Sentence examples for because of a slowdown from inspiring English sources
That loss was higher than analysts had expected because of a slowdown in ad revenue, especially from Internet companies.
That was an improvement from last month, when the government said the outlook was weakening because of a slowdown in overseas economies.
And last quarter it reported a loss of more than $41 million, in large part because of a slowdown in production mostly caused by tightened regulatory oversight.
Fourth-quarter sales volume typically drops off by about 9 percent from the third quarter, because of a slowdown during the holidays.
All developing regions will grow faster than Western Europe and North America, where growth will slacken primarily because of a slowdown in the American economy.
The Index of Leading Economic Indicators declined by 0.1percentt, primarily because of a slowdown in manufacturing and a decline in stock prices, the Conference Board said yesterday.
Already, sales in the United States have been dropping because of an economic slowdown and the weak dollar, which makes euro-denominated French exports more expensive.
But Harris adds that he thinks the Fed won't act on its bias, because evidence of a slowdown in the economy is likely to surface this year.
"Because the cost of a slowdown in growth is so dramatic relative to that of higher inflation, they should follow the risk-management strategy that Greenspan espoused during the last deflation scare," he said.
In 2008, two large firms in San Francisco, Thelen and Heller Ehrman, imploded in part because of a business slowdown.
