Sentence examples for principal drag from inspiring English sources

Well, pretty much everyone here is upset about the breakdown of fiscal policy, which is becoming a principal drag on growth.

Beneath the blazing August sun, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took the stage in front of Coors Field's outfield bleachers and said that importing energy "is the principal drag on American capitalism and American prosperity".

Nevsky Prospekt, the city's principal drag, offered prime cruising for peacocked boys in fetching hussar stripes and tight, white breeches.

This is the principal of drag in action — the air pushes against the big, wide face of the paper, producing drag and causing it to pass through the air much more slowly than the pebble, which has a relatively small cross-sectional area.

Comically upstaged by the drummer, Mr. Kalina, the evening's principal catalyst, dragged him across the floor.

Any significant step forward by China will rob the US Senate of one of its principal arguments for dragging its feet.

We have learned, for example, that the mortgage servicers have been unholy disasters, foreclosing on homeowners incorrectly, fighting principal reduction and dragging their feet on mortgage modifications that would have helped people stay in their homes.

A spouse's bad hair day or illness will drag the principal's campaign down, just as surely as pictures of their alluring behinds (Michelle Obama and Carla Bruni) or personal revelations about their husbands' human foibles can arouse the public's interest and support.

There is a tendency by the countries which pay most of the bills to portray the poorer ones, grouped in the G77 of 134 nations, as a drag on modernisation and the principal obstacle to reform.

1738 1824) – born in Chota John Watts (1753 1802) – nephew of Old Tassel, principal chief of the Chickamauga/Lower Cherokee after Dragging Canoe died in 1792.

His account records in gruesome detail how the would-be assassin was executed: "dragged asunder, then beheaded, and his body divided into three parts; each part was then dragged through one of the principal cities of England, and was afterwards hung on a gibbet used for robbers".