Sentence examples for date of contraction from inspiring English sources

"While the clubs would have preferred to contract for 2002 and begin addressing the economic issues immediately," Selig said in a statement, "events outside of our direct control, including yesterday's court decision in Minnesota, have required us to move the date of contraction to 2003".

The committee, created in 1978, has assigned the start and end dates of economic contractions for every business cycle since 1854.

The commissioner did not provide details on how the process of contraction would be carried out, nor did he give a date for when the procedure would be completed.

To date, the most useful classifications of muscle fibers are based on their two major functional characteristics: speed of contraction and the aerobic (oxidative)/anaerobic (glycolytic) production of adenosine triphosphate.

The period of contraction is called systole.

We went through a period of contraction".

These are the dates when GDP figures will be reported for the fourth quarter of 2009 and first quarter of 2010 respectively, and which are both likely to show positive growth after six consecutive quarters of contraction.

That ends a run of seven quarters of contraction.

Management agrees that it must bargain the effects of contraction.

The American film industry was in a period of contraction.

Technically, a recession is two consecutive quarters of contraction.