Sentence examples for sluggish trend from inspiring English sources

Recognizing the sluggish trend, the European Central Bank reduced interest rates by half a percentage point on Dec. 5.

The decline is part of a recent sluggish trend that has convinced some economists that globalisation has stalled in recent years.

The Japan Airlines chairman, Masaru Onishi, said that airline's Europe-bound cargo volume from Japan and the rest of Asia was down about 5 percent from the level of a year ago, continuing a sluggish trend that began in April.

All told, Goldman expects a "sluggish trend" of about 2.5% growth for several years.

The ONS said that the "bumpy economy" was on a "sluggish trend".

Autos are back to their sluggish trend, even as consumption of everything except autos increases.

We feel such an assumption will come to fruition by way of stronger denim sales; we have noticed industry momentum in denim recently, after a year of sluggish trends.

To supply the demand, Indian companies like the Bangalore-based Infosys Technologies and Wipro, and Tata Consultancy Services, or T.C.S., of Bombay, part of the Tata conglomerate, have been hiring by the hundreds, bucking the generally sluggish global trend.

Even so, that sales figure was down from $38.1 billion in 2008, which had been a surprising increase over the $25.7 billion in 2007 that defied sluggish economic trends.

But we're talking analysis here, not poetic justice; and the truth is that growth from 1992 to 1996 -- like growth from 1982 to 1989 -- was just an ordinary business cycle recovery, with no sign of an upturn in the economy's sluggish long-term trend.

Scores increased only marginally for eighth graders and not at all for fourth graders, continuing a sluggish six-year trend of slowing achievement growth since passage of the law, which requires schools to bring 100percentt of students to reading and math proficiency by 2014.