deterioration

Examples of deteriorating

deteriorating

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

The incremental mortality risk from climate-change-induced malaria, for example, would be valued differently to, say, the same increase in risk caused by deteriorating medical standards.
Our study addressed whether there is evidence for progression, potentially deteriorating, over the long-term course of the disorder.
Farmers were not only losing their share, but the water quality was also deteriorating every year due to the increasing use of pesticides.
The tribes, weakened by their deteriorating economic circumstances, needed the state's assistance and became more amenable to its patronage.
Apparently there was a fear that some of the objects were being neglected and, thus, were deteriorating.
The "slow fires" of deteriorating acid paper took 100 years to ravage our print collections.
In addition, there is ample evidence that deteriorating macroeconomic conditions promote trade liberalization.
Presbyacusis is a gradual process and individuals are often unaware that their hearing is deteriorating.
Restrictions on daily living were reinforced by deteriorating public space, a product of abandoned buildings, degraded infrastructure, and the loss of local businesses.
In the deteriorating economy, winners failed to emerge, and the foundation of the growth coalition was fatally undermined.
Migration of skilled health workers contributed significantly in deteriorating access to and quality of care in the region.
When deteriorating health leads to the need for round-the-clock care for frail members, busy working families are often plunged into crisis.
Their main arguments are that it is not ' fair ' that the white community should bear the whole tax burden, and that services are deteriorating.
One reason is deteriorating external circumstances, which lower both the private and communal profitability of investment in the resource base.
Our observations do not support the ideas that nest movements are caused by deteriorating nest quality, or army-ant predation.
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