Sentence examples for long a drag from inspiring English sources

Perhaps more heartening was the 15.3% surge in residential investment, so long a drag on the economy.

Even agriculture, long a drag on the economy, has been achieving steady growth of 3percentt a year thanks to increased investment and higher prices.

Ambitious, albeit delayed, private-public partnerships in roads and railways should see investment of up to $25 billion by 2018.Mr Santos has also implemented a fiscal rule under which the public-sector deficit, long a drag on growth, has fallen steadily, to less than 1% of GDP.

Electrical power has long been a drag on the island's economy.

"Housing, which has long been a drag, has turned into a positive for growth, and will help improve consumer balance sheets and strengthen consumption," Mr. Goldstein said.

Northcliffe has long been a drag on the business, but its relatively new supremo, Steve Auckland, has taken an axe to costs in a restructure of the business.

Currency manipulation has long been a drag on the U.S. economy and our jobs.

Nancy Grace dedicates her show to every aspect of every missing girl, regardless how long a case drags out.

I just always thought, 'They don't wanna know if I'm doing Raskolnikov for the BBC.' " A long drag, a deep breath.

He gives the sound of tobacco burning as someone takes a long drag on a cigarette the same emotional weight as, say, a view of the Japanese countryside from the air.

The rapper Kafon takes a long drag from a joint and rocks his afroed head to a lolling reggae-inspired drumbeat amid the white and grey doldrums of a poor neighborhood in Tunisia.