Sentence examples for steadily degrading from inspiring English sources

With the average length of unemployment at 40 weeks, a post-war high, the climate for workers is steadily degrading both the skills and prospects of millions of Americans.

She said that in the three weeks since NATO took over command of the operation, "we are steadily degrading Qaddafi's ability to carry out and sustain attacks on his own people and gradually squeezing the regime's forces".

The Luftwaffe had been seriously weakened by four long years of war, and increasing Allied anti-submarine capabilities were steadily degrading the effectiveness of the U-boats.

But because residents did not have the right to manage their land, the forest was steadily degraded by outsiders.

As wheezy mornings steadily degraded my attendance, I remained oblivious of the link to my undesired inconsistency.

Intellectually and emotionally weakened by years of steadily degraded public discourse, we are now two separate ideological countries, LeftLand and RightLand, speaking different languages, the lines between us down.

It criticized the agencies for failing "to clearly characterize changes in Iraq's threat to regional stability and security, taking account of the fact that its conventional military forces steadily degraded after 1990".

UK land has been steadily degraded by 200 years of intensive farming and industrial pollution, warned the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) in a major study of soils.

During the crazy and chaotic years I lived in the forest, my health – both physical and mental – steadily degraded to the point that I knew I would die if I stayed there.

Earlier this year, George Saunders wrote an article for the New Yorker about Donald Trump's election campaign in which he described an America "intellectually and emotionally weakened by years of steadily degraded public discourse", divided into "two separate ideological countries, LeftLand and RightLand, speaking different languages, the lines between us down.

After reviewing about 400 analytical documents written by the intelligence agencies from 1991, after the first gulf war, to 2003, when Mr. Hussein was toppled, the committee unanimously concluded that "the body of assessments showed that Iraqi military capabilities had steadily degraded following defeat in the first gulf war in 1991.