Sentence examples for striking slowdown from inspiring English sources

This tallies with a striking slowdown in BRIC growth rates.

There has been a striking slowdown in overall health costs since the Affordable Care Act was enacted, with many experts giving the law at least partial credit.

The globe's hurricanes have seen a striking slowdown in their speed of movement across landscapes and seascapes over the past 65 years, a finding that suggests rising rainfall and storm-surge risks, according to research reported Wednesday.

The Washington region is in the midst of a striking slowdown in its growth rate as it draws far fewer residents from elsewhere in the country than in previous years.

The performance in the July-September period represented a striking slowdown from a growth rate of 5.6percentthehe previous quarter, April through June, and the weakest showing since a 2percentt increase in the third quarter of 1996.

That hardly suggests a dramatic slowdown.

What is striking about Europe's slowdown is that so much of it is linked to domestic weakness, what Daniel Gros of the Center for European Policy Studies describes as long-term "speed limits" on European growth.

The most striking feature of the slowdown is that it extends beyond the coastal provinces, which depend on exports and are closely linked to the global economy, to the country's far more insular interior, including cities like Xi'an here in northwestern China.

What was most striking, though, was that the slowdown in iPhone sales should have taken journalists and analysts by surprise.

But with output flat or falling in the second quarter in economies that among them account for two-thirds of world output, the world may already be in recession (see chart 1).The most striking aspect of the current slowdown is that it is more widespread than in previous world slumps in 1975, 1982 or 1991.

The organization he led from 1964 to 1986, District Council 37 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, does not include such municipally muscular groups as police officers or firefighters, who can put the public in swift peril by striking or engaging in work slowdowns.