Sentence examples for buoyant figures from inspiring English sources

The buoyant figures come after John Lewis enjoyed a record-breaking Christmas, boosted by strong sales of kettles, coffee machines and iPads.

Persimmon's strong results follow similarly buoyant figures from Bovis Homes yesterday as housebuilders reap the rewards of less stringent lending by banks and rising house prices.

Based on the past mix of funding India has favoured, it probably needs about $40 billion of FDI a year to avoid a balance-of-payments scare.Given last year's buoyant figures, surely India can relax?

However, behind the overall buoyant figures it emerged that the Asia Pacific region saw a 29% year-on-year decrease in operating profit last year, showing that the M&C Saatchi recovery is not yet complete.

But academics and policy experts said the buoyant figures masked some unhealthy trends, with wide gaps in participation and a worrying fall in the number of young men applying to university compared with women.

The buoyant figures were at odds with reports from business groups suggesting sales were strong again for the US-style Black Friday event but that trade earlier in the month was soft, partly because mild weather had hurt winter clothing sales.

However Atul Kumar, Company Theatre's artistic director – a sleek, buoyant figure, his fingernails bright pink from the Holi festival, which finished the previous day – proves invigorating company.

Mr. Felici, a buoyant figure with a shaved head and two earrings, like Mr. Clean, bounces from table to table, pouring wine and jollying his guests along.

Later, Léger developed a more humanist repertoire of heavy-but-buoyant figures, working and playing together, with a sequence of builders on girders; safe, graceful, optimistic, but tough, and never simply jolly.

Low personal approval ratings have kept the president away from the most competitive swing states this election but, in a series of last-minute speeches to more sympathetic audiences in Maine and Rhode Island, Obama is attempting to build a more positive narrative by focusing on buoyant GDP figures.

America's latest, buoyant, GDP figures are misleading.