Sentence examples for quadrupling from inspiring English sources

Speaking to the BBC, Bennett also condemned the first-past-the-post voting system after the Greens won – and retained – just one seat in Westminster, despite nearly quadrupling their vote.

The first was the oil embargo imposed by the Arab petrostates in the wake of the 1973 Yom Kippur war, quadrupling the price of oil and shifting the balance of power in the world economy.

Worldwide's influence will inevitably grow, if it is to fulfil the management's ambition of quadrupling its current contribution to the BBC's revenues.Some areas of expansion are non-commercial, and that poses a different set of problems.

Luke Ravenstahl, the city's 29-year-old mayor, is quadrupling the 900-strong police force by shipping in 1,500 state troopers and borrowing cops from cities like New York.

Beset by IRA bombers, quadrupling oil prices and, most damagingly, striking miners, dockers and power workers, he made mistake after mistake: U-turns in economic policy, a bad industrial-relations bill, support for internment in Ulster, and so on.

Born as recently as 1989, the firm has already turned itself into a giant in the industry, supplying more strategic advice than almost all the long-established strategy firms, selling more re-engineering than CSC Index and quadrupling its revenues in the six years to 1995 to more than $4.2 billion for the group as a whole.

The entire development budget runs to only 68 trillion rupiah.The UNDP has calculated that the government could boost spending on basic health care and education throughout the country, distribute food to the poorest Indonesians, and increase the number of police while quadrupling their salaries, all for 50 trillion rupiah.

Ze'ev Bielsky, the chairman of the Jewish Agency, the main body responsible for promoting aliyah Jewish immigration still claims to believe in a goal set in 2001 of attracting a million new immigrants by 2020, which would mean quadrupling the current immigration rate with immediate effect (in fact, last year it reached its lowest level in 20 years).

LG even refuses to take on their laid-off workers, preferring to train all its employees from scratch.Chinese officials argue that reviving the north-east is essential if the government is to achieve its target of quadrupling 2000's GDP by 2020.

This means they can knock on every door in a neighbourhood, tripling and quadrupling the number of voters they reach.

The toymaker has enjoyed ten years of spectacular growth, almost quadrupling its revenue.