Sentence examples for rate firmly from inspiring English sources

An unemployment rate firmly and continually below its approximate current level of 4% or a sudden pickup in consumer activity, which accounts for two-thirds of the GDP, according to Canavan.

Along with its location, array of restaurants and an occupancy rate firmly in the 80% range, Rosenfeld says he is also acquiring another value-added element: rooms and amenities that have been kept out of circulation during renovations, and expiring long-term business contracts for the hotel's convention business that Rosenfeld can now mark to market.

Having witnessed a number of court cases up close as an expert witness for the defence, Dr McPhee puts the blame of the abnormal prosecution rates firmly at the door of these officers.

Having witnessed a number of court cases up close as an expert witness for the defense, Dr. McPhee puts the blame of the abnormal prosecution rates firmly at the door of these officers.

For the purpose of the present review it is notable that the rates in all five countries are now much the same with the UK rates firmly in the middle.

The parochial debates from the '90s about whether rap and video games led to increases in the murder rate have been firmly, and happily, filed in the dustbin of intellectual history.

In the last five years, French politics have been rocked by a succession of scandals, there have been almost monthly strikes, the unemployment rate has stuck firmly above 12percentt, French filmmakers and writers don't seem to produce anything decent and, what is perhaps worst of all, it's now often said that you can eat better and cheaper in London.

Real interest rates are now firmly negative.

Richard Jerram, of Macquarie Capital Securities in Tokyo, points out that real interest rates are now firmly negative, among the lowest of any G8 economy.

The birth cohort trends relevant to examining the possible impact of childhood DDT exposure on U.S. breast cancer rates, however, were firmly established well before 1990 in women < 40 years of age (Tarone 2007).

Corroborating with data elicited from the in-depth interviews, the two focus groups affirmed that their contribution and support to implement CHPS has been tremendous and as a result they firmly rated the community's contribution on the spider-gram at point 5.