Sentence examples for overdue adjustment from inspiring English sources

Britain is far less exposed to a run on its banks by foreign depositors than Iceland was, says Ben Broadbent, an economist at Goldman Sachs.The fall in the pound may have been disconcertingly large but it marks an overdue adjustment after a long period in which sterling was overpriced.

But the rise in prices looks more like an overdue adjustment than a bubble.

Noncash charges, including those for the plummeting value of Elan's biotechnology investments, accounted for $2.2 billion of the annual loss, but analysts said the figure was an overdue adjustment, since those investments were overstated in the past.

A prediction: Alice Munro will win an overdue Nobel Prize.

A hugely welcome step, if overdue; Apple's iCloud backup has done this for years.

She left her job in July, then fell behind in her rent and accumulated $530 in overdue Consolidated Edison bills.

For the immediate moment, the secretary is rightly urging Congress to approve this year's overdue Pentagon budget and put aside complaints about future cuts.

(Vivien Schweitzer) Fretwork (Wednesday) Now celebrating its 25th anniversary, the stellar British viol consort makes a long overdue Carnegie Hall debut with a program of 17th-century fantasias, airs and allsorts by Monteverdi, Lawes, Ferrabosco, Lupo and others.

Mr. Halpern said he received an e-mail message from his father on Monday afternoon, thinking it would be about the series pickup, but instead it was about an overdue Sprint bill.

Martin Scorsese collected his overdue Academy Award for "The Departed"; Joel and Ethan Coen won their first Best Picture Oscar, for "No Country for Old Men," in the midst of popping out a film a year.

Not necessarily in terms of who won, although the women who won were pretty much all terrific, and Jeffrey Tambor's long overdue Golden Globe for his performance as a transgender woman is a triumph for feminists and transgender people.