Walter Kirn

A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.

American Novelist

Jim Nantz

As my father went through a really, really long and dark period of his health declining and falling deeper into the abyss, I knew I was never going to let my family and my children experience this without any long-term care.

American Entertainer

Rush Limbaugh

I reject the notion that America is in a well-deserved decline, that she and her citizens are unexceptional. I do not believe America is the problem in the world. I believe America is the solution to the world's problems.

Sonny Mehta

It seems the world of book publishing is constantly changing. Whether it was the rise of chain stores or their decline, or the digital revolution... fortunately, we have been able not only to adapt but to thrive.

Indian Editor

Vinessa Shaw

Coming to know one another based on a shared humanity through dialogue is the key to breaking down the walls of isolation and reversing the decline of life-to-life bonds among human beings.

American Actress

Erica Jong

I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to somewhere life is cheaper.

Morrissey

Each year of life brings us nearer to our decline, but I will continue to seek a listener until I'm dead in a ditch.

English Musician

Talulah Riley

Along with issues like global warming, I think a problem with the world today is population decline.

English Actress

Thomas Babington Macaulay

As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.

British Poet

Lisa Joy

At first, 'Westworld' was a project we had declined to do.

American Director

Often implies a slow or gradual process, not sudden.

Slow Change

Used to talk about something becoming less positive or desirable.

Negative Progression

Commonly used in business or economics to describe downward trends.

Business Context

Often used to turn down offers or invitations politely and formally.

Polite Rejection

More formal than 'say no', and often found in written correspondence.

Formal Context

Suggests movement from a better to a worse state, condition, or period.

Positive to Negative

Often used to describe the fall of civilizations, empires, and societies.

Historical Usage

Usually refers to a gradual deterioration of someone’s physical condition.

Health Status

Can convey a gradual and not easily noticeable worsening of health or ability.

Subtle Deterioration

 But this similarity won't last long. One of the populations is rapidly growing, while the other is slowly declining. What can this tell us about the two countries? Population statistics are some of the most important data social scientists and policy experts have to work with. But understanding a country's situation

Population pyramids:...

 still do not know what's causing it, but what we do know is that, with the declining numbers of bees, the costs of over 130 fruit and vegetable crops that we rely on for food is going up in price. So honeybees are important for their role in the economy as well as in agriculture.

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 That makes our bodies go into a decline, which eventually results in disease and death. But if that's consistently true, why the huge variance in aging patterns and lifespan within the animal kingdom? The answer lies in several factors, including environment and body size.

Why do animals have such...

 Through our understanding of this relationship between brightness and decline rate, we can use these supernovae to probe distances up to several billions of light years away. But why is it important to see such distant objects anyway?

Light seconds, light...

 determined and when she told me what she had I respectfully declines and I told her what you have is not relief items you have stuff well and she basically came back and said look you know I'm really upset about

The dark side of...

 Although Roman culture was never fully lost, its influence declined and new art styles arose focused on religious symbolism and allegory rather than proportion and realism. This shift extended to architecture

A brief history of goths...

 plus mitochondria regulate many different cell activities and play an important role in programmed cell death. If mitochondrial function declines, then cells and, later on, whole organs, deteriorate, too.

Why do our bodies age? -...

 without a whole set of preconceptions what I had to do is is think of ways of presenting vultures to the world they're the fastest declining birds in history they're the fastest declining family of

Vultures - Photographing...

 this fast and sudden decline has made it one of our rarest mammals here in the uk but here in devon a group of ecologists are aiming to reverse that decline and bring the waterfall back from the

Saving Water Voles From...

 have this kind of places in the world yeah we should keep it in a situation where i thought maybe i'd be coming here and we kind of follow a sad declining story of an animal that's

Decline

Slow Change

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