Sentences with phrase «sluggish start»

Compared to the previous mainline games, that's a pretty sluggish start.

Compared to the previous mainline games, that's a pretty sluggish start.

Spurs have also suffered from sluggish starts in recent weeks but they were at it from the off here as Serge Aurier and Son both saw early shots flash wide.

2015.06.03 Canada's economy to accelerate after sluggish start to 2015: RBC Economics The broad - based weakness that knee - capped Canada...

SouthernCalifornia made up for sluggish start with three - touchdown last - quarter scoringromp led by Halfback Jon Arnett, as California's Bears succumbed 33 - 6 atBerkeley, Calif..

US GDP rebounds from sluggish start to year US economic growth accelerated in the second quarter, rising 2.6 %, up from the first quarter's 1.2 % pace.

It took the men three - plus rounds to hook TV viewers on the Olympic golf experience, so it was no surprise that Wednesday's first round of the women's event got off to a similarly sluggish start.

It's imperative that teams like Blackburn make their home stadium a fortress and Blackburn are slowly starting to achieve that, although, slow sluggish starts at home won't help their cause.

Indeed, after Sam makes the discovery that sets the movie into motion (after an admittedly sluggish start), don't be surprised to find yourself moving closer and closer to the edge of your seat as you wait for the next «big» moment.

The movie gets off to a somewhat sluggish start, at a party scene that's overstuffed with arch dialogue and almost as many pop - culture allusions as a Seth MacFarlane show, but the underlying humanism in Baumbach's worldview ultimately wins out, and we actually come to care about this quippy group of chums and their endlessly referential, often very amusing conversations.

The movie industry hopes the film will ignite what has been a generally sluggish start to the summer movie season.

If weighed down with a load of passengers, cargo and available all - wheel drive (which adds about 120 pounds), expect a relatively sluggish start from stop lights.

After a rather sluggish start, especially when compared to the pre-pub holds for her debut, lists have grown and libraries have placed multiple re-oreders.

Introducing a perhaps more interesting story than what was given us in the Commonwealth, Far Harbor is a promising addition to the universe that I think more than compensates for the slightly sluggish start to the season of Fallout 4 downloadable content, and one that hopefully paves the way for what is still to come.

The Blues made a pretty sluggish start, as they were almost caught out from Bournemouth breaks on a couple of occasions.

Our pesky alarms waking us up during REM or deep sleep is often the biggest cause for our sluggish starts to the day.

Much like last year, a sluggish start spurred more stimulus as the government orchestrated a debt swap for provinces and the central bank accelerated monetary easing.

Compare that to America's sluggish start to 2017 with growth at 0.7 percent, the slowest quarterly rate in three years.

Last year's sluggish start can be partially credited to concern over currencies as well as the emerging markets outlook in a rising rate environment.

The Toronto Real Estate Board had predicted a sluggish start to 2018, particularly when compared to peak levels during the opening months of last year, when frenzied activity fuelled double - digit price increases and bidding wars were commonplace.

The European Commission shrugged off the euro area's sluggish start to the year and said economic growth will almost match 2017's best - in - a-decade...

Though the labor market appeared to remain on track, prior indications of a sluggish start to the year by the US economy were confirmed by initial estimates for first - quarter economic growth.

After a sluggish start following its launch in 1986, Nespresso suddenly took off in the late 1990s, fuelled by an advertisement blitz featuring Hollywood superstar George Clooney.

We do however need to start clicking very soon, it's been a sluggish start.

Their sluggish start here put them behind the eight - ball and they just couldn't recover..

Their roster looks really strong this Season and if they can figure out a way to avoid the sluggish start in 2014, they might be a dark horse by the time 2015 (and more importantly the Playoffs) come around.

Those two drives marked the beginning of the turnaround for Missouri, as the Tigers overcame a sluggish start to defeat Georgia 68 - 56.

Through the first half of this season ---- amidst a myriad of offseason pseudo-controversies ranging from endorsing a phony concussion - prevention drink to claiming God ordered him to «lead» his pop star girlfriend, Ciara ---- Wilson and the Seahawks got off to a sluggish start.

Hull meanwhile, will be hoping to build on a sluggish start and bounce back from the disappointment at not being able to claim all three points against West Ham on Monday.

Still, at week's end the Penguins were 11 -3-2, a far cry from a year ago, when they had to overcome a sluggish start to win their second consecutive Stanley Cup.

The Portuguese manager overcame a sluggish start to guide the Club of the Principality back into the top three and also guided them to the quarter - final of the Champions League, where they were only defeated 1 - 0 by Juventus on aggregate.

Chelsea's strikers have struggled for form so far this term, with both Loic Remy and Radamel Falcao finding regular game time difficult to come by, while main front man Diego Costa confessed that he endured a sluggish start to the season because he was overweight after returning from the summer break (via Daily Mail).

Obviously I hope that I am proved wrong and Wenger has got it bang on, but I am a bit worried that our sluggish start to the season will continue.

At the end of last season, and in this pre-season, Arsenal were in such scintillating form that we were being talked about as genuine Premier League contenders, and despite our sluggish start to the new campaign we are definitely in with a shout, and could even go above leaders Man United next weekend.

With Arsenal having made a sluggish start to the Premier League season and already being five points off the pace set by the league leaders Man City, we simply can not afford to drop any more points in this weekend's away game with Hull City.

The ball bounced back off the keeper's back and into the net though and even though the goal was lucky we had been asking for trouble after an awful and sluggish start.

After making a bit of a sluggish start Juan Pablo Montoya dropped behind his Williams teammate Ralf Schumacher at the start of the 2002 United States Grand Prix at Indianapolis.

The 19 - year - old has produced a goal or an assist every 52 minutes in his opening three games, compared to the 175 minutes that it has taken Sanchez to do the same in his seven games after experiencing a sluggish start.

Not stung by the seller of Jackson Martinez, or even the player himself, but by his inability to adapt to Cholo's system and his slow, sluggish start to life in Spain.

The Argentine - born ex-Italian international has been under pressure to produce results in recent weeks following a sluggish start to the Top 14 season, and with additional reports of unrest in the camp, owner Mourad Boudjellal has now dispensed with his head...

A sluggish start to this campaign should not take from Rooney's ability and he will surely bounce back at some point soon.

SuperSport coach Eric Tinkler said; «We recovered well from a sluggish start, but could not find a way through a good Mazembe defence.»

After admitting that sluggish starts usually eliminate them from the title chase earlier than should be the norm, the Welsh international insisted that getting off to a good start in the coming season will put them up as serious contenders to the Premier League title.

Austin hit the post as our sluggish start continued, but slowly we worked our way into the contest.

After a sluggish start that saw Villa concede a succession of last minute goals, Di Matteo was fired.