Quotes About Precipitously

In the earlier centuries the upper and lower social classes engaged in homicide at comparable rates. But as the homicide rate fell, it dropped far more precipitously among the upper classes than among the lower ones, an important social change

All of this happened very quickly, but not suddenly, and not before the appearance of certain omens.

Second, recent polls over there show that the majority of Iraqis want us to leave precipitously.