Sentence examples for protracted decline in from inspiring English sources

Economists said the new data showed that the risk of a protracted decline in prices had receded.

The bureau defines a recession as a significant, protracted decline in activity that cuts across the economy, affecting measures like income, employment, retail sales and industrial production.

Admittedly, those are small falls set against the year's gains, but a protracted decline in the Chinese markets will have ripple effects.

There are so many immediate problems, not least an intractable economic crisis and the most protracted decline in living standards since the 1920s, that the long-term health of Planet Earth does not seem a priority.

Moody's Investors Service cut the long- and short-term credit ratings for AT&T two notches to speculative status, saying that "relentless competition will cause a larger and more protracted decline in the company's revenues and earnings than we had originally expected".

No economy can long survive a protracted decline in the purchasing power of the individual consumer.

Results: Subgroup analysis revealed a total of 5 distinct IL-6 responses: 1-high response and fast decline; 2- slow and protracted response; 3- fast response and protracted decline; 4- small response and fast decline; 5- sustained response.

In Laikipia District, a dry savanna region in northern Kenya where wildlife share the landscape with humans and livestock, we examined why five of nine wild ungulate species suffered protracted declines on properties receiving the greatest conservation investment.

The "Nightline" producers said the money from the sales helps make up for protracted declines in advertising revenue and potential budget cuts.

We previously showed that, in prion-diseased mice, rising levels of misfolded prion protein (PrP) promote sustained elevation of eIF2 α-P in neurons, leading to the protracted, uncompensated decline in global translation rates, resulting in the loss of crucial proteins that contributes to synaptic failure and neuronal death.

But with orders for new products and services drying up and financing tight, employers are looking to shrink their costs drastically and are slashing their payrolls, anticipating a protracted decline for business in 2009.