Sentence examples for pessimistic figures from inspiring English sources

Gregory J. Heym, chief economist for Brown Harris Stevens, who produced the most seemingly pessimistic figures, said the price decline actually captured a market shift.

At that point, he should have torn up the official White House forecast, which said unemployment would top out at about eight per cent, and ordered its replacement with a new set of more pessimistic figures.

The deficit figure for next year would have been even higher had the chairman of the committee, Representative Jim Nussle, Republican of Iowa, not broken with recent practice and used White House budget assumptions instead of more pessimistic figures developed by the Congressional Budget Office.

David Martin, vice president for primary research for Nielsen Online, said that despite these pessimistic figures, Twitter's retention has roughly doubled since December, and "when really interesting content such as Oprah and the major news publications are posting, that's not to say that many people won't be attracted back".

Even assuming pessimistic figures for each of these factors, they estimate that Golden Rice would still yield benefits equal to more than double the costs of adapting and testing the product for the Philippine market.

98percentt versus 2percentt is an awfully pessimistic figure — and, as others have pointed out, it's not even accurate.

Specifically, the prevalence of overall resistance fell from 2.5% to 1.5% in the optimistic, 9.9% to 3.3% in the realistic and 42.3% to 4.5% in the pessimistic scenario (Figure 2A and 4A).

2 Range reflects the probable limits in kasawala recruitment: the optimistic estimate (lower figure) and the pessimistic estimate (higher figure).

The eurozone's reputation as the laggard of the global economy appeared to be overly pessimistic, after revised figures showed annual GDP growth in the currency bloc edged higher to 1.7%.

He was promptly proved insufficiently pessimistic when the figures for 2004 were published, showing that GDP growth in the last quarter had slowed to 1.5% on a year earlier and to a dismal 0.1% on the previous quarter.

IDC is more pessimistic yet; it figures smartphones are currently 18% of the African mobile phone market, but they expect their number to "merely" double in volume by 2017.