Sentence examples for sharp retrenchment from inspiring English sources

With other sectors, like business investment, slowing, a sharp retrenchment by consumers could tip the economy into recession.

Another sharp retrenchment by investors, consumers and businesses could threaten the current global recovery by choking off financing and new orders for companies.

Last November, foreseeing intensifying losses, the airline announced a sharp retrenchment, killing plans for 10 new airplanes each year and modestly cutting capacity on existing service.

Ken Howard, president of the screen actors group, described the result, in which 93 percent of those voting favored the accord, as "a huge boon for members" at a time when the film and television industries are experiencing a sharp retrenchment.

So just as we have seen in mortgage markets, the bubble in private equity, as my sources characterize it, and the overabundance of liquidity more generally raise the risk of a sharp retrenchment in credit and higher risk spreads with associated risks to economic growth and, conceivably, even financial stability.

Booms in lending and property prices were followed by sharp retrenchments and bank failures.

Those sharp retrenchments are based on global oil prices of $65 a barrel, $7 higher more than the going rate Wednesday.

Another is whether the economy will be able to deal with such a sharp fiscal retrenchment.

In a post on his blog, Tan Chuan-Jin, the acting minister for manpower, said: "To shrink our foreign workforce altogether will also be quite dire as many of our companies may close, relocate and with that a sharp rise in retrenchments and possibly higher unemployment amongst Singaporeans".

While that was down from the 7.6percentt growth in the earlier quarter, it was in sharp contrast to the retrenchment in other countries.

Experts said the sharp decline in imports reflected a troubling retrenchment by American businesses.