Sentence examples for rather decline from inspiring English sources

In an open question, the participants were asked if they could describe how they see the future of teleradiology, and if they thought that its importance would grow or, rather, decline.

In the case of EXE, given the observed weight loss related improvement in insulin sensitivity (+39%), one may have expected that if β-cell secretory function had remained unaltered, the C-peptide response would rather decline.

These days, Bank of America no longer charges overdraft fees for debit purchases, but rather declines the card if there are not sufficient funds in its customer's account to cover the purchase.

"They spent a lot of time here and they all decided to take their cue from different moments in Folkestone's history - its glamorous past, its rather declining past four decades and its promising future.

Rather, declining sub-sectors are often "mature" but can be revived by new technologies.

The oscillating, rather declining, annual solar radiation values during this 6-year period (Fig. 5) cannot explain this behaviour.

However, renal mRNA expression of SIGIRR rather declined in UUO versus unobstructed kidneys, especially 10 days after UUO (Figure 3A).

Creatinine levels rather declined after TNF administration, most likely reflecting muscle catabolism.

The number of maternal deaths has rather declined slowly in some SSA countries, with current trends indicating that Africa will not meet the target of reducing maternal deaths by 75percentt by the year 2015.

Rather, the decline in hires and separations is driven by a decline in the job-to-job flow rates as well as by declines in worker flows associated with secondary and short-duration jobs.

"There are different kinds of crisis in different countries, and some countries in the developing world are experiencing expansion rather than decline".Newspapers in western Europe are having to manage long-term decline rather than short-term pain.