Sentence examples for steadily behind from inspiring English sources

The realm fell steadily behind, century by century; it became impoverished, backward and prey to the caprices of nature.

When it resumed, she fell steadily behind and eventually failed to qualify for the run-off by less than one-10th of one percentage point.

I felt the pulse of their lives steadily behind me.

But when she looked up from her basket, she found him snowplowing steadily behind her.

He told jurors Mr. Busch was holding the hammer steadily behind his head.

I did not dare turn to see where my pursuer was, but I heard his big feet hitting the ground steadily behind me.

As these female sports executives slowly and steadily make behind-the-scenes changes on the business side, a more visible trend unfolds: Sports managers and marketers are realizing that women hold powerful sway when it comes to buying game tickets, watching games on TV and buying sports-related merchandise.

But with the synthesizers steadily pulsating behind her, at least she's still inviting listeners to dance.

Two Dollar Guitar includes Mr. Shelley on drums, steadily tapping behind Tim Foljahn's ruminations on betrayal and collapse.

"Without that agreement and that trust between reporter and source, the real news simply dries up, and the whole truth steadily recedes behind a wall of image-mongering, denial and even outright lies".

Indeed, the Harvard Business School-trained South African said that adopting this glass-half-full, optimistic approach suggests there are numerous opportunities for new technologies to flourish among 900 million Africans who have steadily lagged behind the rest of the developed world so far.