Sentence examples for decline itself from inspiring English sources

Now the decline itself is in question.

Or did the decline itself cause so much unhappiness?

That said, they do not conclude that population decline itself is responsible for the unhappiness.

While some attributed this lower fertility to deliberate efforts of people who needed to be informed of the dysgenic effects of their behaviour, others saw the fertility decline itself as evidence of biological deterioration of the superior stocks.

As Greenberg notes, "a widely held view is that this species could not sustain itself without a giant population," so that decline itself became a cause of further decline.

They, of course, understand what's going on, and try to feign or adjust, though body language and facial expressions have a way of revealing the true state of things: not the decline itself but the disappointment and, sometimes, an angry disbelief that what once was is somehow no more.

Today, in the Northeast, the native phragmites appears to have declined, itself a victim of the invader.

Since § 401(a)(1), authorizes only a contract for Amtrak to undertake a railroad's entire responsibility for intercity rail passenger service, the respondent contends that Southern cannot relieve itself of only part of this responsibility by allowing a subsidiary to contract with Amtrak while declining itself to do so.

The city cannot arrest the decline by itself.

A visitor does not have to travel far downstream before post-industrial decline reasserts itself.

The decline announced itself dramatically in the mid-90's, when a succession of disastrous performances on national tests placed California's children at or near the bottom of the country in reading, math and science.