Sentence examples for tale of decline from inspiring English sources

No doubt Ballmer and others share some blame for this tale of decline, if not yet fall.

In the town hall, the mayor of Vidin, a small town near the Serbian and Romanian borders, recounts a sad tale of decline.

Yet for the past few decades, theirs has been another sorry tale of decline: numbers are down by half since the previous BTO Atlas survey 20 years ago.

The sorry tale of decline is repeated in industrial and manufacturing towns across the EU, where the economic crisis of the last five years has finished off communities that were already losing their place in the new global economic order.

It was accompanied by "Zaireanisation --affirmative action on the face of it, in reality a distribution of jobs and opportunities for bribery to Mr Mobutu's cronies.Heart attack of darknessVisit the once prosperous mines of Shaba, run by the state-owned company, Gecamines, and all you hear is a tale of decline.

Sadly, the tales of decline are not hard to find and they sound very similar.

No one, however, is more thrilled than the residents of Thomson itself.The village's history is typical of many towns in the heartland, where tales of decline are common as corn.

Because of this sparkling first paragraph, we begin "The Bear Came Over the Mountain" thinking that it will be a story about a young woman's growth, rather than the tale of her decline (albeit a decline that includes a final unexpected love affair).

This tale of the decline and fall of the house of Salina, a family of Sicilian aristocrats, first appeared in 1958, but it reads more like the last 19th-century novel, a perfect evocation of a lost world.

Amid tales of declining troop morale or of soldiers assuming draining humanitarian duties, America's volunteer humanitarian force -- the Peace Corps -- has been notably absent in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Partly, this development is underpinned by a familiar tale of agricultural decline.