Such a dramatic fall in sales would normally require massive layoffs or lower wages.

The sharp fall in house prices that followed caused a dramatic downturn in household wealth, leading to lower consumer spending and an overall fall in GDP.

The result was a dramatic reduction in the British state s borrowing costs and the emergence of a well functioning capital market, which caused private borrowing costs to fall as well.

The fall in house prices pushed down sales of both new and existing homes. That, in turn, caused a dramatic decline in the volume of housing starts and housing construction.

Indeed, demographically, Russia is undergoing a dramatic decline.

After all, dramatic political changes the fall of the Gang of Four and Deng Xiaoping s consolidation as China s supreme leader did follow shortly after the devastating Tangshan earthquake in 1976.

Nowadays this idea has a dramatic name Spaceship Earth.

The result was a dramatic decline in CO2 emissions.

It has been a dramatic few weeks in Egyptian politics.

In the United States, where 90 of automobiles carry one or two people, reliance on such vehicles would result in a dramatic decline in carbon emissions, which would fall even further as a result of less road congestion and smoother traffic flows.

The failure has been dramatic.

China s shift has been dramatic.

Parlous conditions required dramatic measures.

Thus, nothing dramatic will happen to the RMB exchange rate in the near term unless something dramatic happens.

The result was a dramatic decline in America s soft or attractive power.

A second challenge for Japan is the dramatic rise of China s economy.

The micro story is more dramatic.

So, here is the problem there isn t a plausible driver of a dramatic recovery.

The next ten years could witness a dramatic transformation of education in India.

The result has been a dramatic increase in anti Americanism in Turkish politics.

The war in the 1990s caused a dramatic change in the Bosnian economy.

March 2003 saw a dramatic increase in the number of mothers attending playgroup.

There was a dramatic illustration of this actually a year ago Copenhagen, climate change conference.

The macro story is simple, but dramatic.

McNamara s turnabout on this issue was dramatic.

Figures for FDI were even more dramatic.

If prices fall at a rate of 1 , could they fall at a rate of 10 ?

The current information age, sometimes called the Third Industrial Revolution, is based on rapid technological advances in computers, communications, and software, which in turn have led to a dramatic fall in the cost of creating, processing, transmitting, and searching for information of all kinds.

Hopefully I might get something a bit more dramatic and romantic before I die.

I was getting off a train in Nairobi when I saw the dramatic headline.

Also for the euro area, the Ifo Economic Climate index registered a dramatic decline.

The gusle is used mainly to recite epic poems in a usually dramatic tone.

There are even more dramatic increases in Tokyo.

And if we were to fall towards this black hole, we would see all of that light lensed around it, and we could even start to cross into that shadow and really not notice that anything dramatic had happened.

The net result of a series of small changes would be a dramatic reduction in energy consumption.

Overcapacity vanished, constraints on consumption were lifted, and a dramatic increase in household demand followed.

Late this spring, something changed, and within a few weeks moderates made dramatic public advances.

There had also been a dramatic increase in the number of women's non governmental organizations.

The complex and dramatic challenges facing the world place a heavy burden on public administration.

If a fall in sales is due to a shortage of demand while there is ample supply, then, as quantities fall relative to trend, prices will fall as well.

The impact on our humanitarian operations has been dramatic.

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A dramatic manifestation of the mechanistic pattern of solidarity is now emerging in Syria, as well.

FEZ Just over a year ago, the Arab Spring sparked dramatic change throughout the Arab world.

The Secretary General The past quarter century has seen a most dramatic reduction in extreme poverty.