Sentence examples for was already slumped from inspiring English sources

By then, she was already slumped back in the arms of a relative, eyes closed, wiping away tears.

Samsung, he said, relies on sales in the United States, where the economy was already slumping before the Sept. 11 attacks.

Because the airline industry was already slumping before the attacks, the question now is "how long will we feel the effect," said Peter Shackleford, regional representative for Europe.

Today, head of the Greek central bank George Provopoulos tried to calm markets by saying spending cuts to achieve "ambitious fiscal targets" was the best option as further increases in tax rates would hurt economic activity which was already slumping.

Gazprom's sales in Europe are already slumping.

The challenges they have had to face started well before 9/11 because the economy and the airlines were already slumping".

The number of houses bought with buy-to-let mortgages is already slumping, according to the Council of Mortgage Lenders.

The canceled performances will have an economic impact on Broadway, where total box-office receipts were already slumping in recent weeks as summer tourist audiences departed and no new shows opened.

Domestic gas prices were raised by 56% this year in order to improve the finances of Naftogaz, the state-owned gas monopolist.Though higher energy prices and a smaller budget deficit are necessary, the scale of today's spending cuts and price rises is likely to clobber demand in an economy that is already slumping.

Although several economic pundits argue there is no reliable way to project such an economic downturn, certain sectors are already slumping.

As the audience members take their seats, a crowd of travellers are already onstage slumped in various postures of resignation, amid their jettisoned baggage — indefinitely barred from the terminal by a bomb scare — while armed soldiers patrol around them.