Sentence examples for decay of values from inspiring English sources

But overcrowding and underemployment, the clash between liberalized and hidebound attitudes, a decay of values, vigilante policemen going after private partying with a hockey stick instead of alertly patrolling beats to prevent rape and other crime – all these have turned India's showpiece into a city where dog can survive only by eating dog.

In the context of declining conventional funerals, customers were perceived to be liable to a decay of values consistent with the "disposal mentality".

The incumbents described this decay of values as "a regional thing" (Expert 13) because vast parts of the population in Berlin had broken away from the religious traditions and values that had formed social cohesion.

But when the security forces witness the decay of values at the leadership level, the incentive for sacrifice plummets.

Within a Bayesian framework, Knapick et al. (2012) proposed a solution by using the singular value decomposition of T such that the decay of singular values is mimicked in the prior distribution of θ.

Figure 1, A−C shows the decay of singular values for data set MFL-WW. Figure 1A shows all singular values, and Figure 1B excludes the first 10 singular values and depicts the rapid decay in the first subsequent 45 singular values, a smaller rate of decay in singular values 45−200 and the rapid decay of singular values after the 200th singular value, reflecting the actual collinearity trend.

Figure 2B depicts the decay of singular values for BIR2 (dashed line) and BIR1 (solid line), both mimicking the current decay of singular values shown in Figure 1, A and B. The decay of BIR1 reflects the polynomial function i − 1, but smoothed by the parameter h, as indicated in (18), with less shrinkage for the first singular values and increasing shrinkage toward the later singular values.

Harvey often opined on rising taxes, bloated government, and the decay of American values.

In these erudite and highly readable pieces, he both charted the gradual abjuration of history by modernist artists, writers and thinkers, and showed how, paradoxically, they could be best understood historically, in the context of the decay of liberal values in pre-1914 Vienna.

At room temperature, no decay of r33 values of all polymers was observed over a period of 1 month.

Exponential decay of expected values allows the computation of the confinement times of both ions and electrons.