Sentence examples for sinking margins from inspiring English sources

Those margins remain healthy at the mining and retail ends -- De Beers's net earnings rose 84percentt in 2000, to $1.29 billion, and Tiffany's rose 31percentto to $190.6 million -- but manufacturers and other intermediaries complain of sinking margins.

Fire and brimstone was falling from the skies in those days, crashing through markets and sinking margins.

We thought the company would do a 'kitchen sinking' margin reset for the new year.

The sale, scheduled to close March 31, amounts to a lifeline for the company, which entered negotiations at a time of profound weakness; it was facing a costly shareholder lawsuit, sinking profit margins and increased foreign competition.

The coast instead slowly and relentlessly sinks as the rock beneath it cools and sand and mud washed off the land fill the space created by the sinking continental margin.

"They'll be looking at market share on a market by market basis". Target stopped selling cigarettes in 1996 without sinking its profit margins, according to Interbrand.

HOUSTON — With margins sinking faster than expected, earnings for oilfield services company Lufkin Industries fell a telling 63% in the first three months of 2009, or 66% including the estimated impact of a nagging class-action lawsuit.

As North America plowed westward, with its margin sinking the two plates, it rammed into the arrow point about 150 million years ago.

Banks' profitability is sinking, partly because lending margins are being squeezed by a scramble for deposits as a source of stable funding.

Water seeping through soils into the bedrock, water collected by sinkholes, and surface streams sinking underground at the margins of karst areas all percolate along fractures in the bedrock and gradually create sizable passages by chemical action.

The industry's sales are expected to grow by just 1% this year, and margins are sinking.