Sentence examples for almost plunged from inspiring English sources

The credit crunch almost plunged the world into depression.

Just days after the tragic death of a Texas firefighter, Shannon Stone, who fell to his death at a Rangers game, and on the day of his emotional funeral, a fan almost plunged 20 feet at the home run derby, saved by friends who grabbed his feet.

Alex came over first, almost plunging aboard, and the others followed.

In 2007, Kibaki and his thugees unleashed such violence against the civilian population that 1500 Kenyans were killed and some 600 hundred thousand displaced, almost plunging Kenya into civil war.

No one knows this better than Marius Kloppers, the South African who became chief executive of BHP Billiton in October 2007 and almost immediately plunged the global mining business into turmoil by launching a $190 billion bid for Rio Tinto.

He was almost immediately plunged into writing white papers, creating industry award entries, developing and delivering a pitch that won the British Library as a client and working with national print and broadcast journalists - all while he was still a student.

Their children, Christopher and his sister, Kate, then 19, were almost immediately plunged into more than a decade of Dickensian legal battles involving the executors of the Rothko estate and the Marlborough Gallery in Manhattan, which were ultimately fined millions for their roles in the scandal.

After a century of humiliation at the hands of outsiders, China finally regained self-determination in 1949, only to almost immediately plunge itself into a 30-year nightmare that caused more deaths and damage than anything ever inflicted by foreigners.

The necessary cuts will almost certainly plunge the economy back into contraction, exacerbating the pain for the 20% of Spaniards who find themselves without jobs.This dynamic is one reason European leaders ought to be thinking harder about an economic aid package for southern Europe, rather than just a financial aid package.

They had to turn to the right, and then make ten or fifteen steps forward, but they got there so quickly that, losing their balance, they almost went plunging downwards: they were standing at the edge of an enormous pit, approximately three metres wide and five long, at the bottom of which they glimpsed Grigorescu as he worked, deliberately.

The deal only extended funds for government agencies until Jan . 15and suspended the debt limit until Feb. 7. The White House and Congress will almost immediately plunge into a new round of talks -- and face the threat of another shutdown.