Sentence examples for tendency to drag from inspiring English sources

True, it is an opera with a tendency to drag.

"Sometimes I have a tendency to drag," he admitted.

Among other things, there's no event that will force them to act by a certain date so the tendency to drag their feet will be overwhelming.

The political tendency to drag things out often only adds to the costs and creates more suffering than getting the pain out of the way quickly.

The band's tendency to drag by in a narcotic dub stupor live is tempered tonight by this fresh political fury, and a modernising guest-fest.

In the mixed systems, Li+ and alkali metal cations showed tendency to drag more water molecules than in the individual ions, which indicated that ionic conductivity decreases when cations are coexisting in the membrane.

Too many people are overly nostalgic, she said, and "have a tendency just to drag along everything they've ever owned".

There are legitimate reasons to think that meaningful Sino-Japanese relations are all but impossible: scars from atrocities committed by the Japanese Army during World War II are still fresh, and Beijing's tendency to periodically drag out historical grievances for domestic political consumption has not been helpful.

The key is for us to show that the CIC can do things differently within the first year because there is a public sector tendency for things to drag on a bit".

More, it's a pacing issue, a tendency to wallow and to drag out scenes.

The tendency of companies to allow unpromising projects to drag on far too long is underscored in research by Isabelle Royer, a professor at the Université Paris Dauphine.