Sentence examples for an already sluggish from inspiring English sources

But it also risks adding more bureaucracy to an already sluggish system.

But Meg Siegel, a Sotheby's real estate broker, said the requirements had outlived their time and had only held up an already sluggish market.

Those lobbying for government assistance, along with the Bush administration, contend that inadequate amounts of terrorism insurance have been an added strain on an already sluggish economy.

The result, ultimately, of this vicious circle is a persistent increase in borrowing costs that, over time, begins to supersede an already sluggish rate of growth and become what economists call a debt trap.

James C. Morford, president of the New Jersey Food Council, said his organization had lobbied against the bill because it feared that higher taxes would slow an already sluggish economy.

Senators said they had become convinced that government intervention was necessary to ensure that terrorism coverage becomes widely available at affordable prices, thus eliminating what many of them said was an increasingly significant drag on an already sluggish economy.

An economy that was already sluggish and consumer confidence that was already depleted had retailers in a bind before the events of last week.

Any slowdown in the growth rate, of course, could have a further dampening effect by depressing already sluggish consumer confidence, which is hitting lows not seen since the middle of the most recent recession.

"It is not a pretty picture," said André Sapir, a former adviser to the European Commission president who led a landmark study of the union in 2003 that proposed a host of changes to raise competitiveness and already sluggish economic growth.

That is going to hurt the already sluggish economy, which has been struggling to turn in an average annual growth rate of 2.1% since the current expansion began.

Renewed fighting would further slow the already sluggish reconstruction drive, and heap tragedy upon tragedy.