Sentence examples for was so sluggish from inspiring English sources
adverb
To the (explicitly stated) extent that.
- It was so hot outside that all the plants died.
The rate was so sluggish that New York members of Congress pushed for a one-year extension.
When Andrew M. Odlyzko investigated why the Internet connection from his home in Minneapolis to his office just over two miles away was so sluggish, he found the answer: the data was taking a round trip to Denver.
In what sounded like a resignation speech, though he immediately insisted it was nothing of the kind, the coach said at his postgame news conference that he had asked his players why their performance was so sluggish.
Left unsaid was this: The progress in Manaus was so sluggish that at one point late last year, Jérôme Valcke, the secretary general of soccer's governing body, FIFA, said it was possible that games would not be played in the city if the stadium's deadlines were not met.
Now the Caribbean side are coming for England, who were so sluggish against Paraguay.
Farmers have avoided the current H2A program because it is so sluggish.
But few countries can grow as robustly as they would like when the West is so sluggish.
America's growth is thus slower than it appears to be, so sluggish payrolls should surprise nobody.
The main reasons why productivity growth has been so sluggish are a lack of competition in sheltered product markets together with a poorly performing public sector.
"Health care is a major reason why employment growth has been so sluggish," said Sung Won Sohn, the chief economist at Wells Fargo.
Growth is so sluggish, he said, that the bank will have to scale back its projections for the rest of this year and for 2004.
