Sentence examples for in the face of inflation from inspiring English sources

And it has even lowered some prices, in the face of inflation that has ranged from 3.8 to 13 percent a year.

The ECB has so far held off from QE despite speculation earlier this month that it was ready to act to bolster economic growth in the face of inflation which has fallen to 0.3%, dangerously close to outright deflation.

Liu Shijin, a vice minister for the powerful State Council Development and Research Center, acknowledged Thursday that the government had missed a chance to raise fuel taxes earlier in this decade and now faced a difficult decision on what to do in the face of inflation.

The technology sector, usually highly volatile in the face of inflation fears, ended mostly unchanged.

Despite the hype suggesting that OReGO could be a model for governments in search of a sustainable infrastructure funding source, the fact remains that the tax, as currently structured, is completely helpless in the face of inflation.

He said BSkyB had opposed the increase in the BBC's licence fee, which successive Blair governments raised from £91.50 in 1997 to £135.50 in 2008, above the rate of inflation and "in the face of significant opposition".

"It is indicative of the Fed's continued emphasis on inflation even in the face of nonexistent inflation," Haedtler said.

Governments across the emerging world are tightening policy in the face of rapid inflation.

In the face of rising inflation, emerging economies should be lifting interest rates, not cutting them, but their rigid currency policies make this hard.

The net result is that the current value of a company's future earnings remains relatively stable in the face of rising inflation.

The Wicker judgments fell like a hard rain upon all the presidents: Gerald R. Ford, for continuing the war in Vietnam; Jimmy Carter, for "temporizing" in the face of soaring inflation and the Iranian hostage crisis; Ronald Reagan, for dozing through the Iran-contra scandal, and the elder George Bush, for letting the Persian Gulf war outweigh educational and health care needs at home.