Sentence examples for down the contraction from inspiring English sources

To mitigate this fiscal pressure and slow down the contraction of the labor force, the government of Japan implemented two major reforms: the Pension Reform Act in 2001 and the revision of the EESL in 2006.

Sherman's amendment was voted down, and the Contraction Act passed; greenbacks would be gradually withdrawn, but those still circulating would be redeemable for the high-interest bonds as before.

The mare may be getting up and down once the contractions come faster and more intensively.

It expects the gross domestic product to decline in the fourth quarter at an annual rate of 4percentt, down sharply from the contraction of 0.5percentt in the third quarter.

Linked to that trend has been stiff global competition and constant pressure from shareholders for ICI to reinvent itself.' Owen says those who argue that ICI would have stood a better chance had it been in Europe, where governments are more protectionist, are probably wrong: 'It might have slowed down the process of contraction, but the result would have been the same,' he says.

Household spending is plunging, down 6.6percentt in December from a year earlier, and the contraction in housing starts and construction orders is even worse.

We, in our very naïve thinking, initially said we'll just slow down these contractions.

After 1 year, the contraction considerably slowed down, with a further 11% width loss over the subsequent 4 years.

When the contraction ended, the nurse put Julia's bed down flat.

The contraction was partly due to a drop in domestic demand, down by 0.5% in the April-June period.

Direct relaxation of gastric wall musculature would suppress antral contraction waves that break down the meal and also inhibit the tonic "pressure pump" mechanism that drives gastric emptying.