Sentence examples for lingering decline from inspiring English sources

She did those men a favor: surely better a swift exit than a lingering decline.

The end of lead as a gasoline additive is indeed in sight, however the modern story of lead is one of success and rebirth rather than of lingering decline.

If we continue to base our policy on a 10-year-old strategy and an underfunded budget, continually salami-slicing equipment, Britain's military effectiveness will suffer a lingering decline.

The 1997 Asian Financial Crisis affected the economy, resulting in a lingering decline of the value of the peso and falls in the stock market.

Anyone who has watched a lingering, painful decline knows that the urge to provide comfort is often mixed with a wish that it would just be over.

Blue-chip stocks declined on lingering worries that corporate profits will lag because of high energy costs and a weaker euro, the faltering single European currency.

Otherwise, in his hourlong news conference, Bishop Egan stayed perfectly on-message, saying he would make the recruitment of new priests a top priority in New York and that he would spend the summer learning about the archdiocese, and declining to discuss lingering lawsuits over alleged sexual abuse by priests.

The group asked, but Benedict will not meet with its leaders on this trip to discuss problems facing Austria in particular, but many other once solidly Catholic countries as well: declining Mass attendance, lingering anger over pedophilia scandals, an unmet desire for renewal of church life.

So, for at least the next two fiscal years, we're going to be feeling the lingering effects of the real estate decline".

The lingering effects of the global economic decline has made it difficult for owners to resell their houses, and stalled some plans for the purchase of larger homes.

Big Blue suffered from the lingering effects of the year-end decline in corporate spending on computers and computer services by companies focusing on the Year 2000 transition.