Sentence examples for significant softening from inspiring English sources

Maytag said the decline was because of "significant softening in retail sales of floor care products" coupled with a higher percentage of sales of lower-priced models.

Pope Francis is to grant all Catholic priests the power to forgive women who have had abortions, in a significant softening of the Church's stance on the issue.

"With over 22,000 units being built there, a significant softening of prices is likely in the foreseeable future until the new-build premium is eroded and prices come back in line with market averages".

Without the liquidity that the mortgage market has enjoyed because of those foreign investors, "we'll have a credit crunch," Dr. McCarthy said, "which would likely spark a significant softening of the housing market".

He said the government had given permission for nine helicopters from the World Food Program to ferry aid to survivors, a significant softening of its blanket rejection of United Nations aid workers.

"During the last two years Intrawest and the resort industry in general has experienced a significant softening of the real estate market, which has included Mountain Creek," the company asserted, adding that it could not commit to completing the village.

Cyclic stress strain response exhibits significant initial softening relative to the monotonic response, followed by a more gradual additional softening.

By many accounts, the latest round of talks between the two sides this past week in Kazakhstan represented the most significant mutual softening of positions since negotiations began; they were encouraging enough at the end to be described by participants as a "turning point" in a situation that, to date, has most often been characterized by bellicose rhetoric and shared distrust.

The experiments show nonlinear behavior with significant strain softening under cyclic loading.

We find that sodiation of these alloys results in their significant elastic softening by as large as 60%.

For photoactivation with HI, C3 showed significant lower softening than C2; C1 showed intermediated results, without significant difference from C2 and C3.