Sentence examples for prices widespread from inspiring English sources

IT'S been a tough year for the biotechnology industry, with plunging stock prices, widespread layoffs, shortages of cash, a major scandal and numerous failures of drugs in clinical trials.

Opinion surveys give Mr. Blair, 48, a persistent double-digit lead, indicating that he has emerged unscathed from feuding within the top ranks of his Labor Party, a whiff of scandal among some lieutenants, furious protests over fuel prices, widespread aversion to his support of the euro as Europe's single currency and the potential political fallout from the foot-and-mouth crisis.

There is of course a second and much more disturbing possible implication of spiking lending rates in China - which is that the slowdown in credit creation will lead to tumbling asset prices, widespread bankruptcies and the crippling of the banking and wider financial system.

Egypt's economy is on the brink, leading to ballooning food prices, and widespread fuel shortages.

Soaring gasoline prices caused widespread anger in the United States, too, of course.

He was aided by the collapse of agricultural prices and widespread unemployment, which undermined confidence in democratic government and encouraged many to seek salvation in extremist politics.

The fall in asking prices was widespread across England and Wales, and included the south-east and Greater London, which are the most expensive regions.

Faced with growing inequality, sinking mineral prices and widespread dissatisfaction with the political establishment, the candidates promised Mongolians a new era of economic stability and governmental accountability.

Large crowds filled Yerevan's central Freedom Square at the call of three main opposition parties, Prosperous Armenia, Heritage, and the Armenian National Congress, to protest against rising prices and widespread corruption.

Mr. Spence notes the benefit to consumers of globalization: "Many goods and services are less expensive than they would be if the economy were walled off from the global economy, and the benefits of lower prices are widespread".

As an aside, it was also startling to hear Mr. Dimon admit that his bank never even considered the possibility of a large decline in home prices, despite widespread warnings that we were in the midst of a monstrous housing bubble.