Sentence examples for crunch forces from inspiring English sources

Commercial rents are increasing and pushing up the CPI as the credit crunch forces people to rent.

Some pilots and others argue that the crunch forces charters to cut corners on maintenance and pilot training and give in to fat-cat clients who demand that flights proceed even in unsafe weather.

The credit crunch forced Montgomery into tough negotiations with his lenders in 2008.

But the loans dried up in the last credit crunch, forcing the government to rescue the program.

As the credit crunch forced them to cut their positions, they tried to sell the same shares at once.

Last summer it made an approach to Virgin Media before the credit crunch forced the cable firm to take itself off the market.

The firm's joint chief executive, Henning Kagermann, said recently he had "never witnessed such a sharp decline in customer spending in such a short time".Is the credit crunch forcing firms to retrench directly?

Council leaders at the authorities have been arguing that they should be able to provide greater access to financial services since the credit crunch forced lenders to reduce their range of home loans.

At least 1.5 million mortgage customers are estimated to be better off than they were before the credit crunch forced the Bank of England to slash interest rates to try to stave off recession.

In 2006, as the market neared its peak, the proportion of housing transactions funded by mortgages hit 76% Imla said, but tighter lending criteria after the credit crunch forced out some would-be buyers and the figure fell to 65% in 2008.

Wynn rival Las Vegas Sands, mired in debt on soft revenues at its Las Vegas properties, said earlier Thursday it was in talks with a syndicate of banks to raise between $1.5 billion and $2.0 billion to finance its projects in Macau, and will lay off as many as 11,000 construction workers there after a cash crunch forced it to halt construction on multibillion dollar projects there.