Sentence examples for tepid performance from inspiring English sources

But it nevertheless was a tepid performance compared with expectations.

You had to be tactically more aggressive .Despite tepid performance in 2010 investors have remained enthusiastic about macro funds.

Another concept car makes it to production, but is let down by Alfa 159 saloon dashboard and tepid performance.

Such a tepid performance for the major broadcasters as a whole was expected before the upfront talks began.

The economy's tepid performance has been made worse by falling prices, which erode profits and make debts more burdensome.

Despite its legal woes and tepid performance across its funds, Aletheia still managed about $1.4 billion as of Sept. 30, according to securities filings.

The debate marked Bush's strongest showing to date, after tepid performances last year that dogged his flailing presidential campaign.

Reports of dispiritedness from within the orchestra go a long way toward explaining any number of tepid performances this reviewer has heard over the last dozen years.

But the Dutchman has begun in much the same manner as his predecessor, with tepid performances against lesser opposition and a loss and a draw to kick off the campaign.

But a victory over our deadly enemy Argentina along the way was enough to convince many of us that — despite a couple of the results, two or three tepid performances, and our failure to win the trophy — the whole thing had been a stupendous triumph.

[C6.] Trading Is Tepid After Chinese Bank Goes Public Shares of the China Construction Bank put in only a lukewarm performance in their first day of trade.