Sentence examples for descent long from inspiring English sources

During the final, tense minutes of the descent, long stretches of quiet in the mission support room were punctuated by cheers and clapping as confirmation of crucial events like the deployment of the parachute were confirmed.

The pairing seemed natural, if not inevitable: M.I.A., a Londoner of Sri Lankan descent, has long been guided by the notion that her music is inextricably linked to sociocultural concerns.

But fashion photography is in a rut, and its descent started long before the financial crisis or blogs or Twitter or any of the other things that are ostensibly killing magazines.

That descent is long since underway.

These stories are framed by the return of Alice Jackie Chungg), Marta and Henry's adopted daughter of Korean descent, whose long absence came as a consequence of the tragic event everyone is still sidestepping.

Physical Condition: when you are planning to trek in Himalayas, it demands a degree of physical fitness in which muscles are conditioned to take the rigors of ascent and descent in long marches.

Part of astrology's credibility was its pedigree, its long descent from sages of ancient Chaldaea and Egypt.

This area marked stiff resistance ahead of the stock's long descent toward the single-digit range, and could now provide a springboard of support for an extended rally.

Pedigree methods and estimates of identity-by-descent have long assisted breeding programs to predict genetic merit before trait evaluation (Crossa et al. 2010).

Saturday's 167.5km stage from Saint-Alban-Leysse to Morzine contains more hilly terrain before a long descent to the finish line.

There was a long descent from the last blue line of the mountains, and then we reached the plain, where the Ming-dynasty emperors are buried.