Sentence examples for continuing drag from inspiring English sources

This burden has been a continuing drag on spending.

As the Federal Reserve has detailed, falling housing prices are a continuing drag on the recovery.

This prevents a continuing drag on profits that would result from writing off the purchase price over several years.

To the contrary, however, some authorities believed that huge foreign debts would act as a continuing drag on growth and could have catastrophic results.

Rentokil Initial hit a near two year high after better than expected profits, despite the continuing drag of its struggling parcels business City Link.

"Since the EU vote, we expect the current political uncertainty – and potential weakness in the UK's short- to medium-term economic outlook – is likely to act as a continuing drag on consumer confidence," he said.

Anything short of that will just allow them to continue dragging us along their damaging path.

Others laugh as they continue dragging him along the street, trying to decide where to dump him.

Besides, they continue, dragging out negotiations and hence keeping sanctions in place serves the guards' economic interests, since they control smuggling networks earning billions of dollars.This argument suffers from several problems.

Indeed, there are good reasons to expect its slide to continue, dragging it below the record low of $1.36 against the euro that it hit in December 2004.The recent decline was triggered by nasty news about the American economy.

"The public deserves to know what is in those emails, well before Nov. 8, and the State Department should not continue dragging its feet on producing them," the group's president, Tom Fitton, said in a statement.