Sentence examples for the decline of it from inspiring English sources

Although unfamiliar to most Americans, the story of Idina — like that of Joss — has long exerted a magnetic pull on the English imagination, assuming the proportions of a kind of moral parable about the extravagances of the British aristocracy and the decline of it and the Empire in the wake of the two great wars of the 20th century that transformed the global map.

I can contribute to society or I can partake in the decline of it.

Whether or not this says something about the decline of civilisation, it's certainly a tribute to the modern literary phenomenon that is Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler.

Her speech was a ringing declaration in a fateful public debate in Sophocles' day about the decline of religion; it was not a private opinion.

Just as proximity makes people think that Las Vegas is the principal cause of the decline of Lake Mead, it also makes them think that any further decline in the lake will be a problem mainly, or even only, for Las Vegas.

Crowdsourced services like Waze and Wikipedia have managed to do this successfully, but as Wikipedia's declining number of editors shows (see "The Decline of Wikipedia"), it's not easy to keep this up over time.

It could be that the decline of unions made it easier for companies to lay off workers more rapidly, though Shaw notes that union contracts often contain mechanisms for instituting temporary layoffs.

"It'll be an agonising process, like the decline of the Roman Empire; it'll take decades.

While gillnet mortality was clearly a primary cause of the decline of this population, it was probably not the only factor leading to its demise.

The decline of 33% made it the biggest faller in the FTSE 250 this afternoon.

While this switch may slow the decline of polar bears, it's not great news for the geese.