Sentence examples for a sharp swing from inspiring English sources

Nomura benefited from solid demand for mutual funds from retail investors encouraged by an increase in equity markets and booked a ¥148.5 billion gain from its trading operations, a sharp swing from a ¥21 billion loss a year earlier.

Even so, his election was a sharp swing of the pendulum.

Michigan, with 16 electoral votes, also saw a sharp swing away from Republicans.

But when we meet, what was once a sharp swing is now watered down to being less than a drift.

A new Gallup poll of independent voters showed a sharp swing from Mr Nader to Mr Gore.

The arguments for "continuity New Labour" or for a sharp swing left each ignore part of this challenge.

The yuan fell by more than 1% against the dollar within a week, a relatively sharp swing for the Chinese currency.

Then on Thursday, the announcement of the embargo by Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin caused a further sharp swing — prices hit their upper limits on all three of the exchanges where wheat futures are traded in the United States, in Chicago, Kansas City and Minneapolis.

The golden touch of City chequebooks has extended far beyond London, causing, for example, astonishing rises in the cost of holiday homes in favoured resorts on the coast of Cornwall in the south-west.When Mr Blair pulled off an historic third-term victory in 2005, southern voters were grumpier: there was an unexpectedly sharp swing against Labour in constituencies around the capital.

For them, a sharp, unexpected swing in the market can be disastrous.

These moves will be portrayed by some as simply a sharp liberal swing of the American pendulum after the equal and opposite conservative lurch of the Bush years.