Sentence examples for pretty weak for from inspiring English sources

"This quarter was pretty weak for consumer spending," Mr. Thomson said.

As I noted in my budget post, this is just as well – employment growth is expected to be pretty weak for at least another couple of years.

"If we vote to leave, I am pretty pessimistic about the housing market... there will be a shock and I think the market will stay pretty weak for some time after that".

And those are pretty weak positives for a currency that was once seen as a challenger to the dollar.

Like most partners, she initially didn't buy into the concept of sex addiction ("it sounded like a pretty weak excuse for an affair") and even when she did start to believe that her husband's behaviour was compulsive, her friends didn't ("they'd look at me in despair, asking since when had sexual desire became a monster that can't be controlled"), leaving her feeling isolated.

A pretty weak offering for a movie star.

This behind-the-curtain tale of supernatural peer pressure is a pretty weak replacement for the original's simple, mysterious riff on "The Shining".

"This would seem pretty weak justification for abrogating the VWP since their travel occurred years ago: Youssef's and Ajaj's in 1992; Moussaoui's and Reid's in 2001.

In the long run, this seems like a pretty weak cultural foundation for a defense of liberal values.

Analysts said they were skeptical about a fundamental change in the market for planes with more than 400 seats, like the A380 and Boeing 747. "Long term, the financial future for the A380 looks pretty weak," said Saj Ahmad, chief analyst for StrategicAero Research in London.

Though the EU is about to introduce common standards, audit rules for European firms are still national, and the enforcement of accounting rules is generally pretty weak.The drive for EU governance reform gained momentum in the wake of America's corporate scandals and the Sarbanes-Oxley act.