing Mr. Le Pen with more ammunition for his anti-immigrant message.

LeVier states: "The quality of our pilots is creeping down and down". Fact: National Transportation Safety Board records reveal a continuous decline in total aviation accidents and fatalities for the past 10 years.