Sentence examples for surprising growth from inspiring English sources

The ANC has been taken aback by the EFF's surprising growth.

But Japan's national accountants, who compiled last week's surprising growth figures, have a more dispiriting view of deflation.

Another organisation that has seen surprising growth is Frontline, a graduate scheme for social workers who support vulnerable children and families.

As nonprofit hospitals around the country struggle with a surprising growth in admissions, many are finding it increasingly difficult to raise the money they need to meet the new demands on them.

Big technology companies, including I.B.M., Microsoft and Intel, pulled the market higher, as did a report by the National Association of Purchasing Management that showed surprising growth in the services sector.

"It's a pure coincidence that the economy has picked up before the elections," said Shigenori Okazaki, a political analyst at UBS Securities, dismissing Mr. Koizumi's claims that his policies are responsible for this year's surprising growth.

Barring truly spectacular and surprising economic growth in coming years, though, the reckoning is likely to come eventually, even if there is little hint of it in today's bond market.

A3 SCIENCE/HEALTH Surprising H.I.V. Growth Rate The proportion of the world's new H.I.V. infections occurring in Asia has risen sharply in the past two years as the epidemic has outstripped efforts to stop it, the United Nations said in a new report.

The results are not too surprising, because growth funds tend to own the stocks of service, health care and technology companies -- categories that are seldom associated with environmental pollution and that are perceived by some people as promoting diversity in their employment practices.

After months of talk of almost nothing but cuts, Prime Minister Mario Monti of Italy and President Nicolas Sarkozy of France delivered such a message to the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, during recent visits to Berlin, with a surprising result: "Growth" has become the new watchword on everybody's lips — even Mrs. Merkel's.

The French economy, the euro zone second largest, showed a surprising 0.1% growth in the third quarter.