Sentence examples for sluggish building from inspiring English sources

Only sluggish building permits, a signal of future home construction, pulled down the measure.

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Numerous economists have pointed out that a key in reviving New Jersey's sluggish economy is building new homes that workers can afford to buy.

Fed up with sluggish drains and similar building breakdowns, he preferred new construction.

Prices had fallen at the doorman building amid sluggish sales.

At a sunset cocktail reception on the roof of Steiner Studios at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Mr. Meier, 74, said that he was not affected by the building's sluggish sales because the developer "cut the prices after it was finished".

Mr. Norten ascribed the sluggish sales mainly to the building's location.

The parents were horrified by the conditions in the building and the sluggish pace of the process.

Only the spire of the red-brick Victorian St. Pancras train station and an abandoned old building by the sluggish waters of the Regent's Canal are reminders that this King's Cross area was once a hub of industrial activity, where grain arrived from the countryside to feed London back in 1851.

Hanjin, like other large shipping lines, has struggled with overcapacity brought on by a massive ship building boom and sluggish demand.

Like the rest of the housing market, however, condo hotels are not immune to the slowdown, and several projects, after splashy sales releases, have quietly curtailed building plans because of sluggish sales and rising construction costs.