Sentence examples for as its peak from inspiring English sources

This might well stand as its peak – its red giant moment, a sign that it's operating at full stretch and will soon collapse in on itself, exhausted.

If so, those years before the crash will not be remembered as the flowering of the environmental movement, but as its peak.

The percentage of homicides solved by the department is up over all -- not as high as its peak of 88percentt in 1997, but well above the national average.

Not only are these new towers casting long shadows on Central Park; they are turning the New York skyline, for most of the 20th century a kind of ziggurat with the Empire State Building as its peak, into a jumble.

Those industries are growing along with the city's population, which reached 636,000 in 2012 — not as high as its peak of 800,000 in 1950, but up more than 3 percent since 2010.

It also fears that the jobless rate will reach 10.5% in 2010, virtually as high as its peak in the early 1990s.Such forecasts may seem gloomy, but the experience of other countries that have had big banking crises suggests grounds for pessimism.

Violence between the security forces and Islamist militants is not nearly as intense as at its peak in the mid-1990s buthehe blood still flows.

ACCURACY The gap between executive pay and worker compensation has been on the rise, but is not as great as at its peak in 2000, said Kevin J. Murphy, a professor at the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California.

While the service continued and had a core bunch of people using it, by no means was it as rabid as it was at its peak.

Perhaps the ultimate mass market product was the Ford Model T. Selling for as little as $260, at its peak half of all cars on US roads were Fords.

I was teaching people about the Detroit sound as it was at its peak, but I was also learning and hearing things that weren't coming to Detroit".