Sentence examples for he was lagging from inspiring English sources

In an interview with progressive bloggers, the president was asked why he was lagging behind Republicans like Ted Olson on gay marriage.

It's been a little more than a month since Mitt Romney's presidential campaign conspicuously declared a "reset," when he was lagging in the polls and his prospects seemed grim.

With polls suggesting that he was lagging far behind, Mr. Gingrich, a former House speaker, was trying to avoid a lopsided defeat to carry his campaign forward to the next series of nominating contests, which kick off Saturday as the focus shifts to Nevada.

Since then, her explanations have evolved, from saying that he was lagging on filling trooper vacancies and tackling alcohol-abuse problems in rural Alaska to showing an "intolerable pattern of insubordination" and a "rogue mentality" by resisting her authority and spending reforms, sometimes publicly.

At this point in his presidential election cycle, in July 2007, he was lagging in the polls behind former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R).

He is lagging behind in the polls.

"Where he's lagging is among white voters, and with older ones in particular," John Heilemann wrote in New York magazine this month.

Third set, Nadal leads Murray* 6-4, 7-6, 1-3: Rafa Nadal scowls over at the board and sees that he's lagging behind.

He's lagging behind even fellow non-exec William Macaulay, whose £1.5m purchase on Friday may fail to convince as a vote of confidence.

Maybe one day I can walk him around the park twice, but the next day he's lagging so we go around once.

But while Mr. Obama has moved quickly to assemble his White House staff and the beginnings of a cabinet, he is lagging behind even the chronically late President Bill Clinton in bringing clarity to the role his vice president will play.