1. The world economy was sluggish in 1992 and its future course uncertain.

After all, a currency can appreciate while an economy is sluggish, or depreciate despite robust growth.

Sluggish, treacherous What difference?

The world s largest economy, the United States, expanded by 3.2 , and growth also recovered in previously sluggish Japan and Europe.

She's a little sluggish today.

Even if that is true, proponents might argue, investment in green jobs is nonetheless a good way to stimulate a sluggish economy.

Why are you being so sluggish?

Why are you so sluggish today?

8. The apparent slow down in capital inflows at mid year, coupled with a continued sluggish world economy, raised some concern towards year end.

After all, more than 20 years of unusually sluggish trend growth in Japanese output has sharply reduced its incremental impact on the broader global economy.

And this can lead to a sluggish Ul.

Yet the absence of any such growth windfall in a still sluggish US economy has unmasked QE as little more than a yield seeking liquidity foil.

On the demand side, the ongoing economic slowdown in China is starting to affect companies orders and revenues, adding to the challenges stemming from the persistently sluggish US economy.

Having suffered a deeper economic collapse in 2009 than the United States did, Europe s economy is poised for a much more sluggish recovery if one can call it that.

Chinese policymakers should bear in mind that the value of the yuan is only one among many factors that affects the competitiveness of China s economy. After all, a currency can appreciate while an economy is sluggish, or depreciate despite robust growth.

Of course, it is not easy to legislate financial reform in a stagnant global economy, for fear of impeding credit and turning a sluggish recovery into a full blown recession.

Baby, wake up. She's a bit sluggish since her dinner last week.

58. In his 1993 state of the Territory address, the Governor reiterated the importance of the implementation of the Territory apos s capital improvement programme to offset the impact of the sluggish economy.

This year, however, output is expected to rise by a relatively sluggish 5.9 .

You don't say so! said Hall, who was a man of sluggish apprehension.

They noted that the global economy had witnessed sluggish growth, high rates of unemployment in some of the industrialized countries and depressed commodity prices in the international market, with the notable exceptions of coffee and cocoa.

They are constantly challenging sluggish, over centralized responses to their asymmetrical, adaptable organizations and methods.

Most Americans are, after all, preoccupied with the US economy s sluggish growth and persistent high unemployment.

Japan recorded its highest annual growth rate since 1996, whereas the European Union recovery remained sluggish.

Unemployment and sluggish growth are unexpectedly severe burdens on their productive capacity, both domestically and externally.

Close to the pyramid everything is slowed down. Again, like the sluggish part of a river.

Moreover, its economic performance has been relatively sluggish, with a growth rate of just 2.3 last year.

that you won't be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherited the promises.

The G 7 recovery has been unusually sluggish, notwithstanding large and unprecedented policy stimulus (particularly in the US).

Advanced economies will face sluggish (call it 2 ) growth and persistently high, increasingly structural (and therefore protracted) unemployment.

Sluggish economic activity has increased the rate of urban unemployment to an estimated 34 of the labor force.

The sluggish growth stemmed from the slump in unit values, since export volumes rose by 6 per cent.

Despite unprecedented fiscal and monetary stimulus, economic growth remains sluggish, and unemployment is stuck at a worrisomely high level.

Consumers paying off that debt is one of the main reasons why our economic recovery is so sluggish today.

43. In his state of the Territory address in January 1993, the Governor informed the Legislature that the lingering effects of the United States and the world economies continue to have a negative impact on the Territory apos s economy, which he described as sluggish.

But, while risk aversion and volatility were falling and asset prices were rising, economic growth remained sluggish throughout the world.

The combination of loose fiscal policy and tight monetary policy will mean high interest rates, sluggish investment, and slow growth.

Sluggish growth was also a combined result of inappropriate economic policies and deeply rooted structural problems inherited from the past.

In 2000 2010, after decades of sluggish growth, six of the world s ten fastest growing economies were in sub Saharan Africa.

Until both are addressed properly, the West will remain burdened by sluggish growth, persistently high unemployment, and excessive income and wealth inequality.

Given the sluggish recovery, Bernanke could have gone even further and argued that the Fed is the one who has it right.

In 2002, the transport sector saw a revival of river transport and a marked increase in the volume of road freight, while air freight, which had begun to decline several years earlier, continued its downward trend, owing to its prohibitive cost, weak purchasing power and a sluggish domestic economy.

Faced with sluggish external demand, weak domestic consumption, rising labor costs, and low productivity, China depends excessively on investment to drive economic growth.

CAMBRIDGE As one year of sluggish growth spills into the next, there is growing debate about what to expect over the coming decades.

Important African manufacturing countries such as Côte d apos Ivoire, Nigeria and Zambia have not performed well, and growth in Kenya is sluggish.