Sentence examples for off the downturn from inspiring English sources

This year there will be a boom in loans as they shrug off the downturn.

That beat an analysts' consensus forecast provided by the company of $358m but investors were wary about more tough times ahead as the company seeks to shake off the downturn.

After shrugging off the downturn in the housing market that sparked the worldwide crisis, Caterpillar and other makers of bulldozers, dump trucks and excavators have suddenly faced a world of challenges, including a drop in spending by their well-heeled energy and mining customers.

In a news release last week, the Labor Department emphasized that the state had a good month from December 2012 to January 2013, and it emphasized that private-sector jobs had been growing for a record 17 straight months coming off the downturn.

Shaking off the downturn, Samsung posted earnings of $5.6 billion in 2002, up 133%, on $48 billion in sales, up 32%.

Sales of standard single-family homes have stayed strong; it is sales of second homes and vacation homes that have fallen off because of the downturn, said Joel Ives, the broker/owner of Century 21 Colonial Realty.

The figure will be welcomed by business leaders who argue that China needs to shrug off the effects of the downturn if global trade is to recover.

Vincent Bolloré's marketing services company, Havas, appears to have shaken off the worst of the downturn recording first quarter of revenue growth across its global operation for the first quarter since 2008.

Chief executive Stevie Spring said that it may be "tempting fate" to say the company had seen off the worst of the downturn and, despite encouraging signs in the market to the end of June, it was "too early to talk about a sustained recovery".

He was laid off in the downturn as a bond trader.

"They really are standing alone in cutting children off during the downturn," Ms. Guyer said.