Sentence examples for decline of play from inspiring English sources

A 2006 study by the United States Tennis Association, which has battled the trend somewhat successfully with a forceful campaign to recruit young players, found that punishing hurricane seasons factored into the decline of play in the South, while the soaring popularity of electronic games and newer sports like skateboarding was diminishing the number of new tennis players everywhere.

There are a growing number of organizations that are working to combat the decline of play with the implementation of physical activity programming in America's schools.

The decline of play coincides with the increased prevalence of teaching academic skills in pre-K and kindergarten and measuring children's learning outcomes with test scores.

But for Angela Hanscom to claim that sensory issues (such as Sensory Processing Disorder, commonly seen in developmental disorders such as Autism) can be prevented by age appropriate play is unsupported, at least by any of the links she provides in her Washington Post article "The decline of play in preschoolers - and the rise in sensory issues".

To watch this up close was to gain an understanding of the roots of the decline of team play in American basketball.

A decade ago our first multiple-signatory "toxic childhood" press letter described how children's health and wellbeing were being undermined by the decline of outdoor play, increasingly screen-based lifestyles, a hyper-competitive schooling system and the unremitting commercialisation of childhood.

It is 10 years since the group sent its first letter to the media, expressing concern about the way it believes children's health and wellbeing are being undermined by "the decline of outdoor play, increasingly screen-based lifestyles, a hyper-competitive schooling system and the unremitting commercialisation of childhood".

Surveys are issued and articles are published decrying the dramatic decline of children playing outdoors.

The suppression of the festival of Corpus Christi in 1548 as a means of reinforcing the Protestant church marked the rapid decline of morality plays and mystery cycles.

Even if we assume, conservatively, that community issues come up in conversation only once every 10 card games, the decline of card playing implies 50 million fewer 'microdeliberations' about community affairs each year now than two decades ago".

And Hodges says he does not believe any of his players will decline to play in the match.