Unfortunately the survey shows that children's health is deteriorating in many areas.
As the company's financial outlook deteriorated, several directors resigned.
We knew that, for the children's sake, we had to prevent our relationship from deteriorating any further.
When the patient ultimately deteriorates, the clinical staff should be supported if they decide that there should be no escalation in care.
When an older person's condition deteriorated, the helpers often had to provide more support.
The incremental mortality risk from climate-change-induced malaria, for example, would be valued differently to, say, the same increase in risk caused by deteriorating medical standards.