Sentence examples for national contraction from inspiring English sources

In the case of France, for instance, the adverse case was pegged on a national contraction of 2.1 percentage points of G.D.P., with unemployment surging to 11.5 percent by 2011, which would be the highest rate since 1975.

In the case of France, for instance, the adverse scenario was pegged on a national contraction of 2.1 percentage points of gross domestic product compared with the central assumption, with unemployment surging to 11.5 percent by 2011, which would be the highest rate since 1975.

The economic definition of recession is, of course, a contraction in national output.

According to the national statistics institute, the 1.6percentt contraction in the second quarter came after a contraction of 1.4percentt in the first three months of the year.

Mean enough here, with up to three million protesters in the streets last week and a newly projected 2.9percentt contraction for the national economy in 2009, to turn a quick-draw champion of a president into a man of caution.

It is the body/mind/heart technology that is absolutely essential if we are to transcend the contractions of individual and national ego that are the source of so much suffering.

If the recent contraction of Roman Britain's place on schools' national curriculum was reversed, he said, it would make his jubilee.

The erstwhile Celtic Tiger has seen its national income shrink 17% over the past three years – the deepest and swiftest contraction of any western country since the Great Depression.

Cardinals fans are in general so giddy one can almost forget that the national pastime in recent seasons has been so much about team contraction, salary caps and lockouts.

In some cases, a large portion of national R&D resources are distributed to target technologies under the "selective focus and contraction strategy" Lee and Song (2007).

Current illustrations are the sharp contraction of bargaining coverage in Romania and Greece following the termination of the national agreements in 2010 and the collapse of sectoral bargaining.