Sentence examples for because of the drag from inspiring English sources

Private consumption fell 0.1 percent from the first quarter, mostly because of the drag coming from slower auto sales after cash-for-clunker incentives were phased out.

What remains is an estimate of radiation from the lower troposphere.Over time, however, satellites gradually lose altitude because of the drag exerted on them by the atmosphere (a phenomenon known as orbital decay).

Investors had driven up the prices of these large-capitalization stocks earlier in the year based on an earnings outlook that in retrospect was too optimistic, in part because of the drag from Asia.

What's more, the company, based in Bellevue, Wash., continues to lose money over all because of the drag from its Meals.com subsidiary, which provides recipes on the Internet but has only negligible revenue.

That seems unlikely, largely because of the drag from autos — not just the big assemblers, like G.M. and Chrysler, but also the thousands of small companies that supply them with parts.

The Fed, along with many economists, has expected the economy to slow this year, partly because of the drag from reduced exports to Asia, where many economies are battling to avert serious downturns in the aftermath of the financial instability that rocked the region last year.

The results turn out this way simply because of the particular drag model being used.

The mass density of Earth's thermosphere (∼90 600 km altitude) is a critical parameter for low Earth orbit prediction because of the atmospheric drag on satellites in this region.

Multihull catamaran or trimaran designs can be as much as 50 percent more fuel-efficient than traditional monohulls because of the reduced drag on their hull surfaces, and old-fashioned sails remain one of the most energy-efficient means of marine transportation.

Around this mere suggestion of a character, Jeffrey Hatcher, adapting his play "Compleat Female Stage Beauty," has written a film about a man who seems, to modern eyes, as gay as they come, not just because of the frequent drag and the sex scene with Ben Chaplin (playing his patron) but because of his decidedly camp hauteur.

Even with these three methods, the velocity of trains could not be improved remarkably because of the aerodynamic drag.