Here are a couple of illustrations from his first novel, Decline and Fall (1928), just before his conversion to Catholicism.
Myers documents the decline and fall of biofuel plants throughout the northwest.
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Although Mr Ottaway is reluctant to write the prince's political obituary, this is a story with clear elements of decline and fall.
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Like unread copies of The Wealth of Nations or The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, they are tossed into the trash bin.
It is less than ideal, but people opposed to expansion should ask themselves if they really want the alternative - loss of business to another airport in Europe that is prepared to expand, with the resulting loss of jobs, economic decline, and fall in house prices that would follow.
As a result of these cuts, the chief Medicare actuary expects benefits to decline and enrollment to fall by half in the next 10 years.
As share prices fall, margins decline and revenues may fail to cover fixed costs.
Stocks fell nevertheless directly after the news, with the Nikkei index registering an almost 2% decline, and futures indicating another 3 % decline for a total 5% fall.
As historian of science Stanley Jaki spent his life documenting, the pagan world view was one of endless cycles, of oscillations, of rise and fall, golden ages of glory, bronze ages of decline, iron and stone ages of despair, with no genuine permanent progress.
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But if productivity growth suddenly increases, workers are initially happy with the previous pace of real wage gains, so unit labour costs decline, allowing both unemployment and inflation to fall.
If the private sector rebounds of its own accord, unemployment will fall and budget deficits will decline.
Prices factored in expectations that outstanding values would decline and the bonds' weighted average lifetimes would fall short of their official maturity dates.
DeMark concludes by saying that the rally will come to an end shortly after the New Year and fall apart leading to the same percentage decline.
By the 1970s, rail travel was in deep decline, and Amtrak was founded in an attempt to arrest its fall.
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That would be the sharpest fall since the Depression, and the first decline in trade since a small dip in 1982.
The survey found that 18% of firms saw orders rise, while 34% recorded a fall, and manufacturers also said that the decline in export orders increased.
Conversely, in a falling market, the shorts should fall faster than the market and the long decline less than the market, again providing profits within the hedge.
Thus Advantage will become the only entitlement for which real spending will fall slightly year over year and continue to decline, even as health costs rise and more people join the program.
It however witnessed a slight fall in 2009 on account of decline in value sales and exports value.
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The scale of Spanish sales decline and line disconnections paints a picture of an economy in a free fall.
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There has been a decline in the number of stillbirths, with the steepest fall between 1979 and 1983.
The E is relatively high now, and if earnings decline, which is very possible, stock prices could fall.
The decline was the first since 2003, a sharp fall from a month ago and a wide miss on expectations.
He now says Britain's performance should be judged against the worst global downturn since 1975 and a fall in global trade last year, the first annual decline since 1982.
He believes the decline in marriage is largely down to a sharp fall in the earning power and job prospects of non-college educated American men, many of whom now lack the means to get married, leaving their offspring "doubly disadvantaged" - lacking both assets and a stable home.
The decline was bigger than the 0.4 percent drop expected in markets and the steepest fall since 2009, when the global economy was in its deepest recession since World War II.
The decline of residential sales by value in China narrowed in May to 9.1% from a year earlier compared with a fall of 13% in April, and moderated to a 17% decline on an on-month basis from 23% in April.
Thus the final score card could read as follows: higher tax rates, lower upper class income and public revenues that fall short of estimated targets, even if they do not decline in absolute amount.
The Nikkei's 7.3% fall was the steepest one-day decline since 2011 in the wake of the tsunami and nuclear crises.
Among them, Beijing and Shanghai saw property prices fall 0.4%, while Nanjing saw the largest decline, a 0.7% monthly move.
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