Sentence examples for precipitous highs from inspiring English sources

The yield on the 30-year Treasury bond also fell, dropping from its recent precipitous highs to 5.946%.

Careering wildly over narrow, hilly roads, fugitives made a precipitous, high-speed descent toward the Hudson River.

The village stood upon a high, precipitous bluff, and upon this bluff the 'works' were constructed," described Willis.

Its precipitous slopes and high valleys are so forbidding and remote that even Islam did not reach Nuristanis until the late nineteenth century, and they are to this day considered a unique people.

While precipitous drops and dizzying highs aren't unusual for the cryptocurrency, BTC watchers are pointing to the PRISM and NSA leaks as a cause for this weekend's massive dip.

Its precipitous cliffs are the highest in the UK and home to more than half a million breeding seabirds.

Precipitous creation of small high schools may be a good sound bite for Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's re-election campaign, but it has hurt the majority of students.

It is also of note that one cannot reliably determine from birth certificates whether the vaginal delivery was a planned and monitored event, or whether it was a precipitous delivery of a high-risk pregnancy [ 27].

Similar results were obtained with the crude DEP extract: a reduction in the required number of Ca2+ pulses at low doses and precipitous Ca2+ release at high doses (not shown).

The precipitous 250-foot (75-metre) high volcanic plug on which the present castle stands was probably occupied by the early British Picts.

"In reality what it's turning into is that C.P.S. is on trial for their high-handed and precipitous tactics in removing these children".