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Recession
"Recession" in a Sentence (19 examples)
Recession is a temporary falling off of business activity during a period when such activity is generally increasing.
He argued that the new policy was bound to drive the economy into recession.
The recovery of Japan's economy, which has been in a recession for some time, is finally under way.
This increase in unemployment is a consequence of the recession.
Social unrest may come about as a result of this long recession.
The policy is bound to drive the economy into further recession.
As the recession set in, temporary employees were laid off one after another.
The recession has put the crunch on wage laborers.
The economy has entered a recession.
In spite of their tiny restaurant they managed to pull through the recession.
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[…]that light may break forth from the deepest enclosures of darkness, and mercy may rejoice upon the recessions of justice, and grace may triumph upon the ruin of sin, and God may be glorified in the miracles of our conversion, and the wonders of our preservation and glories of our being saved.
Eastward in Bosnia, while the central European clime prevails, the thermic gradient does not follow the recession in the north latitude, but the elevation of the terrain.
Had this climate recession not occurred, the settlements might have provided the first real bridgehead into the continent of America, rather than being rediscovered by Columbus and later by Cabot.
The climatic recession which produced Britain's last glaciers came rapidly to an end about 10,000 bp, as temperatures rose during the end of the protocratic phase of the present interglacial.
Statisticians often define a recession as negative real GDP growth during two consecutive quarters.
In past recessions, drugstores were virtually immune from a turndown.
Partly because of the heavy burden of government debt built up during his stewardship, and the uncurbed recklessness of the country’s banks, Britain’s recession is already the harshest in Western Europe.
This is not necessarily surprising; employers often use recessions to pay new workers less because they have such a large pool of potential applicants to choose from, says Ruth Milkman, the Labor Studies Chair at the City University of New York’s School of Labor and Urban Studies.
Bilateral medial rectus muscle recession when angle is stable. Controversy exists regarding optimal timing of surgery. If greater than 40 prism diopter esotropia, some recommend bimedial recession with resection of one lateral rectus muscle.
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