A key issue in the election was controlling spiralling inflation.

Spiralling inflation makes it difficult for Hu to feed the nine people in this extended family.

Faced with a global recession and spiralling inflation.

After a period of relative prosperity, the Library again hit financial problems in the early to mid-1970s as spiralling inflation overtook a fairly static income.

Now, with public unrest run-ning hand in hand with spiralling inflation, it was quite out of the question.

In the spring of 1957 spiralling inflation stimulated a fresh wave of strikes in Asturias.

As politicians also have index linked pensions they carry on borrowing and printing money that results in destructive and spiralling inflation.

Experts blame us for failing to understand that QE was not "printing money" and wouldn't necessarily automatically lead to spiralling inflation.

Commentators warned that if the government's absorbtion planning was inadequate or incorrect, then the country inevitably faced the prospect of spiralling inflation, high unemployment and housing shortages.

In so-called Free China distress was acute; resistance was a priority, and even away from the war zone few escaped the effects of the spiralling inflation which beset the non-agricultural sector.

Only with the evidence of spiralling inflation did the government attempt to negotiate a "social pact" with employers and trade unions, but it then succeeded in uniting both of them against itself.

Izvestiya warned that the Civic Union's programme would cause spiralling inflation which could only be broken by "strict, consistent monetary-credit and financial policy, the policy from which the government is retreating under pressure".

In some cases, the Federal Reserve intentionally sacrificed employment levels in order to rein in spiralling inflation, as was the case for the Early 1980s recession, which was induced to alleviate a stagflation problem.

Based on IMF recommendation, the government increased interest rates to 70% pa on February 1998 to control spiralling inflation caused by higher price of imports, but this action killed availability of credit to the corporate sector.

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO The five-o'clock television news gave little coverage to the Mid-Eastern crisis, spiralling inflation, the automobile workers' threatened strike or the dismal standing of the New England Patriots.

I would like to ask you if the Commission believes that these tax measures really have led to the spiralling inflation that is undermining the competitiveness of the Greek economy and what measures you are proposing to the Greek Government to address this issue.

The first series of riots began in Lagos on May 4 when commuters protested against a 500 per cent fare increase imposed by taxi and minibus drivers who were trying to cope with an acute fuel shortage [see p. 38853]and with spiralling inflation.