Sentence examples for in its decline from inspiring English sources

The new frontiers that began to be established in the wake of World War I ushered in its decline.

It was only when the empire was in its decline and unable to control the depredations of local officials or maintain reasonable order that the Bulgarians found Ottoman rule unbearable.

"It will take time, but make no mistake, Al Qaeda is in its decline," he said in a speech at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies.

The business leaders, politicians and engineers who made the subway all those years ago understood that promise, and it remains the most profound message of the system even in its decline: The city can be built, and the people can come, and they can thrive — millions of them, then millions more.

The countryside half-abandoned because of the Long Drought but still beautiful even in its decline.

Even in its decline in 1908 this latter caravan numbered 20,000 camels.

It's also interesting to look at the Soviet Union in its declining years, and how the "madness" label was used as a political weapon.

In its declining years the communist system lived on bureaucratic fiddling, particularly in Central Asia.

Although ridiculed in its declining years, Dawson's Creek cast a significant shadow over its particular genre.

He says the advertisements were a compendium of the kinds of gadgets an industrial society produces in its declining years.

The area had been at the top of the heap in the 1860s but was by then in its declining years.