Instead, the index declined three times more steeply than others.

It extends steeply to a height of above sea level.

The space rises so steeply, and so dramatically, and so quickly.

World cereal stocks being low, world cereal prices are rising steeply.

The depletion of capital on the dairy farms is rising steeply.

The central valley rises steeply to the south west, west and north.

Further trouble in the form a steeply declining economy is something it cannot afford.

The management standards and acceptable levels of repayment for credit programmes have risen steeply.

The land dips steeply to the north and the west where, before 1785, the river Sutlej ran.

The total tax burden on families also includes sales taxes, which are steeply regressive, and property taxes, which are progressive.

Wherever you look, stairways climb steeply like ladders, or descend into dark, putrid chasms and slimy porticos, dank and liceinfested.

Lo and behold, for the first time in a generation, deaths from malaria in Africa began to fall (steeply in some places).

The focal mechanism for this earthquake, shown below, indicates compression, along either a shallowly west dipping or a steeply east dipping fault.

Having steeply increased lending in the wake of the 1983 debt crisis, IMF and the World Bank are now in a repayment mode.

Approximately two thirds of the land in the Territory is steeply sloping and is very difficult to reach because of the absence of roads.

This changes what's called the horizon of the agent, which is when things are steeply discounted, we care more about achieving rewards right now.

Commercial shrimp farming began in the 1970s, and production grew steeply, particularly to match the market demands of the United States, Japan and Western Europe.

Third, we face steeply rising prices for fossil fuels, as developing countries growth drives up demand and conventional supplies of coal, oil, and gas are depleted.

But EU leaders have yet to admit what everybody knows that Europe s population is not just ageing, it is starting to decline, and is likely to decline steeply in coming decades.

Moreover, the strategic balance to Europe s east will also be transformed, because the populations of Russia and the Ukraine are expected to decline even more steeply than those of the EU.

The Powell Hyde (Line 60) line runs north and steeply uphill from a terminal at Powell and Market Streets, before crossing the California Street line at the crest of the hill.

It can't be attributed to a decline in the murder rate, because the murder rate has not declined nearly so steeply as the red line on that graph has gone down.

Beginning with the PROALCOOL programme, with its incentives for the expansion of alcohol production, sugar cane production in Brazil rose very steeply in only 10 years, or within two full plantation cycles.

Revolutions tend to confront new governments with steeply rising social demands (for wage increases and higher welfare spending, for example) at a time of capital flight, financial turmoil, and deep disruptions of production.

Owing to a steeply declining birth rate and falling life expectancy largely the result of poor diet, widespread smoking, and alcohol abuse Russia's population is contracting by nearly a million people per year.

In forward scattered light the brightness of the main ring begins to decrease steeply at (just inward of the Adrastean orbit) and reaches the background level at just outward of the Adrastean orbit.

95. The value of UNHCR apos s purchases increased steeply from 43 million in 1990 to 190 million in 1991 and is expected to remain between 150 and 200 million for the foreseeable future.

The surplus on the current account of the central government operations which declined steeply from EC 2.18 million to just EC 0.73 million in 1991, was estimated to have risen to EC 3.44 million in 1992.

And yet, at the same time that we continue to execute about the same number of people every year, the number of people who we're sentencing to death on an annual basis has dropped rather steeply.

Owing to a steeply declining birth rate and falling life expectancy largely the result of poor diet, widespread smoking, and alcohol abuse Russia's population is contracting by nearly a million people per year. Little, if anything, is being done to stem the demographic crisis, and it cannot be resolved by a higher birth rate alone (although this is obviously an important factor).