Sentences with phrase «saw precipitous»

But paradoxically, as the nation moved to integrate and increase the quality of opportunities available to African - American students, Dunbar saw a precipitous decline.

Domestic coal production in Japan saw a precipitous drop over the past 30 years, from an estimated 24 million tons in 1980 to 3.5 million tons in the early 2000s, as the country closed all its coal mines and chose to rely on coal imports to meet its needs.

It is here that we can see a precipitous drop in liquidity, from 3414 t in 2011 to only 1122 t in 2015.

As a result, the past decade has seen a precipitous decline in young evangelical identification with the Republican Party.

Wisconsin, where teachers now have a choice to join a union — thanks to Governor Scott Walker — has seen a precipitous drop in membership.

Independent of these recent initiatives, the number of animals euthanized in shelters has seen a precipitous decline in the past four decades, from around 15 million annually in the 1970's to around 3 million currently, a drop which may be attributed to a host of factors including broader access to and acceptance of spay / neuter, progressive shelter policies, and active adoption efforts.

But that new, thin, salty ice will also melt all that much more easily, so I would think that, when it comes to measuring minimums, we could continue to see precipitous drops for the next few years, even as extent and area continue to recover fairly well for the maximums for a while.

The firm has seen a precipitous decline in both the quantity and quality of business generated by phone book ads.

Kasselman says if such innovations become popular, we might see a precipitous decrease in demand for closet space in the next decade.

Not exact matches

For now, market participants expect the rupiah to continue to face pressure though they don't anticipate the kinds of precipitous declines seen in past years.

While it's a good sign that flu activity is starting to level off, it's a far cry from the precipitous drop in doctor visits typically seen when a busy season starts to come to a close.

After a precipitous decline in hat - wearing during the 1960s, turbans are now rather rarely seen on women in the Western World.»

First off, hat tip to our reader Wayne for digging this one up, but as you can see, Depay's production has taken a precipitous drop since moving to Manchester.

East Greenbush, Rensselaer County's most populous town, is completing a townwide reassessment this year to avoid the precipitous drop in property values that Guilderland saw in 2017.

We see a cocky Tory Party unable to garner a majority in the most precipitous of circumstances.

«It's a precipitous drop,» says Philippe Fauchet, dean of engineering at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, of the 18 % decline his department has seen in international graduate applications as last month's deadlines passed.

I have seen clients that had precipitous drops in the minerals on a hair mineral analysis when doing them daily.

We have not seen such a precipitous drop since the Oscar polls started last Spring.

The latest numbers come from iSuppli, which says the dedicated ebook reader market saw spectacular growth in the last few years, but is now on «an alarmingly precipitous decline.»

Its inaugural exhibition, «See USSR», running until 31st August, showcases some beautiful, art deco - style Intourist posters, such as Alexander Zhitomirsky's iconic «Georgian Military Highway» in which a bright blue, open - topped car rolls merrily along the precipitous mountain road with snowy peaks in the distance.

And, quite disturbingly, with a manifest warming of only 0.8 ºC, we are already seeing effects − such as the precipitous receding of the Arctic sea ice − that are not only dangerous in themselves but also producing positive feedbacks that accelerate the warming.

■ We see the failure of academia and note its precipitous decline in a sense of truthfulness among AGW scientists in proportion to the reality - inspired cognitive dissonance of the confused Climatology belief system.

Some of us see the world's ecological integrity as being in dangerously precipitous decline, and finding answers to what are clearly complex problems is vexing, to say the least.

The previous night had seen the usual precipitous drop in temperature, so the grass in the shade outside the courtyard was just as cold as the the asphalt.

In the last few months in particular, RSS shows a precipitous drop in temperatures not seen in the other two records.

Considering Eversheds PPP in Am Law 100 terms, only Cadwalader, with its precipitous 30.8 percent decline, saw profits fall further last year.

Since that post, we've seen home prices continue to tumble and the precipitous decline of net mortgage equity withdrawals (essentially, the amount of home equity... Continue Reading

Nokia's precipitous market share decline happened so quickly that many supporters never saw it coming.