Sentence examples for sustained lull from inspiring English sources
Buoyed by a sustained lull in fighting and flush with cash, Mr. Kadyrov's government has rebuilt most of its capital and outlying areas.
I was concerned that the teachers might use any sustained lull as an excuse to launch an exploration of the subjunctive.
This battlefield action, rather than Sadr's ceasefires, had deepened and sustained the lull in Iraq's violence this summer, Petraeus argued.
It coincided with an effort by officials from the European Union, Russia and the United Nations to try to sustain the lull in the 8-month-old Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
A period of sustained success can lull the board into the belief that success is forever and that the company can do very nicely on automatic pilot.
"But what we need to know is that this lull is going to be sustained," Lowcock said.
Michael Moran, economist at Daiwa Securities America, believes that the mild slowdown in consumer spending so far this year is a temporary lull, not a prelude to a sustained retrenching by most consumers.
Lulled by expectations that industrialisation in China and other developing countries would ensure sustained demand, leading firms in the steel, cement and mining industries have entered the recession with far more debt than is normally viewed as prudent (see table).Much of this reflects the ambitious acquisitions of 2006 and 2007.
The objection was sustained.
Diasporas have sustained us.
