Sentence examples for declining to improve from inspiring English sources

In this story about the limits of art and artifice, declining to improve on life, and death, is a way of showing one's respect for them.

This relies on the world's best standing still for two years waiting for Arsenal to catch up - and Rodgers should not expect Liverpool's Premier League rivals to hang around declining to improve their squads while he bolsters his.

Instead of polishing the vocals, picking the best sections from several recordings, she often declined to improve the original guide track, full of errant notes and raw inconsistencies.

We may use the results of the use of the data, such as the number of approvals or declines to improve the product".

Historians attribute the decline to improving social controls over violence -- police forces and common access to courts of law -- and to a shift away from brutal physical punishment in child-rearing (a practice that still appears as a common factor in the background of violent criminals today).

The pope has devoted an impressive amount of his declining energy to improving relations with other Christians and other monotheistic religions.

The ability of memantine to decrease symptomatic decline and to improve functioning in patients with moderately severe-to-severe AD was originally demonstrated in two pivotal phase III trials [ 16, 17] and has subsequently been confirmed in other studies.

For example, in the area of ADLs, two multiple-characteristic functional forms were available: (1) as an improvement indicator: the person either improved or remained independent in ADLs; or (2) as a decline indicator: the person either declined; or, failed to improve.

While the work of O'Neil and Adams was popular with fans, the acclaim did little to improve declining sales; the same held true with a similarly acclaimed run by writer Steve Englehart and penciler Marshall Rogers in Detective Comics #471 476 (August 1977 April 197878), which went on to influence the 1989 movie Batman and be adapted for Batman: The Animated Series, which debuted in 1992.

One fund manager said he expected the recent decline in sales to improve by the fourth quarter of this year, in part because Kmart has brought in new kinds of apparel and made deals, like one with the WB Network regarding its fall television lineup, to promote its products.

The importance of honey bee populations to natural and agro-ecological systems, coupled to their current decline obligates us to improve the status quo.