Sentence examples for rates surge from inspiring English sources

"Additionally, Spain and Greece have seen their youth unemployment rates surge (from already high pre-crisis levels) to close to 50 percent".

Although post-Soviet Russia and Belarus had similar rises in vodka consumption after the Soviet alcohol monopoly broke up, only in Russia did unemployment and death rates surge among working-age men.

I wrote yesterday about the effects of a loss of investor confidence on countries with their own currencies and floating exchange rates, arguing, as I have in the past, that as long as they don't have large amounts of foreign-currency debt it's very hard to tell any story in which interest rates surge and the economy slumps.

When labor becomes more productive, wage rates surge, and thus the demand for labor by industry would decrease, given the same level of output supply.

From Chris Milk's The Treachery of Sanctuary to Moment Factory's music wall, there's something about interactive facades that always make our pupils widen and heart rates surge in excitement.

Jefferson County is facing bankruptcy on $3 billion in sewer debt after interest rates surged when the credit ratings of insurers backing the bonds were cut after their losses on unrelated mortgage securities.

Those rates surged again after the wars, he said.

In 2009, when Jade Goody died of cervical cancer aged 27, smear test attendance rates surged.

Rental vacancy rates surged and desperate landlords began offering up to three months of free rent.

In the occupations that followed, as many as two million women and children were raped, and suicide and abortion rates surged.

In March, for instance, mortgage rates surged after some big investors were forced to sell billions in mortgage bonds.