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It may be British pragmatism: budget cuts are the number one concern, but equally many think their services are actually getting better as deteriorating.
It would be hard to argue that compared to other central and eastern European post-communist countries, united Germany failed to establish justice for victims of the GDR: lustration and purges were comparatively intensive and extensive, without deteriorating into the kind of witch-hunts that Poland experienced a few years back.
"Deteriorating relations between the US and Russia over Ukraine, the rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran, and rifts between the backers of Syria's fragmented opposition have sapped hope that a meaningful political process can take place.
And his all-round play seems to be deteriorating ; against Stoke on Saturday his touch seemed clumsy and his passing wonky (mind you, he was not alone in that).
Marquardt reports a deteriorating scene at the hospital, and again confirmed at least four dead, despite skepticism in some Israeli media.
They also involved several deteriorating patients – including a child – who received "sub-optimal care" before they died; an unexplained "patient accident outside A&E where a wheelchair collided with a van causing patient injury"; several unexpected deaths; medication errors; two newborns dying unexpectedly; and a failure to properly safeguard a vulnerable child and an adult.
The gravamen of the charge against this government is that, for all the triumphalism about a long-delayed period of economic growth, it woefully mishandled the economy when it came in – and plans an assault on our already deteriorating public services, if it is re-elected, that would quite seriously threaten the social fabric of the nation.
The Foster Wheeler comments appear consistent with our view that the environment for Oil Service shares is deteriorating.
Alerted to the deteriorating situation by neighbours, city authorities claimed they were powerless to intervene, apparently in the belief that they had no right to intercede on land belonging to private developers.
Many pages are devoted to grim and humorous accounts of the deteriorating physical and moral situation, brought about by the vulgar Prussians invading Reck's beloved Bavaria.
While greens welcomed the Channel tunnel as investment in public transport, he damned it as "designed to further increase our economic activity, exacerbating our rapidly deteriorating environment".
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The primary grammatical function of "deteriorating" is as a present participle acting as an adjective. It modifies nouns to describe something that is currently in a state of decline, as shown by Ludwig AI's analysis and various examples.
Expression frequency: Very common
