Avalanche
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52 examples of Avalanche in a sentence
There has been a veritable
avalanche
of lobbying on this point, which has resulted in top officials moving slowly, for fear of damaging the economy.
The IMF needs to prevent Europeans from allowing their constitutional paralysis to turn the eurozone’s debt snowball into a global
avalanche.
This would lead to greater discipline among the eurozone’s indebted countries and save Europe from a debt
avalanche
that could ultimately drive currently solvent states into bankruptcy and destroy the European integration project.
With India making little effort to stem the
avalanche
of cheap Chinese goods flooding its market – despite Modi’s much-touted “Make in India” campaign – China’s status as the country’s largest source of imports appears secure.
That will be a matter of opinion until the recession begins to abate; the truth is that we don’t yet know whether this crisis will be a snowball that grows layer by layer or an
avalanche
that sweeps away entire industries.
In the
avalanche
of commentary on this month’s US-Russia deal on Syria’s chemical weapons, few have been prepared to call it a “win-win-win” outcome for the United States, Russia, and the Syrian people.
That intervention became the proverbial snowball that set off an
avalanche.
Indeed, it is our belief that the recent death sentences could mark the onset of an
avalanche
of highly doubtful Court rulings in Tibet, which could lead to a worrying number of executions in that tense and troubled region.
The ECB and Its CriticsPARIS – In Northern Europe, especially Germany, the European Central Bank’s decision to embark on quantitative easing (QE) has triggered an
avalanche
of indictments.
Web search engines are the only mechanism with which to navigate this
avalanche
of information, so they should not be mistaken for an optional accessory, one of the buttons to play with, or a tool to locate the nearest pizza store.
And on the fiscal side, Rishi Sunak, the new Chancellor of the Exchequer, is unleashing an
avalanche
of deficit-increasing stimulus measures.
Gorbachev ran ahead of the political avalanche, pretending that he was leading what he was actually desperate to avoid.
A significant rise in interest rates or an economic downturn could trigger an
avalanche
of distress.
Indeed, all of Central Africa has suffered from seemingly unremitting conflicts – a dynamic that, since the end of the Cold War, “developed into an
avalanche
of killing and destruction,” as the regional analyst and advocate Kris Berwouts put it a decade ago.
The
avalanche
of layoffs will bring a wave of defaults, bankruptcies, and depressed profits.
The old man shrugged his shoulders, and then let them fall as if overwhelmed beneath an
avalanche
of gold.
In this descent of the rocks lines of fracture were sometimes produced which slowly extended as far as the scaffolding, at last perforating it and pushing it into the shaft; and there was the great danger of a landslip and a flood filling the pit with an
avalanche
of earth and a deluge of springs.
We scaled rocks that crumbled behind us, collapsing in enormous sections with the hollow rumble of an
avalanche.
The stones, adhering by no soil or fibrous roots of vegetation, rolled away from under our feet, and rushed down the precipice below with the swiftness of an
avalanche.
I was, I think, occupied in collecting my plants, when I heard a noise like an
avalanche
falling from a very tall tree.
How much of the fall of the
avalanche
is in their anger? of the breaking up of the frozen sea in their displeasure?
The
avalanche
had shaken and slid a little forward, but it did not yet crash down.
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