Sentence examples for graduated decline from inspiring English sources

Ranking points are now based on a "graduated decline" system, which eliminates sudden drops in points on the anniversary of events in which golfers gained points.

He complained with special vehemence when his uncle Harold, the first Lord Rothermere (Lord Northcliffe had died in 1922, the year King graduated), declined to give him the important job in newspapers that he felt was his due.

To focus on possible shifts in daily activity pattern, hourly activity pattern during the day was expressed as a percentage of the total (100%) daily activity on that specific day (i.e., not referring to day 2 and not corrected for the graduate decline in activity for the tumour-bearing groups).

One young Dartmouth graduate, declining to give his name, said: "It's a singles party masquerading as a networking event.

The ratio of college graduates' wages to high school graduates' wages can also increase when the pay of high school graduates declines.

But if you want official numbers, here they are: Employers estimated that their hiring of recent graduates declined 21.6 percent in 2009, and that it would drop another 7 percent this year.

After graduating, Oosterbaan declined offers to play professional football and baseball.

He also said that he wasn't interested in publishing scholarly articles, and that he had a chance to publish an article when he graduated from Yale Law School, but declined due to the time commitment involved.

Even if standards have declined since I graduated, I'm sure that the young people walking up to that podium I ascended more years ago than I care to admit recognize that she enabled one of the costliest -- in spiritual as well as economic terms -- lies anyone has ever perpetrated in the history of this country.

Second, it allows for graduated changes in cognition (both declines and improvements) to be assessed.

The average decline in applicants who graduated from the "elite" schools was 28 percent.