Sentence examples for torrid day from inspiring English sources

The moves form S&P and Fitch came after another torrid day on the financial markets.

Banking group HBOS endured another torrid day on the stock market today, losing 40% of its market value by mid-afternoon and facing renewed questions about its ability to keep funding its operations in paralysed financial markets.

The fears have infected markets for many assets today with sterling tumbling to a seven-and-a-half-year low against the dollar, gilts prices falling – pushing up yields or the cost of raising new debt – and bank shares enduring another torrid day of trading.

Finance ministers and central bankers from the group of 20 major economies meeting in Washington DC vowed on Thursday night, after a torrid day on stock markets, to take "all steps necessary" to calm the global financial system and said central banks stood ready to supply liquidity.

It was another torrid day for Clattenburg, who added to the controversy of the previous week's failure to spot a Wayne Rooney elbow by missing a similar incident involving Steven Nzonzi on Duff and then failed to award Fulham two penalties before he did punish Hanley for what was a far more minor offence.

Kevin Miles, of the Football Supporters' Federation, said the incident came at the end of "a very torrid day for many England fans".

Conventional wisdom took a beating on a torrid Saturday night at the MGM Grand and so did boxing's credibility as once again Manny Pacuqiao was awarded a controversial points victory over Juan Manuel Marquez.

Photograph: PR/Michael Leckie Updated at 12.36pm BST 11.46am BST World champion athlete Kerron Clement is not the only one having a torrid Monday morning (see 11.24 update) as London opens its doors to Games competitors.

If, however, the stereotype of Chelsea as a magnet for such men is dated, you couldn't tell it from the volume of cartoon action figures strutting the streets on a torrid Saturday night.

Yet on a torrid Saturday in August, while mayors in the South of France were busy enforcing a burkini ban that has since been ruled illegal, Nailah Lymus and Jaharrah Ali, both hijabis (women who cover, in the Muslim tradition), were modelling at a photo shoot in Tribeca with The New Yorker staff photographer Pari Dukovic.

The men endured a torrid Friday night in the German town of Moenchengladbach as heavy rain caused an hour-long disruption.