Sentence examples similar to precipitous assessment from inspiring English sources

The change in the company's assessment is "a very, very precipitous fall," Pierre Cailleteau, recently the head of sovereign debt ratings at Moody's, told The Times.

The causes of the crises have been reported: years of lax attention given to massive leveraging of debt, laissez faire government regulations and the seemingly willful ignorance of Wall Street's risk assessment firms directly led to that precipitous moment. 
 
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It was a precipitous fall.

Their fall has been precipitous.

Perspicacious or precipitous?

Fertility decline is not some precipitous event.

Mr. Greenspan also provided his first public assessment of the state of the economy since the Fed cut interest rates at the beginning of the month to help keep the precipitous slowdown from becoming a recession.

Monsignor Wallin's fall seems precipitous.

It sure beats watching another precipitous fall.

Its slopes are generally precipitous.

And the precipitous descent is continuing.