Sentence examples for massive purchases from inspiring English sources

Massive purchases in the automotive industry drove the cost down.

The Fed's massive purchases increased competition for available Treasuries and thus drove down interest rates.

The central bank is by far the biggest buyer of bonds these days, and has chased out other market participants with its massive purchases.

During the financial crisis, the monetary authorities were called on to assume temporary emergency powers, including massive purchases of government and private sector bonds.

Massive purchases of Arab oil by the industrial world, especially after the oil shocks of 1973 and 1979, have both destabilised much of Islam's existing economy and provided it with the possibility of greater riches.

The gradual start to tapering by the Federal Reserve – the slowing of massive purchases of mortgages and government bonds to increase liquidity and hold down interest rates – was announced this week and could have worldwide impacts.

"It cost me hundreds of thousands to buy it – a genuinely massive purchase," he said.

The so-called Quantitative Easing programme is usually done through the central bank's massive purchase of bonds, including government debt, which tends to lift current bond prices.

Investors had hoped that the ECB would announce a massive purchase of bonds in the market, stopping the Spanish, Irish and Portuguese debt from reaching unsustainable levels.

The massive purchase of farmland by the government provoked dissent among the farmers, leading to political disputes that delayed the opening of the airport from its completion in 1973 until 1978.

The net cost to Moscow is nothing – the mere transference of concealed subsidies, like cheap travel and the massive purchase of party publications, from one UK organisation to another.