Sentence examples for pummeled demand from inspiring English sources
But in practice, fiscal consolidation was equated with austerity: near term cuts to spending or increases in taxes that pummeled demand at a time when the ECB, with interest rates close to zero, couldn't compensate.
This despite a world economy that has pummeled demand for new computers and walloped Intel's earnings.
Yet the dominoes that have been falling in emerging economies in recent weeks – with share prices and currencies pummelled, demand for exports hit and growth forecasts slashed – have been as clear a signal as anyone could hope for that the world is far from ready to withstand tighter monetary policy.
Gateway, which is based in San Diego, has been pummeled since last fall by weak consumer demand for personal computers and by the impact of a price war initiated by Dell Computer, regarded as the industry's lowest-cost producer.
In 2001 Malden overestimated demand for Polartec, pummeled by an unusually warm winter.
Like the rest of Asia, it has been pummeled by the collapse in global demand set off last year by the United States financial crisis.
As slumping prices and demand for Japanese exports pummeled the country's largest companies in the third quarter, managers reacted by slashing their forecasts of sales and profit and their plans for capital spending, the survey found.
In an interview with German newspaper Die Zeit last month (and translated recently by business analyst Gavin Schalliol), the leading French economist pummeled Germany for its hypocrisy in demanding debt repayment from Greece.
As the OPEC cartel meets in Cairo on Saturday, exporters are being pummeled by a triple whammy of lower prices, falling demand and declining revenue.
Problems arose for junk bonds in the Asian financial crisis of 1997 and 1998, as collapsing demand for shipping, paper and oil on the Pacific Rim pummeled those sectors and led to bond defaults.
Airlines are seeing the benefits of their drive to ground planes and cut capacity, after being pummeled by the sharp rise in oil prices in 2008 and the drop in demand after the financial crisis.
