Sentence examples for slumping far from inspiring English sources

With inflation slumping far below the Bank of Japan's 2% target in recent months, it is tempting to conclude that ageing is too powerful a force to overturn.

Adjusted for inflation, oil prices have consistently slumped far below the heights reached in OPEC's heyday in the 1970's.

Payroll employment continues to slump, far below the level needed to accommodate new labor-force entrants, much less reduce the 8.2% unemployment rate.

Yet with its broad reach in selling computers, software and services, I.B.M. had -- until now -- withstood the industry's slump far better than most of its rivals.

The MetroStars, who at midweek were in the throes of a seven-game winless skid, put that slump far in the rearview mirror tonight with an impressive 3-0 victoverover the Miami Fusion.

What got overlooked was that last summer, in the middle of a slump far worse than anything Woods has ever experienced (he didn't win a single tournament), Mickelson briefly absented himself from the Tour and tried out as a pitcher with the Toledo Mud Hens, a minor league affiliate of the Detroit Tigers.

Why – that Hastings/McChrystal question again – has conflict coverage slumped so far this year?

Slumped so far down in his chair he had almost turned it into a chaise lounge, Mr. Karmazin said he was on the line with "an important customer" who, it turned out, was Robert Wright, the former chairman of NBC, which provides several stations to Sirius, including the one Mr. Karmazin said is his favorite on the entire dial, CNBC.

Robinson's portrayal of Anna Nicole Smith involves her whole body: she slumps so far down into the psychiatrist's chair that she is basically sitting on her upper back, ensuring in the process that, rather than sad and deluded, we see Smith as misunderstood and lustful for life.

From its 1989 peak of 38,916, the Nikkei stock average fell 63% during the 1990s; land prices slumped — a far cry from the days when the grounds of the imperial palace in Tokyo were rumoured to be worth more than all the real estate in California.

Overall consumer spending has slumped 6.9%, far exceeding the last big slump in consumer spending in the late seventies (when interest rates where around 18%) and consumer spending declined by 2.9%.