Sentence examples for great slump from inspiring English sources

The Great Slump made it clear that capitalism was neither.

Sometime in the 1990s came a great slump in voting.

When the great slump caused purchases of everything else to fall away, ticket sales held up.

The first is from John Maynard Keynes, The Great Slump of 1930; the second from Barack Obama's first inaugural, in January 2009.

So wrote the great economic iconoclast John Maynard Keynes in an essay titled "The Great Slump of 1930," published in December of that year.

Similarly, both the Bank and the Office for Budget Responsibility have spent the bulk of the great slump predicting an imminent turnaround – which has never turned up quite as billed.

This ice was deposited tens of thousands of years ago during the retreat of the Laurentide Ice Sheet, but over recent decades, warmer weather and heavier rains have accelerated thaws that mark the landscape with great slumps of earth and crater-like scars dozens of meters wide.

It has suffered a slump of Great Depression proportions, yet the troika has been demanding fresh tax increases that will suck demand from the economy, stifle growth and add to Greece's debt burden.

Hey, that little thing about causing the worst global slump since the Great Depression?

We're probably facing the worst slump since the Great Depression.

The threat of another Great Depression, or even Swedish slump, is in the past, he feels.