Sentence examples for pattern of declining from inspiring English sources

It also bucks a historical pattern of declining support for foreign assistance when control of Congress and the White House is divided between Democrats and Republicans.

Past studies assumed that the pattern of declining birth rates observed in Asia and Latin America in recent decades would be repeated in Africa.

For retailers, radio programmers and music industry observers, there is no clear answer to the question of whether "American Idol" has lost its ability to mint big stars, or whether these sliding numbers are simply a function of the larger pattern of declining album sales as consumers shift from buying CDs to downloading single songs.

Even then, the effects will be part of a larger pattern of declining funding over the past decade, NIH watchers say.

Luyssaert et al. themselves advise caution to avoid misinterpretation of their results by indicating "there is some degree of age-related decline in NPP beyond 80 years of age, and temperate and boreal forests both show a consistent pattern of declining NPP beyond an early maximum when analysed separately"[17].

South Korea South Korea is witnessing the same pattern of declining number of students coming to the US as Japan.

In India, Supantha Paul of the Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai found that patterns of declining rainfall during the Indian monsoon matched changing forest cover.

Many utilities, said Amory B. Lovins, an expert on energy efficiency, are "unexpectedly finding patterns of declining demand in previously robust sectors that they think may represent a basic change in previous trends".

Because it takes decades to chart a child's path into adulthood, economists are just starting to come to grips with the patterns of declining mobility that Obama is targeting.

This fits with patterns of declining rainfall in southwest Australia (averaging a 21% reduction relative to coastal values) being due to the reduction of native woody cover from 60%to30%0% between 1950 and 1970 (Andrich and Imberger 2013).

We found very similar patterns of declining species richness with increasing habitat modification between taxon-specific groups of similar geographic range categories.