Sentence examples for sluggish side from inspiring English sources

"Consumer spending will still be on the sluggish side in the second half".

"Employment is still on the fairly sluggish side," said Ed McKelvey, an economist at Goldman Sachs.

The fugue, which represents scientific knowledge in Strauss's Nietzschean scheme, was on the sluggish side, while the following section, The Convalescent, felt a bit dogged.

MARKET OVERVIEW The Cornish residential property market was on the "sluggish" side last year, said Ian Lillicrap, the director of Lillicrap Chilcott, the company listing the house, but it has picked up in 2010.

Although the pace of endorsements has remained somewhat on the sluggish side — meaning that there are plenty of governors, senators and key state officeholders who remain unaligned to a campaign — a candidate like Mr. Gingrich would have a lot of work to do if he wanted to catch up.

And while that power play never quite gelled, the Lightning left a sluggish Blackhawks side behind them as they returned to the dressing room at the second intermission.

The laws of the game stipulate that there should be 90 overs bowled in a day, or 15 an hour, with the threat of fines and suspensions to chivvy along a sluggish fielding side.

Jones is also cheerfully taking aim at assorted other targets, from New Zealand's dominance of the world player of the year awards ("The Kiwis run everything, mate. When you run everything, you've got a good chance of winning") to the Lions head coach ("I'm not Warren Gatland. I don't look like him, he's got a few kilos on me") and a currently sluggish Welsh side.

Corofin were able to produce a potent mix of running football and the long game which a sluggish Slaughtneil side simply couldn't handle.

Mayor Karl Dean preferred the Sulphur Dell site, in an attempt to bolster economic growth on downtown's sluggish North side, while incorporating the ballpark into the surrounding neighborhoods.

Walter Smith's side were sluggish by comparison, relying primarily on physical strength rather than finesse to bring goals from Kenny Miller (two), Lee McCulloch and Steven Naismith.