Sentence examples for slow official from inspiring English sources

In fact, the Commission on Elections managed to waste billions of pesos on half-implemented schemes, including a national database of voters and an electronically transmitted "quick count" of results to complement the painstakingly slow official paper-trail.

The walls of David Rockwell's set — a homage to the original white box set at the Public — are carved with headlines and talismanic words that chart the rapid progress of a disease and the slow official response to it.

The head of the election commission collapsed dramatically two days before the vote, after the Supreme Court threw out his plans for a quick count to complement the slow official one.That now means weeks of suspense about the results, although exit polls show Gloria Arroyo, the incumbent, leading the race for the presidency.

The public became angry due to the slow official response to victims who needed supplies.

Rolling up my virtual sleeves, I bravely plunged into the (painfully slow) official Chinese-language website and a second, more corporate version to try and glean some facts.

A slow official response makes it easy for the public to forget about incidents of police brutality, sluggish and ineffective complaint protocols make it difficult for incidents to become cases, and the common practice of essentially forcing people to take payouts makes it impossible for cases to effect change in the legal system.

They have also promised about $340 million for reconstruction, a European commitment, but that money and the approval process for projects have also been extremely slow, officials say.

Regulators were no more bothersome than in other emerging markets.Now, growth is slowing: official data released this week confirm that the economy grew by 7.4% last year, the slowest rate in 24 years.

BEIJING — The Chinese economy grew faster than expected last month even as inflation slowed, official statistics showed on Friday, as the government continued heavy lending through its state-owned banks to rekindle growth.

Just as governments prefer to intervene in currency markets when the momentum of a currency's movement slows, officials in Asian markets like Taiwan and Hong Kong have preferred to wait for a time when their stock interventions might have the greatest effect.

And even though inflation is soaring and economic growth has slowed, officials say that if the government can raise the money for reconstruction, the economy may still grow at a healthy rate of 6to8percententhis yearar.