Sentence examples for persistent drag from inspiring English sources

Beginning in 2009, the euro-zone debt crisis acted as a persistent drag on Austria's economic health, as consumer confidence sagged and exports declined.

American debt loads would constitute a persistent drag on growth, he noted, but could be reduced through an increase in the price level.

Now that the bubble has burst, that debt is acting as a persistent drag on the economy, preventing any real recovery in employment.

That will be essential because the fiscal retrenchment needed to sort out the public finances will act as a persistent drag on the economy.

I.B.M. is renowned for its chip design and manufacturing expertise, but recent losses have prompted analysts to question whether the problem is a temporary setback in execution or a persistent drag on the company's performance.

The far greater gap between India and China is in the provision of essential public services — a failing that depresses living standards and is a persistent drag on growth.

FOR a brief moment last fall, it looked as though the American housing sector might not be the persistent economic drag economists had feared.

HONG KONG — Two of the largest economies in the world, China and Japan, presented fresh data on Monday that underscored the persistent economic drag on the global economy despite the efforts of policy makers and central bankers around the world.

Of the five single gene selections, SSIIa, Sub1, xa5, Xa21 and TPS, only selection for Xa21 showed large, persistent linkage drag.

The best strategy to pyramid or introduce multiple genes and recover a maximum recurrent parent background effect in the shortest time will be to take up the transfer of genes simultaneously, generate a large backcross population and select the target genes through foreground selection and flanking marker analysis to reduce the persistent linkage drag (Rajpurohit et al.2011 Ye,20100).2011 Ye,2010

The problem of persistent linkage drag when selecting for Xa21 may due to the fact that Xa21 was derived from IRBB21, which inherited the chromosomal region containing Xa21 from the wild species Oryza longistaminata through several cycles of backcrossing with indica rice (Song et al. 1995).