Sentence examples for from a precipitous from inspiring English sources

Along the valley above the tree line, a waterfall of at least 100m issued silently from a precipitous rocky slope.

Perry, once the front-runner, has been trying to rebound from a precipitous drop in the polls.

PLUNGING unemployment, rocketing growth, soaring exports and a budget surplus: that is the story of Estonia as it bounces back from a precipitous economic collapse.

THIS construction boomlet is a novel way to gauge the art market's strikingly swift recovery from a precipitous fall in 2008, when sales at auctions, the industry bellwether, shrank in the aftermath of the Great Recession.

Despite increases in arrivals, tourism industry professionals say that Hawaii has a ways to go before it can fully recover from a precipitous drop in business that began in 2008.

He tells executives to focus on the successes of many of AOL Time Warner's other divisions, like the "Harry Potter" films at Warner Brothers, instead of the failures of AOL, which is suffering from a precipitous decline in Internet advertising.

Viewed in this historical perspective, your call for a precipitous withdrawal from Afghanistan is quite simply a forfeiting of the game to Pakistan.

And both have taken positions appropriate for the Democratic primaries — for a precipitous withdrawal from Iraq, against making it easier for telecommunications companies to cooperate with the government in spying on terrorists, for tax hikes and against a ban on partial-birth abortion — that should cause difficulties in a general election.

Artists From Israel A precipitous drop in tourism in Israel has led to the closing of the studios of five internationally known Israeli artists in Tel Aviv and Haifa.

A five-year string of record growth from 2003 through 2008 ended in a precipitous drop of 28 percent in the value of business aircraft delivered from 2008 to 2010.

Esalen's lush campus tumbles down from Highway 1 toward a precipitous cliff above the ocean -- as usual, it's easy to pass by without noticing.