Sentence examples for slow to serve from inspiring English sources

During a card game, Joe Pesci's Tommy, clowning around, shoots a teen-ager who's slow to serve him a drink.

Island, the largest electronic communications network, has refused to participate in the Intermarket Trading System links, arguing that they are too slow to serve its investors.

When the hotel's black waitstaff was slow to serve Zantzinger another drink, he yelled racial epithets at Hattie Carroll, a barmaid and a fifty-one-year-old mother of eleven, and he rapped her on the shoulder with his cane.

The announcement is remarkable for a firm whose lawyers in recent years boasted that they represented the future of the legal business and criticized their New York competitors as too slow to serve nimble start-up technology companies and Internet ventures.

But why has the US film industry been slow to serve the female audience?

Sunday morning brought a hunger that reminded me of when, at the age of 18 months (so my parents recount), I stood up in my chair at a slow-to-serve restaurant and cried out, "I want Chinese food!

Invented in the 3rd millennium bc, the first chariots seem to have been too slow and cumbersome to serve in combat, but about 2000 bc the light, horse-drawn, two-wheeled vehicles destined to revolutionize tactics appeared in the Western Steppe and Mesopotamia, Syria, and Turkey, from which they spread in all directions.

Although Hedgehog signaling is required for the specification of adaxial-derived slow-muscle fibers in the embryo [4, 5], we show that in the absence of Hh signaling, stratified hyperplastic growth of slow muscle occurs at the correct time and place, despite the complete absence of embryonic slow-muscle fibers to serve as a scaffold for addition of these new slow-muscle fibers.

By paying a reported $20 million to hitch a ride with the cash-starved Russian space program, he has bulled his way onto the station over the objections of the other partner nations and is now realizing the dream of a lifetime while the professional astronauts aboard slow their work schedule to serve as baby sitters.

Whenever he came in, the staff would decant themselves into the back room, leaving the slowest at the counter to serve him.

Moreover, the P-laden engineered biochar derived from cow dung can be reused as soil amendment to serve as slow-release P fertilizer.