Sentence examples for decline death from inspiring English sources

BIRTH, growth, decline, death: it is the usual cycle for people, companies and industries.

He was particularly impressed by Tieck's ideas on mysticism and the divine energy found in nature, and with that in mind he began working on his cycle of drawings titled Times of Day in 1803, a series of four allegorical works that represent morning, midday, evening, and night as well as the four seasons and the life cycle birth, maturity, decline, death.

Between 2% and 6% of falls result in fracture and the most common is hip fracture, [ 10] which is related with functional decline, death and increase in hospitalization costs [ 11].

However, published experiences [ 32, 40, 41] demonstrate that patients can, and indeed appreciate to talk about personal and sensitive issues such as increasing functional decline, death, dying, and bereavement in repeated interviews over a longer period of time.

In community populations, frailty is associated with an increased risk of functional decline, death, hospitalisation and worsening mobility [ 8] so it is logical to test frailty scales to assess their predictive properties in acute care to see if they can be used as a method of identifying those at risk.

Closer inspection shows that there has been a long-term trend (more than 100 years) of increasing damage while, after a period of moderate decline, deaths have shown an increase over the last 25 years or so.

KABUL, Afghanistan — Seven American soldiers were killed in fighting in eastern and southern Afghanistan over the weekend, after several weeks of declining death tolls among NATO forces.

By the beginning of the 21st century, AIDS had become the major disease in Kenya and threatened to reverse the declining death rate.

Though hammered regularly by cyclone-driven floods, it has seen declining death counts since it began investing in warning systems, shelters, coastal housing standards and evacuation plans.

In low-income countries, declining death rates were more than offset by population growth and greater total exposure to polluted air.

Re "Environment and Cancer: The Links Are Elusive" (Dec.13): The article presents one view of the relationship between the environment and cancer and even suggests that cancer is less of a problem due to declining death rates.