Sami's health has sharply declined.

The use of torture had declined sharply.

Thereafter, the two camps interests and conclusions diverged sharply.

At the same time, the cost of living increased sharply.

In Egypt s case, the crucial tourist sector contracted sharply after the revolution.

The government will be forced to consider raising revenues sharply.

And only in the last 50 years or so that sugar consumption rose sharply.

Donor aid did start to rise sharply as a result of all of these efforts.

Since then, most emerging market currencies have rebounded sharply.

Consumers made huge bets on two bubbles housing and credit.

After many years of outperformance, GDP growth has slowed sharply.

During the East Asian crisis of 1997 1998, poverty rose sharply.

A vaccine was developed in the next decade, and deaths began declining in earnest in 1924.

Otherwise, simmering trade frictions could suddenly throw globalization sharply into reverse.

Likewise, many other European banks are cutting back their overseas business sharply.

Interest rate spreads on Italian sovereign debt have widened, but not sharply.

But assume that China does revalue its currency sharply, by, say, 40 .

As a result, levels of import penetration actually fell, quite sharply, in virtually every country.

These factors explain why growth in most BRICS and many other emerging markets has slowed sharply.

Export growth is down sharply, turning negative vis à vis the eurozone s periphery.

And, despite the spike in unemployment, productivity growth in the eurozone is decidedly negative.

Yes, India s economy has slowed sharply, the rupee has plunged, and scandals and protests dominate the headlines.

A return to a national currency and a sharp depreciation would quickly restore competitiveness and growth.

Even though home prices have already fallen sharply, there has been no meaningful rebound.

Middle class and wealthy households around the world felt poorer and therefore cut their spending sharply.

Positive trends in previous months, with regard to respect for human rights have been badly undermined.

More than a century ago, during the first Gilded Age, American politics was sharply polarized as well.

The risk of a vicious, self reinforcing downward spiral would rise sharply.

Sometimes, even often, economies prosper nicely after the government s deficit is sharply reduced.

How, then, can we sustain worldwide economic progress while cutting back sharply on carbon emissions?

A spike in defaults could destabilize the entire financial system and trigger an economic downturn.

These developments first convergence, and now faster services growth stand in sharp contrast with earlier trends.

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But, with concerted international efforts, including by NATO ships, pirate attacks have dropped sharply.

The eastern zone is dominated by a range of verdant hills which drop steeply to the coast of the Alor Strait.

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But the state itself is in dire financial straits one of the cities problems is the sharp curtailment of state funds to localities.

Developed countries, faced with the sudden cutoff of a key energy source and a major spike in world oil prices, felt powerless.

Just as in the case of the United Kingdom since 2008, the Greek exchange rate would depreciate sharply.

As societal structures and common norms of behaviour gradually break down, the vulnerability of the population increases sharply.

Indeed, today s US predicament contrasts sharply only with the current experiences of developing Asia.

That proportion subsequently fell sharply, and the same decline could later be seen in industrial employment.

At the same time, the Japanese yen has depreciated sharply, including by more than 20 against the struggling euro.