Sentence examples for mere slowdown from inspiring English sources

But the larger question is whether an increasingly bitter brew of flagging output and a sovereign debt crisis — along with the market downturn — will create something more sinister than a mere slowdown, and lead more businesses to cut jobs and investment as Mr. Knott has.

By that measure, the "r" word never really applied, and we're still in a mere slowdown.

Given the weight of the evidence, you can't conclude that we're in a mere slowdown, even though almost no one has the moxie to acknowledge we're in a recession.

The human cost of the gratuitous recession that Berlin is inflicting on Europeans is hidden by the journalist's framing of the crisis as a mere "slowdown" and describing it as a "cloud".

[C3.] CONSUMER SLOWDOWN Spending grew by a mere 0.1percentt in March, as Americans cut back on their purchases.

The two-year-old merger of Daimler-Benz and Chrysler, which trades at a mere ten times trailing earnings, has suffered from a slowdown in U.S. truck sales and the exit of American executives.

The two-year-old merger of Daimler-Benz and Chrysler, which trades at a mere ten times trailing earnings, has suffered from a slowdown in U.S. truck sales and American executive exoduses.

Another sobering warning is that after British house prices fell in the early 1990s, it took at least a decade before they returned to their previous peak, after adjusting for inflation.Another worrying lesson from abroad for America is that even a mere levelling-off of house prices can trigger a sharp slowdown in consumer spending.

The Nikkei 225 is up a mere 0.65% as of mid-November, amid worries about a slowdown in the U.S., export- dependent Japan's biggest market.

Just before the economic slowdown became apparent there was a rise in the caseload between July and September 2000 a mere 8,000 families, but the first time that more than a handful of states had seen the numbers rise.Yet the connection between welfare rolls and the economy is less firm than you would expect.

Almost certainly not; but "resource nationalism" will surely make life uncomfortable for geese.Because of falling commodity prices and a slowdown in China, which takes over 85% of its exports, Mongolia's roaring economy slowed drastically last year to a mere 12% or so GDP growth, from over 17% in 2011.