Sentence examples for severely lagging from inspiring English sources

Appalachia was identified as one of the regions in the United States that was severely lagging in economic development.

A report released last month by Amnesty International said the country's authorities are severely lagging behind on efforts to address the rampant abuse of migrant workers' rights.

Cisco Chairman and Chief Executive John Chambers told Forbes.com that he worries that the U.S. is severely lagging other countries in the roll-out of second-generation Internet technology.

With respect to wireless communications, positioning is severely lagging behind in terms of standardization efforts: when it comes to terrestrial-based positioning, be it indoor or outdoor, an international agreement on a set of standard techniques to be developed and adopted still has to come.

The up-tick in semiconductors, which began last December when nearly all were in the depths of utmost despair, has been followed in classic fashion by the rest of high tech, financials, industrials, energy and a consumer complex that by all rights should be severely lagging as it represented undue borrowing and overspending.

On top of Trump's overall problems, his get-out-the-vote operation is severely lagging behind Clinton's.

He said that housing remained in a depression and was "the major reason a recovery in employment has so severely lagged the steady and substantial comeback we have seen in almost all other sectors of our economy".

The 42% of the time that the S&P showed a positive return severely lagged all other scenarios, as well as random periods.

Meanwhile, even though techs were a favorite among some investors in 2006, the returns of this group, while positive, severely lagged those of their blue-chip and small-cap counterparts, logging a gain of only 9.5%.

My sources tell me that Riecke's departure is related to an internal war the company is having between those who want to throw in the towel and offer to sell to Facebook, which with 800,000 users severely lags behind studiVZ's 10m, and those who want to tough it out for the foreseable future.

In Chile the comparable number is 51 weeks; Canada, 28; the U.S., 8. (In New Zealand, by the way, it's 0!) Mexico also severely lags other countries in the time it takes to register property and in the cost of doing so.