Sentence examples for slow gears from inspiring English sources

Both critics and supporters are waiting to see how — or if — the Vatican's slow gears engage.

In a banalised and depthless American postmodernity he saw Miltonian struggle: devils swarming into classrooms, the slow gears of ancient conspiracies churning beneath the surface of everyday life, a world so much grander and more cosmic than it actually is.

"This is like the Holocaust, in slow gear," said Tippy Ankari, a friend of Mr. Anter's grief-stricken parents.

The Danish Riviera dog legs 230km along the top of Nordsjaelland (North Zealand) from just north of Copenhagen in the east to Sejerøbugten in the west, and there's no better way of savouring this living kolde bord – what the Danes call their equivalent of a smörgåsbord – than by bicycle and in a low, slow gear.

The book moves into a slower gear when it begins concentrating on individual productions.

And even as he slumbers like countless other college students, he says, he feels strange, as if the world around him had shifted into a slower gear.

For Judith Mackrell, the second half of the evening, an ensemble performance of Kenneth MacMillan's Winter Dreams, put the evening "into a slower gear" but others were impressed by the delivery of a "fantastic cast" (Sarah Crompton) on "top form" (Allen Robertson).

Investors have feared for months that ailing banks will pull back on issuing loans to businesses and consumers, slowing the gears of the nation's economic engine.

Lots of Europeans breathed a sigh of relief when the Irish voted to support the German-engineered fiscal compact last week, avoiding one more wrench in the slow-grinding gears of Europe's recovery.

Gasoline wholesale marketers have been slow to gear up ethanol blending terminals, in part because they had to invest simultaneously in equipment to manage low sulfur diesel and tougher product specifications.

But Ms. Hagan and her supporters had a head start — they ran attack advertisements all summer, and political analysts said the Dole campaign had been slow to gear up its response.