Sentence examples for financial onslaught from inspiring English sources

Four years ago, because Obama had the most sophisticated vote-pulling operation in the history of American politics, and a rather lackluster opponent, a Democratic president was able to withstand such a gigantic financial onslaught.

According to Paul Woods, director of resources at Newcastle City Council, this financial onslaught is so acute that "multiple council failures" are on the horizon.Clark, at least, is working to change the Whitehall mindset, emboldened by O'Neill's insistence that … "if cities are to reach their potential we need a much bigger shift in economic power from the centre".

A green paper on the future of the BBC is expected to be published in the coming weeks, with the BBC facing a financial and political onslaught from Conservative ministers.

"Like most folks on Wall Street and in corporate America, I spend an inordinate amount of time chasing down leads and trying to keep up with the constant onslaught of financial news," Mr. Sorkin said.

Indeed, the EZLN was predicting nothing less than the demise of Lehman Brothers: "companies and states will crumble in a matter of minutes, not by the storms of proletariat revolutions, but by the onslaught of financial hurricanes".

Big financial institutions have faced an onslaught of litigation since the downturn, although mostly by the government, investors and other companies instead of borrowers.

Italy's prime minister, Mario Monti, said Thursday that more steps needed to be taken at a European level to protect the euro union from the onslaught of the financial markets.

The E.U. deposit guarantee system had been exposed as vulnerable long before the onslaught of the financial crisis in 2008.

This week alone you can take your pick among the mysteries of the spreading swine flu, the drumbeat of Iranian nuclear pursuits, the conundrums of American self-flagellation over Guantanamo Bay, the wild uncertainties of the modern world's financial system or the Taliban onslaught in nuclear-armed Pakistan.

Repairing this mess is the job of Heizo Takenaka, Japan's top financial regulator, who is facing an onslaught of opposition from the political establishment.

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