Sentence examples for sharp toll from inspiring English sources

Indeed, the heightened European fears took a sharp toll on American bank stocks Wednesday.

Some of it focuses on the sharp toll increases, together with the confusing justifications offered by the authority's commissioners for the increases.

Around the state, many residents were disheartened to be facing another bout of bad fiscal news when they were still trying to make peace with the governor's call for sharp toll increases on New Jersey's major highways.

Consumer confidence fell to its lowest level in at least 40 years, a survey said Tuesday, as falling home prices and steep declines in the stock market took a sharp toll on the faith of Americans in the economy.

While the political and security consequences of the American withdrawal have yet to be fully resolved, its economic effects have already taken a sharp toll on the tens of thousands of Iraqis who earned their livelihoods, sometimes at great risk, working for the military and the legions of American civilian and defense contractors.

Nevertheless, the disease and its treatment took such a sharp physical toll that, friends said, for a while afterward she questioned whether she should have survived.

Financing for the $5.2 billion bridge remains a riddle, with sharp, unpopular toll increases likely, and environmental groups are concerned about what will be the biggest dredging project in the history of the Hudson.

The bureau's findings were worse than many economists expected, and brought into sharp relief the toll the past decade — including the painful declines of the financial crisis and recession —had taken on Americans at the middle and lower parts of the income ladder.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority faces a billion-dollar deficit for next year and has proposed sharp increases in tolls and bus and subway fares, as well as deep cuts in service.

Mr. Wisniewski would rather see an increase in the gas tax — which at 14.5 cents a gallon is the third lowest in the country — than a sharp rise in tolls, as would the trucking industry and other businesses.

Minutes after taking the oath of office on Feb. 1, Acting Governor DiFrancesco announced that he would have vetoed the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey's sharp increase in tolls and fares, which will take effect next month, if he had had the chance.