Sentence examples for standards declined from inspiring English sources

Health standards declined after independence.

East Asian nations grew relatively quickly, but in the other regions, living standards declined.

Statewide, the percentage of students meeting the standards declined from 44.9percentto44.3percentcent.

All this gave Fannie's executives free rein to underwrite far more loans, further enriching themselves and their shareholders, but at increasing risk to taxpayers as lending standards declined.

The study, published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine, reported that in almost three-quarters of the cases studied, a doctor's performance, based on knowledge and adherence to accepted care standards, declined with time.

After rising marginally last year, the number of students meeting math standards declined this year by 1.9 percentage points, to 30.9percentt, and even more students fell to the lowest of four levels of performance.

While we become more law-abiding, police standards decline.

"It's just another indication of standards declining.

Instead, it is the gradual erosion of support for his party as living standards decline.

Once a centre of Arab learning and an exporter of teachers to the Arab world, Egypt has seen its education standards decline alarmingly.

Millions of people have seen living standards decline; thousands entered a new life of penury and an entire generation had their future made harder.