Sentence examples for sinking into decline from inspiring English sources

Perhaps what we're watching is the new iteration of a very old story: a 21st-century version of an ancient tale of a great imperial power, perhaps the greatest ever – the "lone superpower" – sinking into decline.

Perhaps what we're watching is the new iteration of a very old story: a twenty-first-century version of an ancient tale of a great imperial power, perhaps the greatest ever -- the "lone superpower" -- sinking into decline.

During the 17th century, following wars with the Cossacks and the Swedish and Russian invasions (which were accompanied by devastating epidemics), the region sank into decline.

The building struggled to survive by becoming a home to bohemian (a k a unmarried working) women, but it soon sank into decline.

Yahoo sank into decline because it stuck with an outdated purpose.

Successive waves of enlargement have injected new life into societies and labour markets across old Europe that were in danger of sinking into elegant, arthritic decline.Freedom to trade has also brought huge benefits.

By this time, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison were dead, the Beatles had broken up, the Rolling Stones were wearing their cynicism on their (album) sleeves, Bob Dylan was off somewhere being gnomic and incomprehensible, Sly Stone was sinking into hard-drug decline, and radical idealism was sprawled bleeding outside Kent State university or locked up with the Black Panthers.

But the uptick in inflation reported Friday, caused primarily by a rise in prices for food, alcohol and tobacco, could quiet those who have argued that the euro zone is in danger of sinking into deflation, a sustained decline in prices that can be even more destructive than inflation because it is so hard to reverse.