Sentence examples for outright meltdown from inspiring English sources
Small wonder, then, that the finished product is so torrid and unrefined, frequently preposterous and on the brink of outright meltdown.
An explosion at a nuclear power plant on Japan's devastated coast destroyed a building Saturday and made leaking radiation, or even outright meltdown, the central threat menacing a nation just beginning to grasp the scale of a catastrophic earthquake and tsunami.
Of course, in this vast historical laboratory, nearly all the defaults were accompanied by currency depreciations — if not outright currency meltdowns — that swung the current-account balance from deficit to surplus and thus contributed to the recovery.
It's very fair to harbour concern over China's yuan policy, its massive accrued reserves, and the resulting effects on American consumers, but Mr Fallows mistreats the economics involved in order to spin a potential disaster scenario--a rather nasty hypothetical meltdown, if not outright war.The economic misunderstandings are bothersome.
I say all this as someone who argued in my 2009 book, "How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities," that misaligned incentives and over-optimism rather than outright crookery were at the heart of the subprime meltdown.
Not until July 2012 did ECB President Mario Draghi utter those famous three words – "whatever it takes" – which, backed up a few weeks later by the new "Outright Monetary Transactions" program, put an end to the threat of financial meltdown.
Not until July of 2012 did ECB President Mario Draghi utter those famous three words -- "whatever it takes" -- which, backed up a few weeks later by the new "Outright Monetary Transactions" program, put an end to the threat of financial meltdown.
