Sentence examples for substantive decline from inspiring English sources

In October 2012, Goldman published a closely related paper in Public Opinion Quarterly arguing "that the Obama campaign produced a significant and substantive decline in white racial prejudice".

We do not observe a significant or substantive decline in work inside the family at the minimum age in any of the countries.

Especially for men, fewer moved into employment a year later and there was a substantive decline, from 25to16%6 %, in the proportion of non-employed graduates who moved into graduate jobs.

Fructose from added sugars reached a peak in 1999 and has been in substantive decline in the intervening 13 years; thus, there has been no causal relationship with obesity for over a decade.

Ukrainian Paralympic committee head Valeriy Sushkevich told Reuters after the meeting that it was "profound, long and substantive", but declined to give further comment.

Mr. de Blasio offered little in the way of a substantive answer, declining to articulate an alternative way to pay for the plan, dismissing signs that the governor is leery of raising taxes, and concluding, blandly: "We have to focus on the positive notion that this is what the people of New York City want".

And officials of the Port Authority and Bombardier declined substantive comment, even on the nature and purpose of the train's test runs, citing the pending investigations.

The New York court said Facebook had raised "novel and important substantive issues," but declined to review the case further, backing up the lower court's denial of the challenge and calling it "nonappealable".

Certainly, Mr. Romney will win his fair share of independent voters because of the economy — and if there are substantive signs of economic decline in October and November, probably enough to win him the election.

Half of the legal actions that Pruitt joined against the E.P.A. have been either dismissed on jurisdictional grounds or declined on substantive ones.

Dewey declined to offer substantive answers to the traditional questions posed by these theories, arguing that no fixed ends or moral rules could be adequate in a world of constant change and plural and conflicting values.