Budget deficits are no excuse for tolerating a dramatic deterioration of the city's appearance and atmosphere.

The most dramatic deterioration has been caused by biological factors.

"Particularly over the course of 1994, we have seen a dramatic deterioration," a senior United States official said of Mexico's drug-control efforts.

To be fair, my dramatic physical and mental deterioration is not entirely London's fault.

"What we got instead," he said, "was the most dramatic fiscal deterioration in our nation's history."

That was a dramatic deterioration from January, when the level of exports to Japan barely changed from a year earlier.

In the weeks before, he had faced sudden and dramatic physical deterioration.

These neighborhoods experience dramatic deterioration.

During 1923, Germany was shaken by adverse international developments and by a dramatic further deterioration in the economic climate: the year was one of crises.

The interweaving of problems and conflicts is such that the EU must pay constant attention in order to avoid a dramatic deterioration of the situation.