Sentences with phrase «perceptible decline»

Gavin A. Schmidt, a climate modeler at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said that the estimated decline in ocean circulation should have produced a perceptible decline in surface temperatures, but that no such dip had yet been measured.

The recent trend for newer «average» wells is one of a perceptible decline in well productivity (lower yields)

There is little perceptible decline in satisfaction among parents in K — 8 schools as their children age, a consistency we would not expect if educational quality simply can not withstand the onslaught of puberty.

Unsurprisingly there has been a perceptible decline in technical quality (clarity of writing, informed analysis) and a shortage of manpower.

Not exact matches

He explores how Methodism grew from a barely perceptible impulse in the Church of England in the 18th century to a foremost expression of Christianity in the modern world; how the mixing of Enlightenment rationality and evangelical enthusiasm resulted in Methodism's perennial doubleness of vision; how the Methodist message was heard, internalized and enacted in a bewildering variety of social and geographic locations; how opposition from Outsiders fostered strength while conflict between insiders fostered weakness; how money was raised, spent and symbolized; how women and racial and ethnic minorities found nourishment in the Methodist message; how the movement managed to circle the globe completely; and finally, how a gaggle of theories about secularization might help us understand Methodism's decline in the latter half of the 20th century.

But as he reveals in his wry account of a recent battery of cognitive tests, his decline, however measured, is perceptible.