Sentence examples for declined owing from inspiring English sources

By midcentury, the neighborhood had declined owing to suburban flight, and many houses were chopped up into apartments.

Despite vast mineral wealth, mining production severely declined owing to mismanagement, corruption, endemic civil unrest, the global recession, and a lack of new investment.

Cocoa beans, from the cacao tree, are the major agricultural export; production of other industrial crops has declined, owing to the general stagnation in agriculture.

The annual bonus for John Lewis and Waitrose staff has fallen for the third year in a row, as profits at their parent group declined owing to higher pension charges.

The result was that a large number of developing countries were unable to meet their debt obligations, as export earnings declined owing to the recession, interest rates were rising, and new money was not forthcoming.

At CSF > 2.0, xylose levels declined, owing to degradation.

Africans' lifespan is still declining, owing largely to the scourge of AIDS, 60% of whose worldwide victims are African.

As just one example, bottlenecked viruses show considerable fitness declines owing to the accumulation of deleterious mutations through 'Muller's ratchet' (Elena et al. 2000).

In ecosystems exposed to global warming, selection for high sporulation rates may lead to increases in MSR at the evolutionary time scale, even though MSR may initially decline owing to short-term acclimation.

This takes into account the impact that past levels of asbestos exposure are having on current incidence by the direct link to mesothelioma deaths that are still increasing, whereas lung cancer in general is declining owing to the reduction in smoking.

In a preface dated 1912, Hardy lamented the fact that such traditional woodlanders' trades were then declining owing to the increasing use of metals and decreasing use of thatch.