Sentence examples for growth ground from inspiring English sources

In the final four months of 2002, as retail sales plummeted and unemployment rose above four million, economic growth ground to a halt.

B7 BUSINESS DAY C1-16 Job Growth Stalled in July Job growth ground nearly to a halt last month, the Labor Department reported.

During the turbulent 1960s, black population growth ground to a halt in the South, and Southern states claimed less than 10 percent of the national increase then.

"Cost savings, efficiency gains and producer hedging have let light tight oil producers defy expectations until now, but growth ground to a halt in May and will likely stay there through mid-2016".

Bill Winters was brought into the bank in June to replace Peter Sands, whose position as chief executive became untenable after a decade-long run of uninterrupted profit growth ground to a halt.

Deflation needs little help destroying an economy, but in Japan's case it is abetted by aging demographics and lagging innovation: Japan's working-age population started shrinking in 1995, and productivity growth ground to a halt shortly thereafter.

All the same, the immediate reality is that Germany, with its declining population, remains enamored of its own low-growth ground rules in a European Union that has never been able to make an ambitious growth program stand up.

On Long Island, Smart Growth's ground zero is the Gerard Street office that Mr. Stein shares with Sustainable Long Island.

But productivity growth is ground zero in the debate over the new economy, as well as the main determinant of future prosperity.

On Friday, in the midst of the debt limit battle, the government reported that economic growth nearly ground to a halt in the first quarter of 2011, a far worse performance than previously estimated.

Grinding stone tools makes them stronger and gives them an even cutting edge; the growth of ground tools enabled Neolithic axe-wielders to clear forests for agriculture, fuel, and shelter.