He found himself making fewer checks on vehicles, and overall he knew the stress was decreasing his effectiveness as a patrolman.

Weathering is usually confined to the top few meters of geologic material, because physical, chemical, and biological stresses generally decrease with depth.

Commerce and revenue will increase; pollution and stress will decrease.

It is observed that the peak stress decreases with temperature.

The stress associated with Brown's acid-reflux condition could not have decreased.

"But as gravitational stresses decrease, so does the distortion effect on the cruisers' sensors."

The additional stress of overvoltage on motors will decrease motor lifetime.

So generally the critical stress will decrease with imposed strain rate.

Insomnia is often simply a response to a stressful situation and should disappear as the stress decreases.

Bending stress decreases from the maximum at the face layers to nearly zero at the central layer.