Sentence examples for were relatively sound from inspiring English sources

In Greece, most banks were relatively sound, and did not suffer the same problems as in countries like Ireland, where a real estate bust and profligate lending damaged the banking system and the national economy.

Its banks are relatively sound.

More broadly, Canada's budget position is relatively sound.

Italian banks, unlike Ireland's, are relatively sound and did not need a bailout.

The monetary fund program is a signal to many Western donors that the country's economy is relatively sound.

In 1999, the City is relatively sound financial shape; however, it still has a debt burden remaining from the fiscal crisis of the late 1970s.

The country's banks are relatively sound, its recession is shallower and its budget and payments deficits smaller than those in the United States.

Over the last year, however, the performance has been relatively sound, with the shares dropping 11% during which time the wider FTSE 100 has lost 15%," he said.

The Tunisian economy has been one of the most competitive in the Arab world and Tunisia's finances are relatively sound.

Despite recent downgrades by the ratings agency Moody's Investors Service, Italian banks are relatively sound — at least compared with Spain's — because they are not saddled with bad debts from a real estate bubble.

The theory behind the throttling is relatively sound.