Sentence examples for has been descent from inspiring English sources

The course of Ms. Islam's life in the last eight years has been descent toward family disintegration, followed by tenuous ascent to the relatively stable, but still troubled, situation the family is currently in.

The fact that a few other families are using the treatment, however, does not show there has been any descent down a slope.

Another indicator that has sent many market watchers into a froth has been the descent in the CBOE Market Volatility Index (VIX).

A major reason for this development has been the descent of metabolic engineering, particularly secondary metabolic engineering, to a collection of demonstrations rather than a systematic practice with generalizable tools.

It has been a gradual descent.

"My life has been one long descent into respectability," she once remarked.

Since then it has been a steady descent of around 25% to an average sale of 145,117 in the second half of last year.

Since then, it has been on the descent.

Typically, F, defined as the probability that both alleles at any locus within an individual are identical by descent (IBD), has been computed from pedigree information.

The plane is an anomaly for which no line of descent has been identified.

Lately, the descent has been steep.