inevitable decline

collocation in English

meaningsofinevitableanddecline

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inevitable
adjective
uk
/ɪˈnev.ɪ.tə.bəl/us
/ˌɪnˈev.ə.t̬ə.bəl/
certain to happen and unable to be avoided ...
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decline
noun[S or U]
uk
/dɪˈklaɪn/us
/dɪˈklaɪn/
when something becomes less in amount, importance, quality, ...
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(Definition ofinevitableanddeclinefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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There would be no catastrophic collapse, just slow,inevitabledecline.
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This limits treatment options, reinforces the 'inevitabledecline' model of ageing, and constructs need as dislocated from the elder women's social and historical context.
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In these writings, later life is identified as a period of opportunities, not ofinevitabledeclineand dependency.
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It wondered about whether, when fiction described musical careers, was it always in terms of theinevitabledeclinein artistic creativity and of the triumph of corporate logic?
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The phenomenological perspective challenges the deterministic biomedical model of disease progression in which dementia is characterised as aninevitabledeclinein cognitive function and the development of associated behaviour problems.
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The young athletes in our study were highly sensitised to the biological dimensions of ageing, and their summary view was that it would be a process ofinevitabledecline.
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In anticipation of the decline of marginal return on exploiting the rent, the state and individuals undertook a strategy of diversification to insure against the rent'sinevitabledecline.
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One of its essential elements - namely, the disappearance of the sacred and of its ritual function in theatre - is a result of the obvious and probablyinevitabledeclineof religion.
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There will be aninevitabledeclinein everyone's living standards for two or three years.
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I am not certain whether it is promotion or theinevitabledecline.
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I foresaw a scenario ofinevitabledeclinein the world with aid as a minor mitigating factor only of relief.
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It is rather that its arrival providentially rescues our country from theinevitabledeclinewhich would follow a chronic and sustained coal shortage.
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There was a slow andinevitabledeclinewhich had to follow, having an enormous share of world markets.
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There will be aninevitabledecline, therefore, in transport services.
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It is urgent that we all consider just what we can do to accept responsibility for our health to prevent this seeminglyinevitabledecline.
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It was due to the changing world and to industrialisation in different parts of the world, and was aninevitabledecline.
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By means of enlightened social policy, people accepted theinevitabledeclinein their living standards and the consequent increase in taxation.
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Locally, we are not willing to resign ourselves toinevitabledecline.
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