Sentence examples for fall to slow from inspiring English sources

A drogue chute is released during free fall to slow the velocity to 120 miles an hour from 170 miles an hour, on a par with the rate of descent for a solo jumper.

To do this without breaking several bones in the skydiver's body, a piece of fabric called a "slider" comes off your back first, "pushing against" the air you're falling through to slow down the opening of the parachute.

Silberkleit launched two other science fiction titles (Science Fiction and Future Fiction) at about the same time: all three ceased publication before the end of World War II, falling prey to slow sales and paper shortages.

Instead, an "ingenious" gyroscopic device means that to accelerate you simply lean forward (ie fall off forwards) and to slow down or stop you lean backwards (ie fall off backwards).

Meanwhile, revenues are falling due to slowing demand from America and a reduction, following pressure from other countries, in China's complex system of export subsidies.A survey of conditions in southern China conducted in the aftermath of the Chinese New Year, covering 162 members of the Federation of Hong Kong Industries, produced reams of gloomy figures.

But February trade figures released this week by several countries provided tentative signs that the fall may be starting to slow.

Rise and Fall project seeks ways to slow land subsidence in Vietnam's populous Mekong delta.

As Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke noted Tuesday, he sees the housing market stabilizing, and expects the fall in business investment to slow, while that the actions of the Fed and the White House's stimulus package will also contribute to growth.

"With factory gate prices falling, wage growth likely to slow sharply and a big amount of spare capacity in the economy, core inflation will decelerate considerably".

Yet India's foreign-exchange reserves fell by $6.5 billion in the first week of September as the central bank sold dollars to slow the fall of the rupee.

The Mexican peso is falling, and no one seems to be able to say exactly why, or to do much to slow its fall.