Or just slow, relentless, terminal decline.

More startling, however, has been the relentless decline in long-term market rates, or sovereign bond yields.

The relentless decline has become a mirror of Europe's economic weakness and political disunity.

The beleaguered euro continued its relentless decline yesterday as the impact of that currency's weakness spread across the American corporate landscape, cutting into sales and profits.

No small wonder the state of the union is in a relentless decline.

We are at the peak of oil production and when it starts its relentless decline, our economic whoes will get unimaginably worse.

However, we have found few indications of any change in the relentless economic decline of areas such as Merseyside or Belfast.

Jena watched the relentless decline of her sister's appearance and wondered which morning it would be that Cindy would not awaken.

Then again, what pleasure can there be for any journalist in watching the relentless decline of all print newspaper sales?

The question of what causes Alzheimer's intrigues researchers hoping to find simple ways to prevent the disease, whose relentless mental decline afflicts four million Americans.