And that has been an unqualified failure, a mismatch of talent and task, because the slow-starting Dayne appears more sluggish when asked to perform after long intervals between carries.
Sperm may be strong swimmers in their, um, "natural habitat," but they become notoriously sluggish when you ask them to do their thing in a petri dish.
But, the sluggish pace also makes us ask whether White House politics could be dragging out an investigation of considerable importance to New Yorkers and to Washington.
Besides, in the light of his transfer request, Liverpool regulars are entitled to revisit Torres's sluggish early-season form and ask whether the team's future could have been built around someone so ready to disengage.
So if we know that ratings can influence the market, and we know that companies that pay attention to their ESG metrics tend to prosper, we are led to ask: why the sluggish uptake of ESG in company and credit analysis?
Pointing to the sluggish global economy he asked, "What strategies would bring about growth?" Mr. Xi likened protectionism to "locking oneself in a dark room" in the hopes of protecting oneself from danger, but in so doing, cutting off all "light and air".
But haven't we all been there, asking before our sluggish brains catch up with our thoughts?
The sluggish phase that prevails until February asks for a purge of clutter and outworn "stuff".
Murdock checks in with researchers regularly and impatiently, asking them why science is so stubbornly sluggish.
After a sluggish 2006, new homes are selling for their million-dollar asking prices, especially in New Howard Beach, said Cecilia M. Calcagnile, an associate broker with Century 21 Amiable Realty Group II.
