Sentence examples for reverse a rise from inspiring English sources

UMNO is trying to reverse a rise in popularity of the main Islamic party, PAS.

France's competitiveness hasn't improved at all, consumer confidence is still very low and Hollande's pledge to reverse a rise in unemployment has amounted to nothing so far...It's much too soon to declare a recovery.

He plans to reverse a rise in violent crime with a thorough overhaul of the police, almost to double spending on education and to cut the proportion of Dominicans in poverty from 34% to around 20%.

The results are particularly obvious in Guangdong where, among other triumphs, the People's Congress recently forced the provincial government to reverse a rise in the price of drinking water and demanded the resignation of powerful officials in the environmental protection office for their failure to close polluting factories.

Mr Osborne also chose not to reverse a rise in the top rate of tax from 40p to 50p, announced by Mr Darling in 2009 but which only came into force in April 2010.

But now that the American troop reinforcement plan and a new counterinsurgency strategy have helped reverse a rising tide of car bombings and sectarian killings, there are signs that Iraqis are starting to return.

The investigation at the elite academy, which has sputtered along for about a year, has come to light as the military faces intense pressure to reverse a rising tide of sexual assaults within its ranks.

In this the council was seeking to reverse a rising tide of populism (art's role as entertainment, its realm the marketplace, its form the business, its audience mass), a goal summed up in the founding chairman John Maynard Keynes's ringing declaration: "Death to Hollywood".

In collaboration with international agencies such as Medecins Sans Frontier, the Ugandan government introduced a mass testing and treatment programme in the late 1980 s, which had the effect of reversing a rising prevalence rate.

Releasing the "swallowing muscles" is a good step toward reversing a rising larynx.

They accepted three years of scant pay rises that have helped to reverse a previous rise in unit labour costs.