Sentence examples for reverse the descent from inspiring English sources

Photograph: Gulnara Samiolava/AP At the end of his novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer gives us a series of 15 photographs printed on consecutive pages which, when flicked (as in a flickbook) reverse the descent of a man who jumped from one of the twin towers on September 11 2001.

In adopting Proposition 47 on Tuesday by a huge margin, Californians made a statement about the tough-on-crime policies of the last generation that increased prison costs and populations many times over while too often accelerating, rather than reversing, the descent of offenders and often whole communities into cycles of crime and victimization, incarceration and recidivism.

It can press Japan, France, the US, the UK, and other donors who continue to provide almost half of Cambodia's annual budget to take action to reverse the ECCC's descent into quagmire.

But older people who lift weights can slow or reverse that descent, studies show.

Levi's chief executive, Philip Marineau, hired from PepsiCo in 1999 to reverse the company's slide, said this would be the final year of the company's descent.

Others reverse the process.

Reverse: Reverse the audio completely.

Reverse the problem.

Then reverse the direction.

Reverse the wiring.

Reverse the procedure.