Sentence examples for a precipitous halt from inspiring English sources

Indeed, in the view of Tom Devine, the legal director of the Government Accountability Project, an organization based in Washington, D.C., that advocates for whistle-blowers, the past eight years have been closer to a "golden age," an era of enlightened reform that has gone largely unnoticed and that Trump's election may soon bring to a precipitous halt.

Silicon Graphics also fell after the company unveiled its second restructuring in less than a year, with plans to spin off its media operations, shed about 1,500 jobs and form an alliance with the Japanese company NEC Corp. Internet stocks managed to halt a precipitous fall in early trading.

Despite increasingly desperate measures to halt a precipitous stock slide, the Chinese government so far has failed to quell growing investor panic.

Led by co-founder Steven P. Jobs, Apple appears to have stabilized its management team, cut costs, made some money, halted a precipitous decline in market share, outlined (at last) a clear path for its Mac operating system, and streamlined and reinvigorated its product lineup.

The listing, designed to provide a barrier to development in areas where koalas are threatened, is aimed at halting a precipitous drop in numbers that has seen the species decline by 40% in Queensland and by one-third in NSW over the past two decades.

But Macri has yet to halt the country's growing inflation, which continues to rise despite declining global consumption and a precipitous drop in Argentines' purchasing power.

It was a precipitous fall.

That would not be a precipitous withdrawal.

A precipitous drop in melatonin levels occurred.

Suddenly, five tumbled down a precipitous slope.

The sentencing marked a precipitous downfall for Mr. Jackson.