Sentence examples for decline held from inspiring English sources

According to these, Mr Tenet is less culpable than symptomatic of an intelligence community that has been in steady decline, held back by political correctness and an over-reliance on technology.

The Oak Brook Ill.-based company’s shares slid 6.4%, or $3.48, to $50.62 in afternoon trading, but the decline held the Dow Jones industrial average back from even stronger gains.

The association between serum DHA levels and MMSE decline held up even after controlling for these food intakes (data not shown).

Yet predictions of NATO's decline hold it to an impossible cold war standard.

This pattern of big-city growth and smaller city decline holds in other countries too, especially Japan.

President Bush's speech on the centennial of Cuban independence amounted to an invitation that Fidel Castro is almost certain to decline: Hold free elections and liberalize your economy, and we will trade with you.

The retailer, which is battling to improve sales of women's clothing in particular, after two years of declines, held its overall share of the UK clothing market flat in the 24 weeks to the end of September, according to figures leaked to trade journal Retail Week.

When the fund's value started to decline, he held on for a few years but eventually sold early in 2002, after losing about $6,000, or 17percentt, of his initial investment.

Because the federal government pays the cost of that expansion, the states that have declined have held down federal spending.

Births among women ages 15 to 44 either declined or held steady for nearly every racial and ethnic group tracked by the CDC.

Suppose I assert, "If the GDP continues to decline, unemployment will rise", but the GDP does not continue to decline, instead holding steady.