Sentence examples for slide steeply from inspiring English sources

If oil prices were to slide steeply in the coming months, the kingdom's campaign to bring them down would end very sharply indeed.

Speculation swirled as to whether Google was planning to resubmit the suit in a federal court.Hewlett-Packard's shares hit a nine-year low after Meg Whitman, the tech firm's boss, warned that earnings may slide steeply in 2013 in every business except software.Lost in the woodsNokia is looking to sell and lease back its headquarters outside Helsinki.

THE NEWS The stock market slid steeply, with the S.&P.

New York City's economy slid steeply in the last quarter of 2001, even as the national economy edged upward, according to new data from the New York City comptroller's office.

Wars are potentially different, in both scale and duration.After Iraq invaded Kuwait in August 1990, American consumer confidence slid steeply, and oil prices soared.

While top Chinese officials are worried about inflation, they have faced another problem in recent weeks: the Shanghai stock market has slid steeply, leaving large numbers of angry shareholders.

Venezuelan production has been sliding steeply in recent years, and Cuban officials have been unnerved by the health problems of Venezuela's president, Hugo Chávez, a crucial ally for the island.

Casio Computer slid steeply, following a profit warning, down by 100 yen ($1.05), or 13.5%, to 640 yen ($6.69).

With oil prices sliding steeply from their undreamed of heights at $147 a barrel to under $70/bbl, levels that less than two years ago were considered rapacious, OPEC in its inimical greed called an emergency meeting to staunch the bleeding.

In their ultimate incarnation, like the slope-style course of the annual ESPN Winter X Games, terrain parks enable skiers to soar off jumps while throwing 720-degree revolutions and to slide along steeply sloped rails three feet off the ground.

THE way the world's stockmarkets slid so steeply last September now seems a distant memory.