Sentence examples for future of decline from inspiring English sources

We have to adapt to these realities, or face a future of decline which goes to the very heart of our business," he said.

Republicans looked at a changing America, saw a future of decline and irrelevance for the party, and concluded that immigrants weren't so bad after all.

As he looks into a near future of decline and disillusionment, he wafts his high, wistful voice over tunes that unfold into near-orchestral pop, sharing the musical realm of bands like Mercury Rev and the Flaming Lips.

By the same token, it is worth repeating again and again that following the path of xenophobia and bigotry leads us to bleak future of decline and decay.

The past weeks have been a rude introduction to a future of declining influence, where it is a race against time before the Al Sa'ud family century runs its course.

Even if Congress and the White House reach a deal to avert the sequester, NASA and the Pentagon still confront a future of declining -- or at least less-quickly rising -- budgets.

A Future of Uncontrolled Decline?

In his widely discussed National Bureau of Economic Research paper, "Is U.S. Economic Growth Over?" Gordon predicts a dark future of "epochal decline in growth from the U.S. record of the last 150 years".

The National Academy of Sciences, in an update of its landmark 2005 report "Rising Above the Gathering Storm," said last fall that the United States faced a future of economic decline if it failed to make significant investments in research in and teaching of science and mathematics.

That puts the majority of congregations at a crossroad today: They must adapt to a culture where churchgoing is increasingly more of a choice than an obligation, or face a future of sustained decline, sociologists of religion note.

But as Immelt describes, after gazing into a future of slow decline and contraction, he recognized there could be no Plan B. "It's this," he said, "or bust".