Sentence examples for slow to devise from inspiring English sources
European leaders have been slow to devise a resolution for the debt crisis in Greece, which has rippled through the European banking system and into other European countries.
Elsewhere, though, you have to dig deep to get at useful amounts of heat, and it is certainly true that exploration and drilling costs have remained stubbornly high for the deeper wells needed outside hot-spring regions, and that developers have been slow to devise better ways of extracting heat from such rocks, even if wells are sunk.
No matter which way the political winds blow, there are two reasons oil is selling for more than $40 a barrel: because the worldwide production of liquid fuels is very unstable; and because we have been slow to devise alternative ways to power vehicles, especially S.U.V.'s.
The country has been too slow, she said, to devise long-term solutions to prevent energy shortages.
Because the scoring system no longer rewards overall aesthetic beauty, skaters, coaches, and choreographers instead devote their efforts to poring over the codes and reviewing slow-motion video, hoping to devise new features that will enhance the base values of required elements or squeeze out an extra GOE point.
The challenge for evolutionary biologists is to devise ways to slow the drug treadmill.
By staying out, it slows missions down because of the need to devise a special bolt-on arrangement for France each time NATO acts.
Still, it is in Doha that the slow-turning wheels of global politics will try to devise plans to both mitigate climate change and adapt to it.
Recovery from the 2008 financial crash has been slow and thus far incomplete, placing acute pressure on policymakers to devise new approaches to unfamiliar economic hardships.
The international community has failed to devise a coherent policy that might reverse or even slow the North's accelerating efforts to become a full-fledged nuclear state.
It has reaffirmed the international community's utter failure to devise a policy that might reverse, or at least slow, the North's nuclear program.
