Sentence examples for muted activity from inspiring English sources

They show a month-on-month decline in first-time buyer and home mover activity, and muted activity on the buy-to-let market.

The fund's Global Prospects and Policy Challenges – prepared for the G20 meeting – said recent data had shown "muted activity, slower trade growth, and very low inflation, pointing to an even more modest pace of global growth this year.

The need to keep expenses under control also affects capacity: JPMorgan Chase has announced 13,000-15,000 job cuts in its mortgage unit, for example.Some argue that regulatory upheaval has also muted activity.

Both the amygdala and rACC have important roles in regulating emotion, and their relatively muted activity when subjects imagine negative future events may help take the edge off potentially distressing thoughts, says psychologist Daniel Schacter of Harvard University.

Sulake, the Finnish company that owns Habbo Hotel, two weeks ago "muted" activity on the site as it scrambled to implement better content and safety controls and call for user feedback after an investigative report from the UK broadcaster Channel 4 revealed the extent of the problem.

It is uncertain what effect an increase in MUTED expression will have, however decreased variability of expression might reflect a loss of regulation of MUTED activity.

"However, it seems inevitable that the public finances will be increasingly pressurised over the coming months by muted economic activity eating into tax revenues and pushing up unemployment benefit claims.

HSBC, which makes most of its profits in Asia, said it had "muted customer activity" in April.

Howard Archer, chief UK economist at IHS Global Insight, said: "This net mortgage repayment in August reflects both muted housing market activity and high capital repayments".

With activity muted by the Independence Day holiday, total trading in all contracts came to only 29,000 lots, under 5 percent of normal.

He expects Eurozone GDP to contract by 0.5% overall in 2012, and another 0.2% for 2013: The Eurozone continues to struggle against tight fiscal policy in many countries, high and rising unemployment, muted global economic activity and ongoing serious sovereign debt tensions that are weighing down on confidence and limit investment.