Sentence examples for a weak starting point from inspiring English sources

In its report, the commission attributed the grim outlook in part to a "weak starting point" in 2012, including the likely worsening of the government debt crisis in countries like Spain during the first half of the year, which fed concerns about the viability of the euro and added to stresses in the banking sector.

That nobody believes she is personally corrupt might not prevent an attempt to impeach her, though that still looks improbable.No modern Brazilian president has faced a weaker starting point.

The briefing paper also cautions that the party will enter the election campaign from a "historically weak starting point".

Therefore the Tories are unlikely to manage the huge swing and massive gains that, because of their weak starting point and the inbuilt biases of the electoral system, they need to win an overall majority.Most politicians, instinctively and oedipally, judge themselves against their illustrious forebears in this way.

Initially, there was some concern that the service was off to a weak start, leading to questions about its higher price point – $15 per month, compared with much cheaper streaming options from Netflix and Hulu.

After a weak start, the Nasdaq composite index closed up 116.39 points, or 4.6percentto to 2,640.57.

A weak start on Wall Street did little to inspire dealers in Britain, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down nearly 100 points as London closed.

As individual p62-ubiquitin interactions are rather weak, the starting point of the polyubiquitinylated aggregate formation is presumably the p62 self-oligomerization via its PB1 domain [ 61].

Owing to the remarkable intramolecular charge transfer effect as well as intramolecular rotations associated with the donor moiety, the probe exhibits extremely weak fluorescence, which becomes a good starting point for developing fluorescence "turn-on" probes.

Structure-based drug design strategies led to the discovery of potent sub-micromolar inhibitors 11a c and 12a c from a weak-binding fragment-like structure 1 as a starting point.

Just a good starting point".