Sentence examples for steady decay from inspiring English sources

The museums opened in 1968 and survived a steady decay of the neighborhood, before its recent rebound.

Ultimately, the source of it is heat released by the steady decay of radioactive material deep inside the earth.

The heavy taxes he levied steadily impoverished the farming population, and a steady decay in the quality of Mughal government was thus matched by a corresponding economic decline.

For example, their reliability – they are solid materials that don't require maintenance – has led to their use on space probes, where the steady decay of radioactive material warms the thermoelectric material to create electricity.

But the hope that the steady decay might finally be stanched has been set back by the National Guard's resistance toward allowing any work that would stabilize the dilapidated Admiral's Row structures as long as the Guard remains the custodian.

"There's been a steady decay in the competence and the feeling that you're really dealing with scientific peers," said Dr. Van Allen, who with his group at the University of Iowa has sent instruments on mission after mission with NASA over the decades.

Its Executive Director Anne Parsons was among the League's first class of fellows, and we've all seen how much that organization has benefited under her steady, decaying hand.

After the death of Jeroboam II, however, Israel faced a period of continuous disaster; and no prophetic figure was able to arrest the steady internal decay.

Helium is made either by the nuclear fusion process of the Sun, or by the slow and steady radioactive decay of terrestrial rock, which accounts for all of the Earth's store of the gas.

A previous study in yeast revealed that in response to changes in oxygen availability, there is active degradation of specific transcripts that occurs faster than the steady state decay rates [ 66].

We used this figure to estimate the evaporation rate ω of the cVA, assuming a steady linear decay process for the liquid phase (Eq. (11)), which results in a value for ω of 1.3 · 10−4 min−10−4