Sentence examples for thus declined from inspiring English sources

Shipping through it thus declined into the early years of the 21st century, after which domestic use of it began to increase again.

After obtaining first class honours in 1961, he embarked on a doctoral thesis on the place of the army in Spanish politics between 1830 and 1854, which was abandoned after the university modern history board objected that he had substantially departed from the original proposed scope of 1830 to 1868 and thus declined to examine it.

Advertising revenue thus declined 29%, or $137 million, compared to the fourth quarter of 2009, of which $80.2 million relates to shutdowns of operations in Europe and de-emphasis of "low margin search engine campaign management and lead generation affiliate products" and the absence of revenue from Bebo and ICQ which AOL sold earlier in 2010.

But my daughter, who trains as a gymnast and likes nothing more than to move, was enjoying the sprint, and thus declined her suggestion.

Instead, Hergé was offered employment as a cartoonist for by its editor, the Rexist Victor Matthys; however, Hergé perceived as an explicitly political publication, and thus declined the position.

None of them would return to the Giro in 2009; Gerolsteiner folded in 2008 after being unable to locate a new sponsor while,, and all made it known that they did not wish to participate and were thus declined invitations.

With his last attempt at negotiation thus declined, Archidamus invaded Attica, but found no Athenians there; Pericles, aware that Sparta's strategy would be to invade and ravage Athenian territory, had previously arranged to evacuate the entire population of the region to within the walls of Athens.

Male fitness thus declined at a rate that was 1.52 times faster than females (95% CI = (1.09, 2.19), p = 0.013).