Subtle suggestions of inevitable decline may be seen on the right.

Old age was a phase of irrevocable and inevitable decline.

Those who continue to harp on the inevitable decline of the novel ought to hold off for a while.

Then, he says, investors should sell, trying to get out before the inevitable decline.

"There's no inevitable decline with aging," he said in an interview.

But this cannot go on forever, and at least the international aspects of our inevitable decline are already in motion.

Any reduction in them produces the inevitable economic decline.

They also raised doubts about how government officials have used the current period of plenty to prepare for an inevitable decline.

Coping with this inevitable decline can prove quite problematic for some people.

If this happens there will be an inevitable decline in leisure boating.