Sentence examples for sluggish areas from inspiring English sources

In Arizona, the new plants have widespread support to serve the state's fast-growing population and to promote new growth in economically sluggish areas like Buckeye.

Cautious Optimism Despite the numbers, some in sluggish areas remain hopeful.

Traditionally, eminent domain laws have granted local governments the power to seize property for public projects as roads, parks and libraries not for economic development projects such as hotels and shopping malls that promise to pep up economically sluggish areas, fill tax coffers and more to the point fatten developers' wallets.

At a time when information technology sales are sluggish in areas like financial services and retail, the life-sciences segment will grow at close to a 20percentt clip over the next three years, according to analysts.

The dollar hit a four-year low against the euro.Concerned about the sluggish euro-area economy, the European Central Bank cut interest rates by a quarter-point to 2.5%.

The smallest reservoir at Hart is close to recent new housing, although development is currently as sluggish in the area as elsewhere because of the recession.

Deposition resumed some 35 Ma in the Oligocene epoch on a flood plain that developed in the area; sluggish streams migrated laterally over the surface, laying down cobbles, sand, and mud.

Most of those vacant units cannot be lived in.The recovery has been most sluggish in lower-income areas.

The Federal Reserve Board's beige book of anecdotal dispatches on the economy, published on Wednesday, reported sluggish activity in many areas during October and early November.

"True, weakness in Europe and Japan will restrain overall overseas demand, but those regions represent a shrinking share of U.S. exports, and we have long anticipated sluggish growth in both areas," he said.

The River Severn divides the geographic county of Shropshire into the hilly southwest a series of ridges and "hogsbacks" running northeast-southwest and separated by deep valleys and an undulating drift-covered plain in the northeast, with sluggish streams and large areas of former marsh (e.g., the Wealdmoors), peat mosses, and meres (near Ellesmere).