Sentence examples for markets fire from inspiring English sources

Throughout the industrialized world, there are a handful of these areas where governments fill needs better than free markets: fire protection, police work, education, postal service, libraries, health care.

In real markets, fire sales typically refer to the liquidation of portfolios.

But instead of playing the role of the markets' fire chief, he played that of head cheerleader.

With the markets' fire turned firmly on Italy, Greece's struggle to find a new prime minister became something of a sideshow, but one which demonstrated the difficulty in taking decisive action anywhere within the euro zone.

This star of London's Kerb street food markets fires up its wood-fired pizza oven in the garden at the Library pub every Tuesday night (£5-£7).

"It seems an unwitting invitation to speculate on which other euro-zone members might soon be in the markets' firing line," writes the Guardian.

Even before this disappointing outcome, Portugal — the next country in the markets' firing line — was having to pay higher costs to issue debt.

(See "Hard Times For Hartford").. Troubled Circuit City Stores is pulling the plugh on 155 of its more than 700 stores in 55 markets, firing about 17.0% of its work force in the United States.

The disclosure of the normally confidential teleconference came as European Union paymaster Germany said it was up to Spain, the latest euro zone country in the markets' firing line, to decide if it needed financial assistance, after media reports that Berlin was pressing Madrid to request aid.

To be sure, most cosmetic doctors are neither flamboyantly advertising discounts on operations nor marketing fire sales on injections.

If it does not endure, it could complicate the economic picture as these two pistons of the already sputtering economy, profits and the stock market, fire less powerfully.