Now they will spend the next decade coming to terms with the steady and inevitable deterioration of their physical abilities.

In essence their class position often forces them into using the environment destructively and inhibits any adaptive response to its inevitable deterioration.

For centuries it has endured here, hanging on against inevitable deterioration, waiting for a Magician of sufficient strength to qualify.

Scanes was one of the minority who had decided to look after his health, to arrest the inevitable deterioration caused by no physical exercise and plentiful food.

The massively invasive technique could slow, but not halt, the inevitable deterioration.

Afterwards it was de-roofed to avoid paying rates on the building, leading to the inevitable structural deterioration.

Yet, when we acquire a brass telescope, it remains a brass telescope despite inevitable deterioration.

Because of the inevitable deterioration of the castings, few Dorfan trains survive today, making them among highly sought after by collectors.

Soon after the civil war the inevitable deterioration started.

Typically, old age is viewed as a period of 'inevitable deterioration' and 'irreversible decline', with older people becoming increasingly frail and sick.