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How to use the word subdued in a Sentence? Page #2

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For today and broadly for this year, the oil market seems to be dictating the script for the TSX, the longer oil prices remain subdued as they are, the greater the collateral damage.

Shailesh Kshatriya

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Weakness in China's economy isn't new ... but China's reaction function seems limited at this stage. They have to focus on weakening the currency, rather than adopting the massive stimulus that some might hope and pray for, we may see subdued commodity prices and therefore continued weakness in the commodity-related names.

Ioan Smith

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Weakness in China's economy isn't new... but China's reaction function seems limited at this stage. They have to focus on weakening the currency, rather than adopting the massive stimulus that some might hope and pray for, we may see subdued commodity prices and therefore continued weakness in the commodity-related names.

Ioan Smith

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Weakness in China's economy isn't new... but China's reaction function seems limited at this stage. They have to focus on weakening the currency, rather than adopting the massive stimulus that some might hope and pray for, we may subdued commodity prices and therefore continued weakness in the commodity related names.

Ioan Smith

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The two PMIs taken together still point to subdued activity in the manufacturing sector.

Julian Evans-Pritchard

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The brain absorbs all the phenomena of our daily life, constructs a maze of countless corridors that run through our mind and opens numerous unconscious wishes and subdued desires, which are processed in the labyrinths of our subconscious. ( " Labyrinth of the mind " )

Erik Pevernagie

added by anonymous
8 years ago

It's certainly a risk for the global economy overall (but) the impact on the euro zone should be relatively small, it is more of a problem that the emerging markets show a significantly subdued dynamic.

Ewald Nowotny

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

You now have lower leverage with lower interest costs, which will keep defaults more subdued than you otherwise would have seen.

Stephen Casey

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The growth of manufacturing output remained subdued during the second quarter, with the rates of increase in new business and output slipping to their lowest since the first half of 2013.

David Hensley

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The problem with this market is that there's no fresh money flowing in, the MSCI move could affect Hong Kong stocks negatively; foreign interest in Hong Kong stocks is subdued by an expected Fed rate hike later this year; and mainland investors are looking on the sidelines amid political uncertainty.

Chen Zhizhong

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The reaction in Hong Kong to the premier's remarks is much more subdued, as the main theme here is the strengthening U.S. dollar.

Chen Zhizhong

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I drove it well, hit irons well, it was one of those rounds. I have five gimmes for birdies, made a couple of par putts. I was never in any trouble. I can't remember any day when Pebble was so subdued. The whole course looked like a postcard. Ever since I've been a pro, I've never seen it look that pretty.

John Daly

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The fall in inflation expectations is genuine, reflecting falling commodity prices - especially in energy, (with) dollar strength restraining import prices - and ongoing subdued wage growth, the long TIPS trades have been losers all year.

Gregory Whiteley

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Jean Rostand

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them.

Washington Irving

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something else...some defect of talent or opportunity has cut them off from their pet ambition and has thus left them with leisure to take an interest in their lives of others. Your ambition may be, it makes him keep his thoughts at home. But the heartbroken people -- if I may use the word in a mild, benevolent sense -- the people whose wills are subdued to fate, give us consolation, recognition, and welcome.

John Jay Chapman

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.

Washington Irving

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.

Plato

added by anonymous
14 years ago

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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