Sentence examples for participation falls from inspiring English sources

Building the member community means addressing potential democratic deficits, which arise when participation falls below a necessary minimum.

Most other democratic countries around the world go into paroxysms of civic angst when political participation falls below, say, the 80th percentile.

Or, instead, if his participation falls within the ambit of when "the presiding judge in consultation with the other judges…may deem necessary".

The more barriers to voting rise in America, and the further voter participation falls, the less it looks like that kind of society.

This not only extended the life of the programme; as a result, the labour-force participation of workers over 60 has been rising since the late 1990s, even as participation falls for younger workers for other reasons.Today's 65-year-olds can expect to live 19.2 more years, up from 16.4 in 1980.

Its participation falls in line with its development of an open source, next-generation storage service called Ceph that is compatible with offerings from the likes of Rackspace and Amazon Web Services (AWS).

As communism collapsed participation fell to 68% and it now stands at 45%.

When the amount was increased from $1 to $3 on 1993 tax returns, participation fell by more than four percentage points.

From 1972 to 1992, student government participation fell by about 20percentt, and work on a yearbook or a student newspaper by about 7percentt.

But Britain's decline has been particularly steep and particularly recent, with participation falling off a cliff after 1992 (see chart).

Pippa Norris, at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, hails the advent of a new breed of "critical citizens" (in a book of that name, Oxford University Press, 1999) who see that existing channels of participation fall short of democratic ideals and want to reform them.There are some signs of this.