Sentences with phrase «only slow the decline»

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Job growth has slowed over the past few months and GDP is growing at only 1.2 %, but there aren't the declines we usually see in recessions.

In the base metals complex, only nickel and tin traded higher for the quarter.4 A slow start to Chinese restocking coming out of the Chinese New Year holiday weighed on prices for copper and aluminum, both of which saw their worst quarterly results in years, while zinc and lead prices also declined.4 The London Metal Exchange (LME) Index, which tracks the three - month futures prices of all six metals, fell 6.3 %.4 LME copper -LRB--7.4 %, to US$ 6,714 per mt) and other industrial metals erased some of their 2017 gains, falling alongside a sharply decelerating expansion in China's manufacturing activity — sparking demand concerns and greater caution among hedge funds and other speculators who cut their net long positions in the metal.4 Outside the LME, US steel was buoyed by trade policy changes.

The CEO has been at the company for only a short while and is making some changes that have been effective in slowing Blackberry's decline.

Also, the labour market in Europe continues to make only very slow progress with unemployment falling from a peak of 12.1 % in April 2013 to 10.3 % in January 2016, contrasting sharply with the steeper declines seen in the US and the UK over the past five years.

A further sharp decline in employment was recorded in August, with the rate of job cuts slowing only marginally from July.

The rate of decline in tradables prices continues to slow, suggesting that the maximum impact of the exchange rate appreciation in 2002 and 2003 has passed; excluding food and petrol, tradables prices were only 0.6 per cent lower in the December quarter than a year previously.

Interestingly, we saw a significant slowing in growth in offset balances around the same time as growth in interest - only housing loans started to decline.

International migration has slowed, and Illinois has actually declined in total population over the past three years — the only state in the region to do so.

Manufacturing output has now declined for seven months running, but the latest fall was only marginal and the slowest over this period.

While the beer market remained challenging, with volumes down 4.6 per cent on an annualised basis, Lion said the decline has started to slow, with quarterly volumes down only 2.8 per cent.

Not only can it improve thinking skills but the high antioxidant content found in cacao powder can also counteract or slow down cognitive decline during ageing.

Oh yes, you are using your heart but it is planned brain work that is the only thing that will save us from our long slow decline.

... «In such a complex moment, however, to limit ourselves to seeing always and everywhere only the actions of the [international] powers would be «70s style old fashioned anti-imperialism which refuses to recognise the changes in course now for decades, amongst them the slow but inevitable decline of the USA.»

Current FDA - approved medications, including Aricept, Razadyne and Exelon, offer only fleeting short - term benefits for Alzheimer's patients, but they do nothing to slow the steady, irreversible decline of brain function that erases a person's memory and ability to think clearly.

Their goal was to determine if the MIND diet not only slowed the rate of cognitive decline but also resulted in lower rates of Alzheimer's disease.

Researchers credited not only the vitamin K in leafy greens for slowing cognitive decline, but also lutein and beta - carotene.

During the 11th recession since WWII and the credit crunch when the S / P 500 Index declined by over 50 percent, my Portfolio only lost negative 8.73 % and during the post slow recovery period the Distribution Phase Portfolio increased by a better growth percentage than the Index.

Both long - term and intermediate - term Treasury ETFs produced total returns in the 4 % to 5 % range, with only minimal price appreciation as declines in rates slowed compared to 2011.

The Committee now expects a somewhat slower pace of recovery over coming quarters than it did at the time of the previous meeting and anticipates that the unemployment rate will decline only gradually toward levels that the Committee judges to be consistent with its dual mandate.

The argument at its simplest is that since there are individual model runs in the CCSM4 ensemble that are just about as bad as our current reality, we can't rule out the chance that reality will return to the CCSM4 ensemble line — i.e. the decline will slow, and the Arctic will be summer ice - free in «only» 2040 - 2050 or so.

To no one's surprise periods of high CO2 such as the mid-Eocene 50 million years ago were iceless hothouse conditions, while the decline in the last 50 million years has corresponded to a slow cooling until now, and being the lowest CO2 level in the last 100 million years, this corresponds to the only period with Ice Ages that dominate the last 2 million years.

Based on these results, declining stratospheric water vapor would account for only about one - fourth of the slow - down in warming.

It has only been during the past couple of years as mining and the natural resources sector experienced a sudden decline that things have slowed down.

Rent declines have not only slowed but have finally reversed.

The decline in vacancy has been much slower among the rest of the nation — vacancy in those metros hit a cyclical high of 18.7 percent in the second quarter of 2011 and has fallen only to 18.4 percent as of year - end 2014.

It went something like this: hotel check - in, locate room, locate wifi service, attempt connection to wifi, wonder why the connection is taking so long, try again, locate phone, call front desk, get told «the internet is broken for a while», decide to hot - spot the mobile phone because some emails really needed to be sent, go «la la la» about the roaming costs, locate iron, wonder why iron temperature dial just spins around and around, swear as iron spews water instead of steam, find reading glasses, curse middle - aged need for reading glasses, realise iron temperature dial is indecipherably in Chinese, decide ironing front of shirt is good enough when wearing jacket, order room service lunch, start shower, realise can't read impossible small toiletry bottle labels, damply retrieve glasses from near iron and successfully avoid shampooing hair with body lotion, change (into slightly damp shirt), retrieve glasses from shower, start teleconference, eat lunch, remember to mute phone, meet colleague in lobby at 1 pm, continue teleconference, get in taxi, endure 75 stop - start minutes to a inconveniently located client, watch unread emails climb over 150, continue to ignore roaming costs, regret tuna panini lunch choice as taxi warmth, stop - start juddering, jet - lag, guilt about unread emails and traffic fumes combine in a very unpleasant way, stumble out of over-warm taxi and almost catch hypothermia while trying to locate a very small client office in a very large anonymous business park, almost hug client with relief when they appear to escort us the last 50 metres, surprisingly have very positive client meeting (i.e. didn't throw up in the meeting), almost catch hypothermia again waiting for taxi which despite having two functioning GPS devices can't locate us on a main road, understand why as within 30 seconds we are almost rendered unconscious by the in - car exhaust fumes, discover that the taxi ride back to the CBD is even slower and more juddering at peak hour (and no, that was not a carbon monoxide induced hallucination), rescheduled the second client from 5 pm to 5.30, to 6 pm and finally 6.30 pm, killed time by drafting this guest blog (possibly carbon monoxide induced), watch unread emails climb higher, exit taxi and inhale relatively fresher air from kamikaze motor scooters, enter office and grumpily work with client until 9 pm, decline client's gracious offer of expensive dinner, noting it is already midnight my time, observe client fail to correctly set office alarm and endure high decibel «warning, warning» sounds that are clearly designed to send security rushing... soon... any second now... develop new form of nausea and headache from piercing, screeching, sounds - like - a-wailing-baby-please-please-make-it-stop-alarm, note the client is relishing the extra (free) time with us and is still talking about work, admire the client's ability to focus under extreme aural pressure, decide the client may be a little too work focussed, realise that I probably am too given I have just finished work at 9 pm... but then remember the 200 unread emails in my inbox and decide I can resolve that incongruency later (in a quieter space), become sure that there are only two possibilities — there are no security staff or they are deaf — while my colleague frantically tries to call someone who knows what to do, conclude after three calls that no - one does, and then finally someone finally does and... it stops.