Sentence examples for freefall from inspiring English sources

"The ratings have been in a freefall the last few years.

Living conditions have collapsed, with massive inflation and a currency in freefall.

Even before coal stocks went into freefall last year, competition from the vast coal reserves of Wyoming's Powder river basin and cheap natural gas was crowding out mines in Appalachia, forcing lay-offs and shutdowns.

As I write, Tesco shares are still in freefall following the profit warning the company issued at the end of last month.

Specifying someone displaying "a track record of visionary leadership", and combining "experience in attracting and retaining creative people" with "personal resilience", the BBC's job ad seems almost to be soliciting an application from the man who co-wrote Extending Choice, oversaw the rise of Chris Evans, and was prepared to take the flak as Radio 1's ratings went into freefall.

He will reach a speed of 690mph, becoming the first man to break the sound barrier in freefall, before deploying his parachute.

Kittinger greeted him with a hug after the July test, but clearly thinks this is freefall for softies: "I went up in an open gondola, and Felix is going up in a very sophisticated space capsule … He's going up in luxury, he's going up in a Cadillac by comparison with what we did 51 years ago".

The implication then might be that the Fed wouldn't have had enough ammo on its own to stop the economy's freefall (although Mr Sumner would say that the Fed seemed to have had a particular, though odd, output target in mind, such that it basically offset the effect of other stimulus with tighter monetary policy).Personally, I would have preferred a more aggressive approach from the Fed.

Indeed, the credibility of Mr Kostunica's government is in freefall.

So why is Russia's economy bouncing back At the end of 2014 the rouble was in freefall.

Mikhail Gorbachev will probably go down in history as a peace-maker, but the award (in 1990) did nothing to enhance his domestic standing which was in freefall at the time.