The phrase "declining without" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe something that is diminishing or decreasing without a specific cause or reason. Example: The company's profits have been declining without any major changes in the market.
Likewise, at the Tribune papers the path will be to try to cut its costs faster than its revenues are declining without much thought to how to grow the business – not least of all because there is no one who really knows how to grow it.
Data suggests that in some areas polar bear numbers would be declining without any hunting.
This was deemed to be a socially appropriate response among the Filipinos, conforming to the cultural practice of indirectly declining without causing offence.
Quality would decline without subbing.
Put simply, margins — and profits — would have declined without these measures.
The Reds had invited his son but George W declined without explanation.
She declined without public comment, clearing the way for the ceremony on Sunday.
Aides, noting that the ceremony today was a private one, declined without further comment to release any photographs.
The deterministic models indicated that regardless of germination from the seed bank, the population would decline without clipping or similar treatments that enhance survival and reproductive output.
We found that while the level of cooperation steadily declined without a reputation mechanism, with our color-coded reputation mechanism the level of cooperation steadily increased with experience.
Judge Victoria A. Graffeo of the Court of Appeals declined without comment yesterday to let the man, Corey Arthur, appeal his conviction in the 1997 murder of Mr. Levin, his former teacher.
