Sentence examples similar to precipitous disclosure from inspiring English sources
In recent months, as General Electric's troubles turned precipitous -- with disclosure of a massive shortfall in insurance reserves, news of a Securities and Exchange Commission accounting investigation, talk of a break-up and a further tumble in its stock -- a rush of stories have examined what went wrong at this icon of American business, or where it goes from here.
In recent months, Mr. Pittman has been at the center of a maelstrom of criticism over the company's failure to meet overoptimistic growth targets, the precipitous decline in revenue at the AOL division he built, and its late disclosure to investors of its sagging fortunes.
It was a precipitous fall.
Their fall has been precipitous.
Perspicacious or precipitous?
Further disclosures today underscored the accountants' central role in the scandal surrounding Enron, the pioneering Houston energy company that was the nation's seventh- largest company before its precipitous fall into bankruptcy protection.
Fertility decline is not some precipitous event.
Its slopes are generally precipitous.
Monsignor Wallin's fall seems precipitous.
"The situation is very precipitous.
The fall can be precipitous.
