Sentence examples for margins continue from inspiring English sources

"Corporate earnings, trends in sales growth and margins continue to disappoint in most industries.

The Australian iron ore industry is poised for a huge shake-up as the global glut worsens and margins continue to tighten.

"China's service sector has stabilized at a relatively low level of growth," said Qu Hongbin, an economist at HSBC. "But profit margins continue to be squeezed.

"There is no question that gasoline margins continue very weak" and are likely to remain so, Valero's chairman, William R. Klesse, said in a conference call with investors.

Papers have cut costs by shedding thousands of workers, eliminating some distribution routes and printing fewer, smaller pages, but profit margins continue to shrink.

Mergers are being driven by the increasing pressure for companies to slash costs and bolster drug pipelines as profit margins continue to thin.

But Intel's gross margins continued to decline during the quarter, and they show no sign of improving next quarter.

Margins continued to improve as the retailer ditched its discount-heavy approach and pushed more full-price products.

I think now it's a question of, on the margins, continuing to reduce the crime rates; we want to keep doing that.

"On the back of high and volatile international crude oil prices, refining margins continued to show improvement, while the chemicals business continued on an upward trend," the company's chairman, Chen Tonghai, said.

The relentless focus on maintaining margins continues, even though profit and revenue have never been higher; four days after the company's shares soared past $90 to a record high last month, United Technologies confirmed it would eliminate an additional 3,000 workers this year, on top of 4,000 let go in 2012 as part a broader restructuring effort.