Sentence examples for slow to drop from inspiring English sources

At the same time, our results show that while clients, especially browsers, are quick to adopt new algorithms, they are also slow to drop support for older ones.

Buthelezi, never slow to drop a name or two, also describes taking tea with the Duke of Edinburgh at Buckingham Palace in the early 1970s and a friendship with the Prince of Wales lasting decades.

Finding an argument where any application will forever live in isolation in someone's backend server room is increasingly difficult, but as Google, Amazon or Microsoft will tell you, the theoretical penny is slow to drop and the adoption speed doesn't match the rational view of its potential.

As productive as he was in college, Sam was generally regarded by NFL evaluators as a tweener, someone too small to be an effective defensive end, and too slow to drop into pass coverage — at least at an elite level.

Perhaps once deer mice learn that a food is safe and nutritious, particularly if the learning takes place in a context in which this food is the best nutritive option, they are slow to drop this food from the diet, even when another food, with different sensory qualities, offers a nutritionally equivalent reward.

The mile-long drop zone in north-central Poland was just 180 miles from the major Russian military base at Kaliningrad, well within range of Russian missiles designed to shoot down aircraft like the lumbering C-17s that slowed to drop the paratroopers.

It never occurred to her that the move to a harbor town 100 miles east of Manhattan would cause her, year by year in slow motion, to drop off the edge of the New York art world.

This time and energy is lost when trains must slow down to drop off and pick up passengers and then re-accelerate.

Somewhere around the Toys R Us on Old Kent Road he starts muttering about how he's been a "bad friend" to his customers, presumably because he's using quite a slow bus to drop off their drugs.

The capsule containing Curiosity will enter the atmosphere at 13,200 mph and have less than seven minutes to slow down enough to drop the rover gently onto the surface of the planet.

The Chinese leadership has also announced a target of a 20% cut in energy use per unit of GDP by 2010.The risk is that new supplies of commodities will come on stream just as global demand starts to slow, causing prices to drop sharply.