Sentence examples for instead of a precipitous from inspiring English sources

We might actually feel better now if we had endured years of mediocre but steady growth instead of a precipitous rise and fall.

And if private banks continue their money printing ways, instead of a precipitous fall in the rate of monetary inflation we could be looking at a precipitous rise.

A day that was supposed to have marked a tentative first step toward peace between Israelis and Palestinians instead signaled a precipitous slide back into full-on warfare.

So instead of attempting anything precipitous, these people with the "key-man" clauses should stick around and see what interim Fox News chief Rupert Murdoch does with the joint.

By November, with Apple stock in the midst of a precipitous decline, they were still bullish.

A first performance of a new opera is the start of a precipitous journey.

Among the disgraced works was "Drinking and Singing at the Foot of a Precipitous Mountain".

It marks the bottom of a precipitous fall for a man who once was the president of Interpol.

Rats did not survive below an FIO2 of 7% because of a precipitous fall in arterial blood pressure.

Still, the numbers are quite clear: no quarterback who suffered that bad of a precipitous fall in performance ever recovered.

These captures were part of an investigation into potential causes of a precipitous decrease in the population that resulted in a US Endangered Species Act listing.