Sentence examples for has moved sideways from inspiring English sources

Obstfeld said: "Taken as a whole, the world economy has moved sideways.

James Carrick, economist at Legal & General, says: "Since 2006, the ratio of global imports to production has moved sideways.

Despite two years in which the economy has moved sideways, the chancellor said he did not feel under threat politically.

Osborne blames the last Labour government, rising commodity prices and the crisis in the eurozone for the weak performance of the economy over the past two years – a period in which gross domestic product has moved sideways.

Johnson said the need to continue the austerity programme into the next parliament had been caused by George Osborne's decision to allow borrowing to rise while the economy has moved sideways over the past two years, rather than tighten policy further.

The economy has moved sideways for two years, weak growth has meant the deficit has not come down as quickly as expected, the end of austerity has been pushed back deep into the next parliament, and Osborne will miss one of the targets he set himself – to have debt as a share of national income falling by 2015-16.

Though its shares have moved sideways in recent days, the company remains above its offering price, at a $16.7 billion valuation.

Claims for jobless benefits have moved sideways for much of this year and continue to hold below a nine-month high touched in mid-August.

The Fund said inflation had moved sideways in most countries, but noted that the renewed declines in commodity prices and a glut of cheap manufactured goods meant further downward pressure on the cost of living was now in prospect.

It could have moved sideways for eight years before getting back to trend.

I saw a glimpse of it when it was live and my impression from a distance was that one of them must have moved sideways because they touched suddenly.