Sentence examples for rising materials from inspiring English sources

Hercules has been trying to pay down heavy debt and stave off rising materials costs since its $3.1 billion acquisition of BetzDearborn in 1998.

But the company has suffered from rising materials costs, from adverse shifts in the yen-dollar exchange rate and from a trend toward smaller cars in Japan, where new car sales have fallen for 11 straight months.

A Dun & Bradstreet survey found that manufacturing executives believe that over the next three months rising materials costs will force either slimmer profits or higher prices for finished goods.

As for managing rising materials costs, that will be everybody's headache.

"Developers are being squeezed by rising materials costs and capital costs.

Honda skidded by 5.2%, to 2,920 yen, after Nomura Securities cut its ratings from bullish to neutral owing to a weak U.S. market, rising materials costs and the yen's rise against the dollar.

There had also been rising material costs.

Part of it is rising material aspirations".

Researchers and pollsters reported rising material expectations, sharper acquisitive instincts and increased presumptions of personal economic security.

There is widespread dissatisfaction with rising material prosperity as a goal in itself and a yearning for something more.

"Rising material wealth seems to have expanded minds as well as wallets," as one Irish commentator put it.