Sentence examples for decline opened from inspiring English sources

The decline opened up enticing prospects for Europe's great powers, which expected to annex strategically important territories.

Back in London, Ottolenghi started researching Arabic texts of the period, which, he says, introduced him to the "richly thick dining history" of the medieval caliphates, in particular the Abbasid dynasty, whose decline opened the door to the First Crusade, at the end of the eleventh century, and ushered in ninety years of Christian rule.

The theme of the gathering, which will include policy and political briefings, is a Brighter Future: Reversing America's Decline, Opening Opportunity for All.

But the continued appropriations decline opens the door up to privatizing whole state systems.

Any account of "decline" opens up a clear, linear chronology: we start in the sunny light of moment X and descend to the abyss of moment Y. Decline demands causal explanations, which remain most historians' favourite form of argument.

Some scholars have suggested that a famine in the Delta region contributed to their decline and opened the way for the emergence of the Hyksos dynasty.

To top it off, Western decline has opened up an historic window of opportunity for its rapid and inevitable rise.

Enrollment at Sunrise, a traditional neighborhood school, dropped over the last five years from 463 to 374 — and it was that decline that opened up classroom space for a charter to move in.

When her debit was declined, she opened her Bank of America app, which showed she had money in her checking account.

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