(1) The 1932 annual meeting, held at the nadir of the company's fortunes, was even stormier.

(2) The nadir of British fortunes in the Middle East had been reached.

(3) In 1997, the company's nadir , it built just six boats.

(4) The company's most recent analyst meeting took place on April 4-the same day the dot-com devaluation hit its nadir .

(5) Although Alchemy's history is relatively short, it is not short of examples of successful trawls of companies whose fortunes have reached a nadir .

(6) Respected and convivial, he was scarcely the man to rejuvenate the party in the nadir of its fortunes, though he did reunite the two wings.

(7) As a result, in the early 1980s, the system had reached its nadir , with tracks throughout the system in such an advanced state of disrepair that trains were forced to move very slowly just to avoid derailing.

(8) He believes that the FTSE - 100 index will not sink below the recent nadir of 5179.6 points it reached in March.

(9) Its stock, which had been flat-lining for years, is five times higher than at its nadir in November, 2002, and up 48% since January.

(10) In 2001, at the nadir of her fortunes, she met East Coast native Catania when they were double-booked at a Hollywood club.

(11) The decade 1925-35 represented a nadir in the fortunes of the news agency.

(12) They had reached the nadir of their sufferings

(13) However, it went too far, and Sullivan's reputation reached its nadir during the first twenty years of the new century.

(14) The announcement has come at what may be the nadir of the fortunes of the telecommunications companies.

(15) Asking that question was the nadir of my career

(16) If a planet culminates, sets or is on the nadir at the same time that a star occupies one of the sacred earth-generated angles, then that star walks with that planet.

(17) A number of black, middle-class residents never abandoned the storied neighborhood even when it was at its economic nadir , when it was rocked by a devastating epidemic of drugs, crime and neglect.

(18) This defeat marked the nadir of imperial fortunes in the later stages of the war.

(19) From a high of 9.6 per cent, it has steadily declined to reach its nadir in 1999-2000 of 7.1 per cent.

(20) Yet 7 years on from that nadir in the club fortunes, Doncaster Rovers are in rude health and aiming for their highest League position since the 1950s.