Sentence examples for contributed to slack from inspiring English sources

The economic downturn was the main cause of poor recent results, but a cool summer also contributed to slack demand.

The substantial declines in the prices of energy and other commodities last year and the growing margin of economic slack have contributed to a substantial lessening of inflation pressures.

Chips for products such as routers, wireless handsets and TV set-top boxes will hopefully pick up the slack, but have contributed to a 33% jump in research and development expenses in the past year to $427 million.

To begin to answer these questions, we conducted in-depth interviews of knowledge workers in different industries to understand what motivated them to take risks and explore new ideas, and, more specifically, whether and how slack resources might have contributed to their innovativeness.

The Firhill men contributed to the loss of the opener with a slack ball into a central area that Abdul Osman failed to gather.

The different pacing of foreign universities can also contribute to the slacker culture.

3) It was received very well, and a lot of people identified with what we were doing which made me very happy but also contributed to my feeling that there could be no slacking off.

A machinist knew exactly what his working hour contributed to the bottom line, and therefore the cost of slacking off.

That has created an oversupply of issues on the Tokyo stock market, which already suffers from slack demand and reduced interest from foreign investors, and has contributed to the Nikkei reaching its 16-month low earlier in the week.

Uncertainty has contributed to the current problem.It is time to draw some firm boundaries, in such a way that MPs are cut the slack they need to do their job.

Take Slack Technologies: An interesting mix of artistic types (a co-founder with a philosophy degree, for example) and engineers has contributed to the success of the company and its ubiquitous collaborative work software.