Sentence examples for the decent shape from inspiring English sources

In the USA Today of Monday, April 22, 2014, the editors posed the following question to several experts: "Is the pullback over?" Here is what Rod Smyth, chief investment strategist at Riverfront Investment Group, said: "Given the decent shape of the economy, the broad market doesn't look as if it'll get dragged down by the loss of momentum in growth stocks".

We can presume that homeowners and taxpayers in this region want to have their bridges and roads back in the reasonably decent shape they were in ten years ago, so they can drive on them without knocking their wheels out of alignment.

Overall, Thai democracy stands a chance of emerging from the mess in decent shape.It is not out of the woods yet, however.

"Clearly, the labor market was in decent shape before the sequester began and before the impact of the Jan . 1payroll tax hike started to work through," wrote Ian Shepherdson, chief economist at Pantheon Macroeconomic Advisers.

(He quibbles with the last of those, pointing to the many years he spent working in America, eastern Europe and Central Asia while Mr Cameron remained snuggled up in London's political and public-relations scene).Yet Mr Clegg approaches the election in decent shape.

Kwan said he expected additional government stimulus, but added that the Chinese economy was "in decent shape, despite the recent hype about how it is on the verge of collapse".

But they need to raise $90,000 in the next couple weeks to get through a short-term cash crunch, after which they'll be ok for the rest of the year, and with cutbacks, in decent shape for the following year.

Carbon black did not significantly influence the shape memory properties of the resulting nanofibers, and all the composite nanofibers exhibited decent shape recovery ratios of >90% and shape fixity ratios of >82% even after 5 thermo-mechanical cycles.

It would cost the United States a staggering amount to get its overall infrastructure into decent shape — the best recent estimate is $2.2 trillion over the next five years.

Below these winners are a cluster of other promising places that have already managed to withstand the current downturn in decent shape and seem certain to rebound along with the overall economy.

Today's bounce doesn't guarantee that we will get back above the 6000 level straight away and there is still a risk that we could see another dip lower, but in the long run the prospects for the FTSE are still in decent shape.