Sentence examples for potential downturn from inspiring English sources

Worker efficiency rose as firms reduced staff hours, girding for a potential downturn.

The main City regulator has warned directors that they needed to explain the sales to show they are not related to any potential downturn in business profits.

"It's too early to say if the surveys will remain in such weak territory in coming months, leaving substantial uncertainty over the extent of any potential downturn.

But action is demanded now, and businesses and households need to know how the government will respond to any potential downturn.

The president-elect seems eager to seize upon the potential downturn as a justification for the tax cut -- $1.3 trillion over 10 years -- that he proposed on the campaign trail.

A failure to recognize the beginnings of a potential downturn eight years later, in time to pin it on the Clinton administration, would strike Bush loyalists as an equally haunting oversight.

How realistic that perspective is remains to be seen, and though its fortified with enough capital to survive any potential downturns, the next year should prove whether or not the startup's live, creative-business angle is here to stay or is just a flash in the pan.

Baseball rose in popularity in the 1920s, and survived potential downturns during the Great Depression and World War II.

More of a worry is the risk of rapidly expanding a retailing business ahead of a potential economic downturn.

The second is the "general external environment", particularly the credit crisis and a potential economic downturn in America.

Reacting to this altered outlook, the Federal Reserve said yesterday that a potential economic downturn had supplanted inflation as the main threat to the economy.