Sentence examples for welcome declines from inspiring English sources

14 15 While the growing denormalisation of smoking around children reflected by these trends is welcome, declines in childhood SHS exposure immediately after legislation primarily benefited groups who were at relatively low risk prior to legislation.

The HSCIC figures show a welcome decline in hospital admissions for tuberculosis.

The gradual, welcome decline in the price of oil could be halted and even reversed, however, by the continually rising price of natural gas.

There was a welcome decline in the Italian bond yield – the interest rate the embattled government pays on its debts – which jumped above 7% on Wednesday, the level that triggered bailouts for Ireland, Portugal and Greece.

Labour members had got what they wanted and let their subscriptions lapse.Weak parties also reflect a welcome decline in class conflict in British politics: at the last election the Tories, once recognised as the party of the establishment, made their biggest gains among poorer voters while suffering among the more affluent and educated, who used to be their main supporters.

That seems to be the common theme of many recent news reports about forced migration.After a welcome decline between 2001 and 2005, the number of refugees in the classic sense of people forced to leave their countries because of war or persecution rose in 2007 for the second straight year, mainly because of turmoil in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United Nations reported this week.

The Scottish government said that the results represented "a welcome decline" but that it was "no cause for complacency".

Investors were digesting a slew of economic data, including a welcome decline in weekly jobless claims, improving retail sales and unsurprising January factory orders.

The welcome decline in cases in those two nations means that the trials need to include large numbers of people to determine efficacy.

"Despite the welcome decline in the overall number of stops, the NYPD last year still subjected hundreds of thousands of innocent people to humiliating, intimidating and unjustified stop-and-frisk encounters," NYCLU Executive Director Donna Lieberman said in a statement accompanying the report.

This positive and welcome decline has steadily continued with a geometric mean BLL of 1.41 μg/dL in the U.S. adult population ≥ 20 years of age as measured in the NHANES survey conducted in 2005 2006 (Scinicariello F, unpublished data).