Sentence examples for rate was driven from inspiring English sources
A drop in the jobless rate was driven by a mix of new hiring and a large number of potential workers who gave up futile job searches.
Union officials argued that the sick leave rate was driven up by illnesses and injuries to firefighters in the World Trade Center attacks and in the later recovery efforts.
The rise in the general A* to C rate was driven by a rise of nearly four percentage points on 2014 in the slice of students getting at least a C in the English language exam, which went up to 65.4%.
Quinn thinks the slightly higher than expected dropout rate "was driven by a perception that this intervention was ineffective".
This increased event rate was driven mainly by hospitalisations (RR 1.29, 95% CI 1.01 to 1.66).
The high non-compliance rate was driven by changes in local policy for the standard care group, 2 and the study management committee considered it likely that policy changes by the New South Wales Ambulance would further increase this rate.
The higher rate is driven largely by widespread joblessness among veterans under 25 years old, whose unemployment rate was 30 percent last month.
One concludes from this analysis that both year-to-year fluctuations in national health spending and the longer-term trend in that growth rate are driven primarily by current and prior-year changes in macroeconomic conditions.
PepsiCo's tax rate is driven by the tax laws and regulations of the approximately 200 countries and territories in which we do business, and we pay all of our tax obligations in full.
We tested a model of clearance rate regulation that specifies that clearance rate is driven by the density of energy reserves and is modulated by factors such as biochemical signalling and seston concentration (Fréchette, M. 2012. A model of clearance rate regulation in mussels. J. Sea Res. 73 32 40).
If the LIBOR rate were driven artificially low by merely 0.29 percentage points (a percentage cited in a lawsuit brought by Baltimore), dozens of these swap deals could be costing tens of millions more than they otherwise would have.
