Sentence examples for driving declined from inspiring English sources

But he said that after peaking around $2.75, prices would drift lower as driving declined in the dead of winter.

The issue arose in recent months after two police officers who fatally struck pedestrians while driving declined to take breath tests.

A second factor driving declining support for gun control, meanwhile, is a trend in our politics, inherent to American life but particularly potent since the social revolutions of the 1960s, for rights-based arguments to carry the day over more communitarian appeals.

When gas prices increase, discretionary driving declines — especially among teenagers, who are more influenced by price.

Forest fragmentation by the expansion of human activities is acknowledged as an important factor driving declines of forest species worldwide and quantitatively characterizing this trend is essential to understanding the response of populations of forest-dependent species.

Additionally, the relative importance of competition and IGP should be assessed; indeed, it is thought that competitive interactions might be more important than IGP in driving declines of native species (Smith & Gardiner, 2013).

Given the potential importance of parasites and disease in driving declines of managed honeybees (de Miranda & Genersch, 2010; Rosenkranz et al., 2010) and wild bumblebees (Cameron et al., 2011; Fürst et al., 2014; Schmid-Hempel et al., 2014), understanding the potential relevance of pharmacophagy to social pollinators may be a key to understanding and managing these declines.

As costs of driving have declined, the so-called 'rebound effect' makes people take advantage of the 'saved money' by driving diesel-powered cars more and with larger and more powerful vehicles.

Some other categories of deaths, meanwhile, like those attributed to drunken driving, have declined sharply.

Deaths from alcohol-impaired driving has declined from about 21,000 deaths in 1982 to nearly 10,000 in 2011.

Grownups will admit, on occasion, that some dangerous teenage behaviors, such as drunk driving, have declined.