Sentence examples for slow down work from inspiring English sources

Beijing sits in the middle of an industrial belt of coal-burning factories, and there is little incentive for officials or executives to slow down work there.

Judicial vacancies have skyrocketed from 43 to 89. "Instead of working to make government function, to make government more efficient, Senate Republicans have made it their priority to keep key positions empty for so long as possible, to hamstring efforts to protect consumers and workers, to delay efforts to hold large corporations accountable, to slow down work to promote equality," Warren said.

9 Note that I am suggesting a blend of two of Solberg's 'Three Faces of Performance Measurement' 10 measurement for improvement and measurement for research in which it is important not to slow down work by obsessing about fastidious measurement while still measuring precisely enough for the results to be credible.

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei, has said that there are signs of Iran slowing down work on the enrichment plant it is building in Natanz.

However, the Russian government slowed down work on Bushehr this year over what it said was a payment dispute, but which was widely seen as a veiled effort to add to the pressure on Iran to halt enrichment.

Slowing down work "amounts to a strike with pay, and we will reduce the extent to which we pay premium rates for such a strike," said Wade Gates, spokesman for the Pacific Maritime Assn., the employer group representing the shipping companies.

I slow down, working the accelerator and the clutch to insure that the engine doesn't cough out.

The view that "millionaires and billionaires" will stop, or slow down, working or investing may be a myth.

The port operators accused the union of violating the back-to-work injunction by slowing down work at several ports.

He vowed to investigate whether the rank-and-file deliberately slowed down work to protest budget cuts, as has been rumored, but said he doubted it.

In this dispute, Mr. Bush is dealing with a famously militant union, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, which is known for slowing down work when it is unhappy.