Sentence examples for precipitous time from inspiring English sources

In explaining its verdict, the court wrote, "Yukos was the object of a series of politically motivated attacks by the Russian authorities that eventually led to its destruction".The case has been in the works since 2005, although its resolution could not have come at a more precipitous time for Russia.

If HA-coatings degrade over time precipitous decline in performance may occur even after several functional years.

That two years would be up early in 2009, unless the U.S. economy declines in a more precipitous fashion this time.

Despite that spritely rise, the company's stock is still far below the $42 and change it fetched in 2002, and its long slide since then became especially precipitous late last year, around the time the U.S. housing market began to weaken.

Nihat had first walked the precipitous Lycian coastline three decades ago, a time when there was only a narrow footpath along the 10-mile section between Olu Deniz and Yuva.

Those who expressed opinions about how investors might best approach the market now were unanimous in urging caution, avoiding precipitous decisions at an emotional time when the economy is already teetering on recession.

BBC1 was marginally down on the 4.1 million viewers who turned in five years ago, with ITV suffering a more precipitous drop from 1.3 million last time round.

Now, as we hover on the brink of the coalition's precipitous cuts, there's no better time to consider his wisdom.

GLM is locally quite smooth at most points in time, but has large precipitous jumps at certain time points because the yearly seasonal component is modeled as a step function, constant within months, but changing discontinuously from one month to the next.

Form changes can be suggested by solubility data collected at various time points by a precipitous drop in concentration indicating crystallization of a less soluble form (as shown in Figure 7).

But this time the fall has been precipitous.