Sentence examples for as it slumped from inspiring English sources
The Philippine government introduced measures to prevent banks from speculating against the peso as it slumped to the fourth successive record low this week in response to a political corruption scandal.
Major stock market averages moved lower yesterday, dragged down by financial service and bank stocks and by a big decline in Microsoft, as it slumped on reports that it remained far from any agreement to settle the government's antitrust lawsuit.
Royal Bank of Scotland has defended plans to pay £588m in staff bonuses despite suffering an £8.24bn loss in 2013 as it slumped into the red for the sixth successive year.
Since last June a barrel of Brent crude has more than halved in value, dropping by more than $60 – that's a shot in the arm for global GDP of 1.2 percentage points, or $800bn£528bnbn) more economic activity in the world – as it slumped to below $50 this week, including a renewed tumble to less than $49 on Friday.
This multi-staged internment history is best understood in terms of the continual reworking of Units 2 and 3 due to the gradual erosion of the cave floor as it slumps toward floor drains in the chamber (the geological process explained above).
Keep your back as flat as possible instead of letting it slump and get rounded.
What you're looking at is both a mood and a time of war, as it seems: watchlights, slumped bodies, industrial compounds, a cottage seen through a viewfinder, blazing buildings, a sepia photograph of a grandma and child in some other long-ago summer.
ABB, a Swiss-Swedish builder of heavy machinery and electric power systems, is selling assets to pay off debt as it grapples with slumping demand for its products and mounting costs of asbestos-related suits.
The Zurich-based ABB, a Swiss-Swedish builder of heavy machinery and electric power systems, is selling assets to pay off debt as it grapples with slumping demand for its products and mounting costs of asbestos-related lawsuits.
Reuters Group, the provider of financial news and information, posted its first loss as a public company as sales slumped and it paid for cutting jobs.
The Dutch chemical and drug maker Akzo Nobel said fourth-quarter profit fell 14percentt as sales slumped, and it said this year would be challenging as the company faces rising raw material costs.
