Sentence examples for is looking short of from inspiring English sources

Or maybe it's another one of those there mind games... Lade, who sadly is looking short of confidence right now, hesitates and makes a bad pass that's straight across to a DC shirt, but Pajoy can't fashion a chance with DC briefly holding a man advantage.

With Wayne Rooney suspended for the opening two games of the European Championship, the next England manager is looking short of striking options.

England are looking short of wicket-takers here, and to be honest, Flintoff's response to the scandals of the past week, and all those promises about making amends, haven't really amounted to the inspired performance I was hoping he'd produce.

Eliot Spitzer, New York state's attorney-general, is looking at short-selling as part of his battle against Wall Street.Japan's government toughened its rules on short sales as part of an anti-deflation package announced in February last year.

United were looking desperately short of ideas.

Not because Germany are threatening to extend their lead – although Müller's just had a shot deflected wide from 18 yards – but because they're looking very short of ideas.

And by the end England were looking horribly short of ideas as their troubled tour went through another disheartening day.

Yet, he concedes, it looks unlikely that quantum parallelism can breach the complexity class containing the problem of the proverbial traveling salesman (who is looking for the shortest itinerary through a list of cities) and the problem of protein folding in the cell -- let alone the still harder class into which mathematical theorem proving and (probably) chess playing fall.

Yet even when Chelsea were leading they looked short of confidence, and when the game began to sprint away from them they and their manager seemed at a loss to understand what was happening, let alone remedy the situation.

The tourists' attack, hitherto the only thing keeping them competitive in the three-match series, stuck to their task but were made to look short of ideas.

With the high price of fuel raising the cost of flying, Air France is looking into replacing some of its short-haul European flights with high-speed rail service, in partnership with a French train operator, a move that analysts said could lead to significant savings.