Sentence examples for most precipitous decline from inspiring English sources

Mrs Arroyo herself has presided over the most precipitous decline, despite having pledged to put an end to tax-dodging and to restore the government's finances.

Irvington began its most precipitous decline after 1996, when the state forced it to reassess its property values, leading to a 30percenttaxax increase.

According to bat conservation experts, this is "the most precipitous decline of North American wildlife in recorded history" — worse than the destruction of the American bison and the passenger pigeon.

At this point, there's at least a chance that Donald Trump might preside over the most precipitous decline of a truly dominant power in history, one only recently considered at the height of its glory.

Tajikistan experienced the most precipitous decline in GDP because of its civil war, with health funding dropping from 6% of GDP in 1991 to only 1.1% in 1996 (4).

Newsweek, the once-venerable magazine that experienced one of the most precipitous declines in media over the last decade, is up for sale.

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If the deal goes ahead, it will bring together two companies that have suffered some of the most precipitous declines in stock market value in recent years.

One of the most precipitous declines was in the number of reported auto thefts: there were 34 last year, the lowest on record and just one-third of the number of auto thefts registered in 2000.

Such tales echo throughout Germany these days, and they may explain why Mr. Schröder, since his re-election, has suffered one of the most precipitous declines in popularity of any postwar chancellor.

We also found that the intensity of fishing-induced mortality had a significant positive effect on the rate of change in length at 50% maturity, with the most heavily exploited populations experiencing the most precipitous declines in length.