"decreased tolerance" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe a situation in which someone's patience or willingness to accept certain behavior has become diminished over time. For example: "John had a decreased tolerance for his co-worker's tardiness, and eventually he decided to talk to his boss about it."
"Because of an increased sensitivity to alcohol and decreased tolerance as one ages, lower amounts of alcohol can have a bigger effect," he said.
In contrast, a null mutant for this gene showed decreased tolerance to high-salinity and drought stress.
A salt-inducible AP2/ERF type TF gene, OsERF922 ox rice shows decreased tolerance to salt stress with an increased Na+/K+ ratio in the shoots (Liu et al. 2012).
The results for detection thresholds are consistent with the only previous study to examine cold pressor exclusively in CTH sufferers [9], and are consistent with Marlowe [24], who reported decreased tolerance but not detection thresholds to ice placed at the temple in frequent tension-type headache sufferers.
Although safe zones for screw fixation in both normal and dysmorphic second sacral segments have been established, challenges exist in achieving proper fixation into the S2 body because of its smaller size and decreased tolerance of variant screw trajectories [3, 11, 12].
A number of different hypotheses were advanced: the hiring of more police, changes in community policing practices, more severe sentencing guidelines for offenders, decreased tolerance for minor infractions, an increase in religiosity, a decline in the popularity of crack, changes in the demographic profile of the population, etc.
The trend also reflects investors' willingness to spend whatever it takes to hire the people who can achieve good financial results, as well as their decreasing tolerance of anyone who does not.
The seasonal differences in adult tolerance to irradiation observed by Wang X .et al. (2011) may reflect decreasing tolerance to irradiation as individual adults age.
OsWRKY13 enhances resistance to Xanthomonas oryzae pv oryzae (Xoo) and Magnaporthe oryzae and decreases tolerance to cold and salt stresses (Qiu et al. 2007, 2008).
However, conventional floating-gate memory still has several limitations, such as difficulties in scaling down owing to increasing cell-to-cell interference, decreasing coupling ratio, and non-scalable tunneling oxide thickness owing to decreasing tolerance for charge loss [19 21].
There is decreasing tolerance for this treatment, both from women athletes themselves and from the public in general.
