Sentence examples for strong hurt from inspiring English sources

A sale would come after Mr. Strong hurt the business he worked so long to develop.

It's certainly true that we don't want politicians to seem disconnected from what's really happening — that's why John McCain's pronouncement last fall that the U.S. economy's fundamentals remained strong hurt him so much.

They also attract hot money from abroad, which has helped to make the real uncomfortably strong, hurting exporters.

Faced with overheating and currencies that have become uncomfortably strong, hurting manufacturers, policymakers in Brazil and some other South American countries would quietly welcome a modest fall in their exchange rates.One worry is that inflation has edged up in South America (in Brazil it is 6.9%, above the Central Bank's target).

Burger King said competition and a strong first quarter last year hurt United States and Canadian sales comparisons to this year's quarter.

The strong franc hurt Swiss exports, so the SNB bought foreign currencies in order to stop it appreciating.

But they amount to the first relaxation in Army recruiting standards since 1998, when a strong economy hurt military recruiting.

A strong peso hurt too, because Mexico received less in peso terms for its dollar-denominated oil sales.

Last year, Japan's current-account surplus shrunk to record levels as a strong yen hurt exporters, and an energy shortfall led to a jump in the costs of importing fuel.

The problem is that the words "commercially reasonable," on their face, imply slow-lane and fast-lane deals, whereby carriers like AT&T and Comcast would favor the strong and hurt the weak, while enriching themselves in the process.

The government said Monday that the Japanese economy shrank at a 2.3 percent annual rate in the October-to-December quarter, reversing robust gains in the previous three months, as weak overseas demand and a strong yen hurt manufacturing.