Sentence examples for said contraction from inspiring English sources

Mr. McHale said contraction was "not something we worry about".

Stern said contraction was a possibility in cities where a franchise is for sale and lacking a buyer.

Things are really bad and the whole point is the chancellor called this expansionary fiscal contraction because he said contraction really quickly in that public finances was going to solve all the problems for the economy and get growth going.

I recognize that the likely outcome of this effort is that I'll accidentally say "contraction" when I mean "expansion," Matt Drudge will put up a siren, CNBC will go to Defcon 5, and the Dow will fall by a 1,000 points — all before I'm able to correct myself in the next sentence.

Blake said: "The contraction expected in 2012 is more acute than the 6.1% contraction last year, and means that the funding squeeze that corporates and SMES have been experiencing is only set to get worse.

But, Mr. Arnold said, the contraction "isn't meant to exclude any one group or sector".

Yasunari Ueno, chief market economist at Mizuho Securities in Tokyo, said the contraction was within his expectations, but the slowdown reflected not only the tax rise but also lower incomes and price increases from other sources.

During his tenure, that newsroom shrank to about 450 people, from about 520 — though Mr. Paulson said a contraction of that size was mild compared with what most American papers had experienced.

Rehn said the contraction in the eurozone would be 0.3% compared with forecast growth of 0.5% made in November last year, while the EU as a whole would see zero growth compared with a forecast 0.6% three months ago.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, said further contraction of the global financial sector was inevitable but ruled out the possibility of a 1930s-style economic slump.

With this collapse, it is clear the US government has drawn a line in the sand and is unlikely to bail out any further banks". Dominique Strauss-Kahn, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, said further contraction of the global financial sector was inevitable but ruled out the possibility of a 1930s-style economic slump.