Sentence examples for contraction in the current from inspiring English sources

Economists say they expect Japan to have an even more severe contraction in the current quarter, ending in December, as spooked American consumers and businesses cut back even further on spending.

A Reuters poll last week predicted a 0.3percentt contraction in the current period with no return to growth until the second quarter of next year.

The think tank said the rate of contraction seen in the current recession was "very similar" to the slowdown at the beginning of the 1980s.

Assessing large-scale relationships of populations should elucidate the importance of range expansions and contractions in producing the current distribution patterns of species, as well as generate hypotheses regarding the genetic structure and diversity of temperate tree lineages affected by glaciation in the latter part of the Cenozoic.

The Russian economy, which seesaws from boom to bust along with commodity prices in the best of times, has experienced the most extreme swing from growth to contraction of any large economy in the current downturn.

Finally, although CRD can trigger contraction of the anal sphincter, and contraction of this sphincter also induces brain fMRI activity, in the current study external anal sphincter contraction was not measured but the level of fMRI activity was likely identical in both CORT and CHOL-treated rats in response to CRD.

In the current study, three different contraction speeds, namely 45, 22.5 and 15% MVC/s, were employed in the ramp contraction.

Related to the variational inequalities, we have the problem of finding fixed points of nonexpansive mappings or strict pseudo-contractions, which is the current interest in functional analysis.

The possible causes of the ensuing stock market plunge and steep contraction in the economy provide fodder for just about everyone in the current political debate.

If the economy shrank again in the current quarter, Germany would technically be in recession, defined as two quarters of contraction.

In South Africa, despite differences in the current spatial extent, Midgley et al. projected areas of future mediterranean biome contraction and stability in similar areas as our analysis [15].