Sentence examples for painful decline from inspiring English sources

After a decade of painful decline, manufacturing is tentatively adding jobs.

In 1995, at age 10, Alora watched her mother's slow, painful decline and death.

Patients may face years of painful decline, debility and repeated hospital stays, she said.

It opened its doors in 1968, just after many historians say the city began its painful decline.

The Pyxis episode begins in 2006, when the overheated and overleveraged housing market was beginning its painful decline.

Unlike everyone else, Steve Yzerman most notably, there was no painful decline to precede the inevitable end.

They predicted more painful declines to come.

Both portfolios reached new highs within months, then began long, painful declines.

Americans also say they believe the economy will worsen before it improves — a sign of deeply engrained pessimism that reflects a year of painful declines in stocks, jobs and home values.

The bureau's findings were worse than many economists expected, and brought into sharp relief the toll the past decade — including the painful declines of the financial crisis and recession —had taken on Americans at the middle and lower parts of the income ladder.

Many investors remember the painful declines suffered earlier this decade.