Sentence examples for historical decay from inspiring English sources

The Quay Brothers' inspired work traffics in death, too: their puppets are crumbling from the outside in, and they've weathered worse than their cracked skin — urban and historical decay, for instance.

Although she has an acute sense of historical decay -- of the discontinuities that estranged the Haight-Ashbury generation from their parents' universe, of the focus-group politics that have estranged us from Washington -- her writing encompasses far more than stories of contemporary decline.

Despite the historical decay of haplotypes responsible for cattle breed formation, many selective sweeps were also revealed in Holsteins using EHH based methods [ 11, 12].

Without changes in the legal framework, the present situation can lead to the decay of these historical institutions.

The proposed review of the fundamental structure of the city could contribute to fostering a clearer vision on the future urban development, to cope with marginalization and inequality in newly developed quarters, and to combating the obvious decay in the historical parts of the city.

In our case, we do not calibrate the distance decay factor, since historical data for all analysed years would be needed to reflect the evolution of travel behaviour.

Actually, reticulations can indeed represent uncertainty or ambiguity in a relationship: see for instance Ho SYW, Jermiin LS (2004) Tracing the Decay of the Historical Signal in Biological Sequence Data.

Thirdly, it is a historical platitude that societies emerge and decay.

These results suggest that recent seismicity is possibly still affected by a number of large historical earthquakes and that the aftershock decay time strongly depends on each earthquake.

In summary, an epidemiological analysis of sport performances demonstrates that WR progression follows a piecewise exponential decaying pattern, altered by historical events.

This prehistoric period gradually transitioned to a historical one, where languages underwent change and decay and eventually went extinct.