Sentence examples for lacklustre year from inspiring English sources

After leaving the Cubs, he spent one lacklustre year with the Chicago White Sox.

In Turkey, the Islamist party meekly allowed the army to shoo it out of government after one lacklustre year.

After a lacklustre year with the Orioles, Sosa sat out the 2006 season, but he returned to professional play in 2007 as a member of the Texas Rangers.

It arrives after a lacklustre year at the Oscars for the Weinstein Company with just one win - at odds with their track record.

In what was generally a rather lacklustre year for London's orchestras, the Philharmonia's Stravinsky series, curated by chief conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen, stood out for its freshness and originality.

Although it reaffirms the current restrictive fiscal policy the agreement keeps the target of a primary fiscal surplus (that is, before interest payments) of 3¾% of GDP it does not tighten it any further.The bigger question is whether Brazil can return to robust economic growth after a lacklustre year.

He described himself as an omnivorous reader of books from the local library, making up for his lacklustre years at High Wycombe technical high school.

And with such birthday gifts as the Coen brothers' droll screwball comedy Intolerable Cruelty - which mildly lampoons the star personas of George Clooney and Catherine Zeta Jones by making him a cynical divorce lawyer, her a ruthless gold-digger - the festival looked set to grant a late reprieve to a lacklustre film year.

France, which also has an executive presidency, went to a seven-year term, but returned to five during the lacklustre Chirac years.

Perhaps it is to remind him of the battles he faces as he tries to turn around a sprawling, $90 billion technology company, following years of lacklustre performance.One year after he took the job, following the forced departure of the flashy but flawed Carly Fiorina, Mr Hurd has started to revive the fortunes of a legendary Silicon Valley firm.

And the 2008 fall season was one of the most lacklustre in years.