Sentence examples for slow descent and from inspiring English sources

Key to everything is the "verge and foliot," a clever mechanism right inside the clock that maintains the weights' slow descent and the keeping of time.

Two levers were supposed to be pulled when the spacecraft reached Mach 1.4, allowing an action called "feathering" -- which lifts the tail to slow descent and create drag.

Life is a slow descent into bankruptcy and despair precipitated by the extortion of capitalists and landowners benefitting from chance acquisition.

He returned to France where, officially separated from his wife and son and missing Rimbaud, who had gone abroad, his life became a slow descent into poverty and alcoholism.

His slow descent to decrepitude and death can be observed by following him on Twitter, @garwboy.

Chapters on the western and eastern fronts chart the slow descent into mutual slaughter and operational stalemate.

After making what she termed "a slow descent into respectability" – marriage and children in Virginia Water – she forced the National Archives to release the transcripts of her Old Bailey evidence.

The Da Vinci model, which has more in common with sail technology than with the modern-day parachute, made such a smooth and slow descent that the two accompanying parachutists had to brake twice to stay level with it.

Honolulu hurt by the drop in buyers from Asia and California, is beginning a long and slow descent, with real estate prices forecast to drop 31% before hitting bottom in 2011.

For the portal vein, the TDC had a rapid ascent and slow descent.

In the distance, two empty lifts rise and fall, out of time with each other, as they make their way towards the roof, then begin a slow descent, disappearing into the shafts and continuing down to the ground floor.