Sentence examples for local decline from inspiring English sources

If she fails, we will see transport missing out on the opportunities that localism should deliver, and instead face a spiral of local decline as funding is cut to the bone.

The local decline pulled total applications down about 1percentt.

We learn that these light green, cone-shaped flowers became a commercial crop in New York State in 1808, and that by 1840, New York led the country in their production (at least until blights of mildew in 1910 led to their local decline).

This has resulted in a local decline in micro-hydro technical expertise and fewer waterwheel makers throughout Japan.

In Finland, the loss of ancient forests is thought to have led to a local decline.

The seafood industry ceased to be a major factor in the island's economy: most of the oyster-shucking houses, which had continued in operation using imported shellfish despite the local decline in oystering, finally closed in the 1980s and 1990s.

Mr. La Barbera, who has helped lead the cleanup of that local, declined to comment.

In recent decades, many studies have documented local declines of orchid species due to environmental changes.

Because the existing ponds support large numbers of waterbirds, restoring the entire area to tidal marsh could cause undesirable local declines for many species.

Some methods have been employed to discover signs of adaptation, among them identifying local declines in diversity, indicating selective sweeps in different populations of species (Andolfatto 2001; Nielsen 2005).

This parasite can potentially contribute to extinctions of vulnerable species, as exemplified by the case of the Allegheny woodrat (Neotoma magister), a species that has experienced local declines and extinctions that are linked to B. procyonis.