| The fact that capitalist booms do not always collapse into dire slumps does not mean that they never do. |
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| The doctor slumps back in his chair, and casually tosses his glasses onto the paper-stacked desk. |
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| The slumps form a chain of isolated hills easily recognizable in the elevation model. |
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| He slumps in the auditorium, worrying that his mother is rambling or sermonising. |
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| A significant change in direction in the middle of one of the worst technology slumps in history needed a leap of faith. |
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| Returning home, Matt slumps and stumbles, briefly touching his dad's boxing gloves as he enters his dim hallway. |
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| Amanda drops her duffle bag at the foot of the couch and slumps down in the loveseat adjacent to it, exhausted. |
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| Oftentimes I see that players in form slumps really are just forgetting about doing the basics that they're supposed to be doing. |
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| Apple Pandowdy is one of a family of simple desserts, known in different parts of the world as cobblers, duffs, grunts, slumps and pandowdies. |
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| Population growth and concentration made cyclical slumps and harvest failures increasingly difficult to mediate or relieve. |
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| This was the first, and largest, of three price slumps that the accident-prone discount retailer had this year. |
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| Messer portrays her as a dough-faced sad sack who slumps glumly in front of a couple of her trademark paintings of grotesquely buxom women. |
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| It has lasted for a long time, through depressions, recessions, slumps, civil wars and world wars. |
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| Barry's body slumps, as if tired of the pretence of being strong and unemotional. |
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| Perhaps fortunately for Finley, he is usually a slow starter and thus is used to overcoming slumps. |
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| Streaks and slumps are as common to baseball as bats and gloves. |
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| Better still if governments beat the deficit targets, giving them scope for stimulus during slumps. |
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| It looks bad when a superpower is flummoxed because its esteem in the eyes of others slumps. |
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| This fill then slipped away in retrogressing shallow slumps until the loose, water-saturated original fill was eliminated. |
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| Sand grains are blown up the windward side of the heap and over the crest until the leeward side of the dune is so steep that it slumps under its own weight. |
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| Brooke slumps, cadaverously, in Laskey's drenched and exhausted arms, like a pietà . |
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| As her boyfriend's lifeless body slumps down from the chair onto the floor, spurts of blood splash all over Alice's face and body, staining them red. |
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| In phase one, growth slumps below zero until it reaches the trough of the recession. |
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| It is therefore highly sensitive to the downturns and slumps of this industry. |
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| Those caused by sediment slumps likely related to seismic events are identified by high magnetic susceptibility. |
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| Long slumps therefore tend to drag innovation performance down, resulting in less innovation coming from workers' mobility. |
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| There are slumps when it seems that our parliamentary institutions, like clock-work toys, have run down. |
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| History and research shows that businesses that cut back on their marketing during slumps tend to fall short in regaining their clientele. |
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| Wave action will destabilize the slopes and wash the sand away in successive slumps. |
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| The slump can be determined by means of a table which is divided into the classes S1 to S5 with slumps ranging from 10 mm to more than 220 mm. |
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| The world price slumps when the supply of cotton is artificially increased in this way. |
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| This may indicate that an increasing number of young people return to school during economic slumps. |
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| The unit is composed of rhythmically bedded marls, horizons of laminated organic-rich black shales, rare marly limestones, clastic turbidites, and penecontemporaneous slumps. |
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| American players may well have witnessed some amount of stock market volatility, but despite the recent share slumps, 2000's corporate performance was impressive. |
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| Whereas the U.S. textile industry has shown noticeable recoveries from slumps in previous years, it is not showing signs of recovery in its most recent cycle. |
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| The morphology or shape of the retrogressive thaw slumps strongly affects how quickly they retreat, as does the presence of other adjoining slumps. |
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| In spite of all the economic slumps that have caused so much human distress, Canada has proved a society of rising expectations that has fulfilled its promise to millions. |
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| But now all those slumps are history, buried along with the notions that Wade Phillips and Romo couldn't win a playoff game. |
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| Where fractured, the crystalline rocks are unstable and due to weathering have created a wide variety of rock-slide scars and slumps, active scree and snow avalanche paths. |
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| A slumping episode may trigger other slumps farther down the canyon or may create turbid, dense slurries of water and sediment, which flow downslope as turbidity currents. |
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| There was an optimism that dictated that slumps had to be endured and then there would be a period of even greater prosperity. |
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| When the cone is carefully lifted off, the enclosed material slumps a certain amount, owing to gravity. |
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| These people are inclined to suffer from seasonal affective disorder, which is exhibited in wintertime writing slumps, Flaherty asserts. |
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| Braman said the carbon reserves were becoming more concentrated at the top as fossil fuel companies struggling with slumps in coal and oil markets merged. |
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| Another is that housing slumps are rarer than stockmarket downturns. |
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| Disk-drive and memory-chip makers, already suffering one of their severest price slumps ever, are bracing for more pain as Korean manufacturers dump inventory to raise cash. |
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| Conversely, if demand slumps, the region cannot make different sorts of wine, because the kinds of grapes that can be grown in any region are determined by the AC rules. The regulations reach deep into methods of production. |
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| The second half of 2009 nevertheless brought a little calm back to the western world, after a 2008 that had ended calamitously and a start to 2009 that saw deep slumps in the markets. |
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| A catstep is a narrow, back-tilted terrace or bench on a grassy slope, formed when a hillside slumps beneath its own weight. |
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| Assigning 750 billions from EU and IMF hardship funds, should allow other countries, where the Euro is on shaky ground, to be supported and protect the single currency against speculation and rate slumps. |
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| In addition, rural areas are challenged by slumps in the region's forestry industry, as it faces escalating labour, transportation, energy costs, and natural threats such as the pine beetle. |
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| The steep slopes limiting the terraces have been, and still are, seriously affected by erosion, especially by slumps, landslides and occasional mudslides. |
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| Mired in both offensive and defensive slumps, Figgins didn't enter the game until the seventh inning as a pinch runner for Robb Quinlan. |
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| As morale slumps and donors have their doubts, the president has to work the lunch and dinner circuits even harder to service the party's overdraft. Is the lamed presidency therefore permanently crippled? |
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| Even fewer may be built as homebuilding slumps. |
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| Much of this erosion occurs as the weakened banks fail in large slumps. |
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