Sentence examples for minor contraction from inspiring English sources

That, in turn, is limiting the ability of emerging-market central banks to respond to worsening economic conditions through dramatic monetary easing.In 2009, the world economy as a whole faced just a minor contraction, as much of the decline in rich economies was offset by continued growth in the emerging world.

Heat treatment through the temperature range 1500 2800 °C resulted in a relatively minor contraction in interlayer spacing d002 from 0.3381 to 0.3363 nm.

After the former U.S. Federal Reserve chairman warned that the high-flying Chinese stock markets faced a dramatic contraction, the high-flying Chinese stock markets suffered a minor contraction on Thursday.

Thermal ellipsoids of cations in HoCo0.5Cr0.5O3 structure at room temperature are close to spherical shape, with minor contraction or elongation in b-direction: B 11  ≈ B 33  > B 22 for Ho3+ and B 11  ≈ B 33  < B 22 for Co3+/Cr3+.

The new dugouts took up slightly more room than the previous ones, resulting in a minor contraction of the field's dimensions: 327 feet (100 m) down the left and right field lines, 371 feet (113 m) to left and right-center fields, and 400 feet (120 m) to center field.

Most refused due to low back pain or minor contractions.

The trunk may also show minor contractions and winding movements occasionally providing a forward movement in a snake-like pattern (Additional file 1).

Unlike minor business contractions that may occur in one country independently of business cycles in other countries, severe depressions have usually been nearly worldwide in scope.

The majority of myosin pulses occur next to a vertex of a shrinking junction, whereas in unwounded epithelium, pulses target the centroid of the cell preceding minor transient contractions of the apical cell area (Fig. 3A; supplementary material Movie 2); these episodes may be responsible for some of the small pulses of junction shrinking observed in cells back from the wound edge (Fig. 2D′′).

Even though there are minor periods of contraction, we live in an expanding universe.

Basic calponin (h1Cap) is an actin-associated protein with a minor regulatory role in smooth muscle contraction (Yoshikawa et al. 1998, Matthew et al. 2000).