Sentence examples for slowdown cut from inspiring English sources

Ridership had been declining in late summer, as a national economic slowdown cut the amount of travel.

Governments of both main parties have sometimes sought to increase the tax take a little but have not succeeded, usually because an economic slowdown cut receipts.

Profit from continuing operations rose 3.8percentt, as the global slowdown cut demand for Anglo American products like gold, platinum, coal and diamonds.

Stocks rose strongly in the United States and in Europe on Thursday after the European Central Bank, concerned about an economic slowdown, cut its benchmark interest rate and Greece abandoned a planned referendum on its latest bailout deal.

The networks division has lost about $350 million in the last six months as phone companies hit by the global economic slowdown cut back on orders for wireless network equipment.

Since 1997 the slowdown cut the operating margin in Donnelley's print business by a third.

The country, which is the world's largest diamond producer, has been hit hard as a global economic slowdown cuts demand for diamonds, which account for close to 40percentt of the economy.

It is bad enough that a general economic slowdown has cut into sales of handsets.

The economic slowdown has cut the demand for electricity, which makes all new projects seem less urgent.

When they sense a slowdown, they cut back, laying off workers and curtailing investments, amplifying the ripples of retrenchment.

One report suggests the slowdown could cut the amount paid through the business rate over last year and the current financial year by £2.5bn.