Sentence examples for news a drop from inspiring English sources
How does the bad news (a rise in obesity, for example) stack up against the good news (a drop in juvenile crime and teenage pregnancy)?
Shares in Cadbury fell almost 2% to 743p on the news, a drop of 15p, before erasing their losses as the City digested the implications of Kraft's decision.
Even what looked like good news – a drop in the unemployment rate – was caused by discouraged workers giving up hope of finding a job.
"It's a tragic situation, because we're only getting news a drop at a time," said Maria Teresa Spinozzi, an art official in Pescara, an Abruzzo city not affected by the quake.
The numbers that indicated continued softness in consumer spending contrasted with news -- a drop in jobless claims, strong auto sales and a bottoming in manufacturing activity -- that seemed to promise an early end to the economic downturn.
But the weight of expectation is much the same, increased on the morning after the League Cup defeat by the news of a drop to fourth in Deloitte's table of revenues among Europe's top clubs, overtaken by Bayern Munich and out of the top three for the first time since 1996-97.
After Trump's announcement, the Dow Jones industrial average greeted the news with a drop of more than 1.5percentt.
The news followed a drop in ING's shares on Friday, as the bank/insurer said that it would be posting a 500.0 million euro ($670.9 million) loss for the third quarter, its first-ever quarterly loss in more than fifteen years, and rumors spread among investors that it needed to raise a substantial amount of capital.
I choose to find this news encouraging: A drop in emissions is good; the free market helping fight the problem is good; a negative feedback loop (a reduction of fossil fuel use triggered by the very warmth that fossil fuel use is causing) is also a good thing.
The news touched off a drop of nearly 14percentt in the company's stock.
That overshadowed more positive news on wages, a drop in long-term joblessness and the headline unemployment rate holding steady at 5.5%.
