Sentence examples for a weak run of from inspiring English sources

That ended a weak run of figures starting in January, when lending to those taking their first step on the ladder dived 27%.

The data also follows a weak run of data for the UK economy following falls in construction and manufacturing output in July and a ballooning goods deficit.

Insurer Old Mutual was the top performer of the day, rallying to a 16-month high as investors made the most of a weak run against its peers to buy into the stock.

Wall Street had been on something of a weak run recently, as the first-quarter earnings season got off to a middling start.

Democrats gave up on Obama immediately and let their opponents construct the narrative of a weak president run over by forceful challenger.

I'm not sure that lets his advisers completely off the hook; there's a big difference between saying, well, the macroeconomic case says this should be bigger, but smaller is OK, and saying — as they should have, and maybe some did — that a weak stimulus runs a large risk of setting us on a path toward a lost decade.

Although the notion of US input as weak runs counter to prevailing views of the nature of associative learning (as well as the associative or Hebbian LTP model of fear conditioning [36], [37]), we postulate that the 'weakness' of US input may be limited to this particular subset of neurons.

Traders and investors are hoping for another cut in interest rates when the Federal Reserve meets next week, and a recent run of weak economic statistics has persuaded some of them that a cut is likely.

A repeat of this seems more likely than a run of weak characters in the White House.

Philip Roth's The Dying Animal, in which an ageing literature professor sets out to conquer a Cuban beauty, is the weak exception in a run of brilliant latterday novels.

New employers may be unaware of their true productivity, or have only a weak signal of their long-run profitability, and, therefore, may only know their optimal size with some error.