Sentence examples for respectable pace from inspiring English sources
The Turkish economy is chugging along at a respectable pace and attracting foreign money.
Retail sales were sluggish during the crucial holiday season, but the government estimated on Wednesday that consumer spending climbed at a modest but respectable pace of about 2percentt in the fourth quarter of 2007.
While this is still a respectable pace of growth, any slowdown will reinforce fears in financial markets that the UK cannot insulate itself against troubles in the eurozone and further afield.
In the past, many foreign economists and policy makers lamented that the fractious democracy in India could not build infrastructure and lift people out of poverty at a respectable pace, but there now seems to be more optimism about the country.
Last year at least it grew at a respectable pace, by about 16%, but recently growth has been running at less than half that rate.The effect of the decline is hard to measure because of two human qualities: ingenuity and endurance.
The drone from traffic on the parallel Quai des Celestins, higher up the river bank, suggests traffic there is moving along at a respectable pace – confounding those doomsayers who suggested the controversial scheme to pedestrianise two miles of city centre highway would bring neighbouring roads to a standstill.
Recent data confirm that the economy is slowing even though growth is expected to increase this year by an annual pace of at least 4percentt -- a respectable rate for most countries but half of South Korea's annual pace of 9percentt last year.
For a while, Ello grew at a respectable, manageable pace.
Mr. Bush is correct in saying that the economy is strengthening, and growth this spring was at a respectable annual pace of 3percentt.
The economy grew at a respectable 2.9% annual pace in the July-through-September quarter, the government estimated last week.
The talented actor Terry Kinney turns feature-film director to guide a regiment of equally appealing performers — Alan Alda, Matthew Broderick, Virginia Madsen, Lois Smith, Dylan Baker, Bobby Cannavale — through their respectable if pedestrian paces in the comedy-drama hybrid "Diminished Capacity".
