Sentence examples for may slacken from inspiring English sources

Then again, contemporary Greece is having problems of its own, so the cultural onslaught may slacken for a while.

Officials also fear that enforcement may slacken if the London-based Serious Fraud Office suffers a deep budget cut.

China's desire to slow the rate at which it builds reserves may slacken demand for euro-denominated assets.

In commodity markets, oil and gasoline prices retreated significantly from historic highs, on concerns that demand may slacken as the American economy cools.

The market may slacken, but Shimao has no plans for its business to follow suit.

With a global slowdown, the world's demand for steel may slacken, but the call for basic building materials from emerging economies like China and India is bound to rise over the long haul.

Providers also realize that public taste can be fickle and demand may ultimately slacken.

Estonia could be assessed a few months after the other two entrants: by then its growth and inflation may have slackened.

But the crackdown on socially loose behaviour, which after two months has begun to slacken, may also have been driven by a desire to placate conservative clergy in Qom, Iran's most religious city, where several of them have criticised President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for letting standards slip.In any event, the regime has been going out of its way to display its strength.

If, for example, one of the companies faces an ugly lawsuit or challenge regarding a listing, it may choose to slacken its enforcement to avoid such complications.

Though this may point to slackening demand for the iPhone 5, it could also mean that Foxconn is preparing to adjust its production line in order to install automated robots as a way to get around increasing wages and concerns that poor working conditions played a role in a series of worker suicides.