Sentence examples for spectre of decline from inspiring English sources

The spectre of decline and fall, he suggests, haunted empire-building from Gibbon's age onwards.

Waving the spectre of decline in the face of the British public does not an economic strategy make, and does not excuse their refusal to talk about growth and jobs all week.

In non-fiction, Edward Luce's Time to Start Thinking: America and the Spectre of Decline (Little, Brown) changed my vision of the American future, and not for the better.

At the same time, 20 empty market units inside the arcade – a sad spectre of decline in an otherwise vibrant corner of London – were filled with creative small businesses that Spacemakers granted a trial period of three months free rent.

Although the lamps market will bring in an estimated thirty-eight billion dollars this year, L.E.D.-bulb makers are already reacting to the spectre of declining sales.

A steep fall in inflation in recent months has also raised the spectre of declining prices, which the ECB must avoid or risk deflation and a fall back into recession.

The awful spectre of invertebrate decline looms over the world, and nature's antagonist isn't a secret organisation, Nazi Germany or Communist Russia, but something far more deadly: man's overconsumption of the planet's resources.

In a Nature commentary that accompanied the Decode study, Kondrashov raised the spectre of an inevitable "decline in the mean fitness of the population".

Sarkozy conjured a spectre of social breakdown and moral decline, playing on public concerns about crime and immigration.

The Federation of Small Businesses in Wales (FSB), which is also giving evidence on Thursday, wants "fairer business rates" and "better planning laws and incentives" such as free or cheap parking to help its 10,000 members and to "rescue Wales' town centres from the spectre of empty shops and further decline".

A SPECTRE is haunting Europe, the spectre of Margaret Thatcher.