Sentence examples for slumps like from inspiring English sources

Here's hoping his audience was paying attention, because recessions particularly gut-wrenching slumps like this one provide as many opportunities for business people as they do for politicians.

Wall Street has rebounded quickly from some past slumps, like the one that followed the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s.

The left-hander has had slumps like this from time to time, problems created or perpetuated by his tendency to rush his delivery.

Higher inflation, by contrast, is something the technocratic Fed could deliver without the support of a divided Congress.But I've also written that central banks don't generally propel economies out of slumps like these without significant political pressure being applied.

Most 33-year-old stars emerge from slumps like this, particularly when the hitting coach — in Ortiz's case, Dave Magadan — thinks the player is cocking his hands too late before starting his swing, an issue that can be addressed.

Imposed at a time when the U.K.'s economy was recovering from the financial crisis of 2008-09, it subjected his countrymen and countrywomen to three more years of slump-like conditions, and it produced a dearth of public-sector and private-sector investment that will hobble Britain for years to come.

James S. Yadao, author of The Rough Guide to Manga, claims that the first several chapters of Dragon Ball "play out much like Saiyuki with Dr. Slump-like humour built in" and that Dr. Slump, Toriyama's previous manga, has a clear early influence on the series.

This follows a 9% slump in like-for-like sales in the three months to December last year and an 8% drop in the quarter to March.

He slumped like a puppet.

Mr. Popcorn was slumping like a stroke victim.

It slumped like a sloth; unbudging as a stubborn relative in their favourite chair at Christmas.