"Green shoots have sprung up in many sectors, convincing us that the current slowdown looks more and more like a slow consolidation, rather than a precipitous downturn like we saw in 2008-9," Xianfang Ren, a China analyst at IHS Global Insight in Beijing, wrote in a research note.
He painted the ceiling himself, lying on his back on precipitous scaffolding, like a Strathclyde Michelangelo.
Dahl told me, "Ebola was 'acute on chronic.' That's what they call it when someone has smoker's lung, and then suddenly something precipitous happens, like pneumonia.
Rhett (Rhett Wilkins) specializes in precipitous decisions — like marrying a woman (Julie Fischer) he meets during a stopover at an independent movie theater — and passionate, impractical statements of principle.
Like precipitous clouds they stood, imperiously poised above the angels' luminous shoulders; now and then an angel, in a kind of marvellous transport, as if unable to restrain his bliss, suddenly, for a single instant, unfurled his winged beauty, and it was like a burst of sunlight, like the sparkling of millions of eyes.
He said: "My greatest fear is just that; that the Welsh government, that Welsh local government and the third sector will have to pick up the pieces, the casualties if you like, of these precipitous changes that are a complete re-moulding of the welfare state in terms of housing benefits".
Because eruptive activity ceased 250,000 years ago, glaciers have heavily eroded the volcano's structure, creating precipitous slopes and a horn-like peak.
Strikingly, the subsets of the trees from the FOL with decreasing numbers of species showed a precipitous decline of the tree-like signal, which becomes virtually undetectable for the 4 25 species quartile (fig. 1 C – F and supplementary fig. S10, Supplementary Material online).
The distinctive profile of its neighbour, the Beirut Terraces by Herzog & de Meuron, can now be seen, teetering like a precipitous pile of paperwork on the skyline.
Trails like the precipitous line Mr. Murphy skied — a funneling chute under a 40-foot cliff called Slide Path — are as difficult as the double-black-diamond runs at many Rocky Mountain resorts.
