Sentence examples for sluggish results from inspiring English sources

Recently, it reported revenue of $1.59bn in its first quarter alone, in spite of sluggish results last year.

Fourth-quarter profits surged for Target as a robust performance at its discount store offset continued sluggish results at its Marshall Field's and Mervyn's stores.

Merck & Company, the nation's second-biggest drug maker, reported sluggish results for the third quarter yesterday and said it planned to cut as many as 4,400 jobs.

Known for good shopping and ethnic eating, Toronto had seen its tourism industry suffer somewhat sluggish results since the late 1990's anyway, but SARS hit the city's image like a hammer.

The pace of growth is almost certain to pick up in the near term, if only because sales and earnings in future quarters will be compared to the sluggish results of this year.

Carol A. Bartz, who joined Yahoo as chief executive two years ago, has been trying to revive the growth after several years of sluggish results and an inability to capitalize on the rise of social networking, now dominated by Facebook.

The overall sluggish result led some analysts to scale back their growth forecasts for the year and predict that the Bank of England would keep interest rates steady at 4.75percentt.

Because Li ions must travel through the inactive W layer, which is not an ion-conductive material as discussed in the EIS test, the ion transport during discharging might be sluggish, resulting in irreversibility.

The noon start produced some sluggish, sloppy results — a combined 28 missed shots and 15 turnovers in the first quarter.

The company's international unit, which had until recently been growing at a fast clip, also turned in sluggish quarterly results, with sales growing 2.9 percent, to $33 billion.

The McDonald's Corporation intends to continue opening new restaurants at a rapid pace, its chief executive said today, despite sluggish recent results that have prompted some analysts to question its ambitious strategy.