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.

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.

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.

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 micro story is more dramatic.

The macro story is simple, but dramatic.

McNamara s turnabout on this issue was dramatic.

Figures for FDI were even more dramatic.

There are even more dramatic increases in Tokyo.

Indeed, demographically, Russia is undergoing a dramatic decline.

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.

Nowadays this idea has a dramatic name Spaceship Earth.

The result was a dramatic decline in CO2 emissions.

The impact on our humanitarian operations has been dramatic.

They don t fall over. They don t fall.

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.

In such dramatic situations, US power is at its greatest.

This has dramatic consequences for liberal democracy and open societies.

It has been a dramatic few weeks in Egyptian politics.

The Decline and Fall of America s Decline and Fall

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.

Israeli politics is undergoing its most dramatic changes in 30 years.

China s technology inroads are usually less dramatic, but no less telling.

But the most dramatic part of the book concerns Mubarak himself.

Netizens are closely following the news flood of this dramatic development.

If you fall to your left, you're going to fall 8,000 feet into Nepal if you fall to your right, you're going to fall 12,000 feet into Tibet.

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

The impact of the Fed s policy and hot money has been dramatic.

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

The uterus would fall out, literally fall out of the body.

Damascus fall in September 634 and Emesa fall in March 635.

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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 are no dramatic changes in the percentages when compared to previous figures.

There are no dramatic changes in the percentages when compared to previous figures.

The Secretary General's report cites dramatic figures concerning the victims of natural disasters.

Dramatic, headline grabbing attacks against Iraqi citizens, aimed at breaking their will, continue.