Sentence examples for contributed to sharp from inspiring English sources

The commission has said that flawed rules for California's deregulated electricity market contributed to sharp price increases and power shortages in 2000 and 2001.

Fears that the trouble would spread and hobble the global economic recovery contributed to sharp falls in stock indexes and the value of the euro.

They said they believed that such advertising had contributed to sharp rises in consumer spending on drugs, one of the fastest-growing items in the nation's health care budget.

Higher prices and a rush to drill new wells have also contributed to sharp inflation in the industry, with exploration and production costs more than doubling in recent years.

Over the past year, Beijing has progressively tightened the spigot on the ample bank lending that has fueled growth but also contributed to sharp increases in property prices and overall consumer prices.

Investigators described the operation as the federal government's most aggressive effort to shut down the so-called pill mills they say have contributed to sharp increases in overdoses and addiction.

The higher fuel prices, along with rising food prices, are contributing to sharp inflation.

The project developers, in turn, have had to reduce their estimates of the number of credits they will receive, contributing to sharp falls in some of their share prices (see chart).On average, IDEAcarbon calculates, if you discount the first wave of big, easy projects, emissions-reduction schemes have yielded only 70% of the expected number of credits.

Preliminary figures suggest that demand for office space in the City during the fourth quarter of 2008 was at or close to a record low, says Neil Prime of Jones Lang LaSalle, a property consultancy.That is contributing to sharp drops in the prices of commercial properties (see chart).

The increase from the rebuilding of merchandise stock is, however, fading and a small contribution from inventories contributed to a sharp slowdown in growth in the second quarter.

To establish a picture of the changes in emergency psychiatry that have contributed to the sharp increase in the number of acute compulsory admissions in the Netherlands since 1992.