This was exacerbated by the possibility that Southeast Asia in general would enjoy rapid economic growth in the 1990s, so that demand for oil there would rise twice as fast as demand in the relatively more sluggish, more mature economies of North America and Europe.

( 1 ) As far down as 400 miles below the surface the material should be hot enough to be plastic and adjust itself to twisting forces by sluggish flow rather than by breaking, as rigid surface rocks do.

Although Croatian economy had showed signs of recovery in the last quarter of 2010 and officially exited recession in the first quarter of 2011, economic indicators suggest that the recovery may be sluggish with the economy expected to grow by 1. 5-1. 8 % in 2011.

The Casiquiare is not a sluggish canal on a flat tableland, but a great, rapid river which, if its upper waters had not found contact with the Orinoco, perhaps by cutting back, would belong entirely to the Negro branch of the Amazon.

Frederick's style of rulership was marked by hesitation and a sluggish pace of decision making.

One will sometimes find the claim that Socrates described himself as the " gadfly " of Athens which, like a sluggish horse, needed to be aroused by his " stinging ".

The general aspect of the district is that of a flat even country, dotted with clusters of bamboo and betelnut trees, and intersected by a perfect network of dark-coloured and sluggish streams.

Export sales collapsed by 75 % in 1952 followed by sluggish domestic sales while the nation waited for the removal of a " temporarily " increased purchase tax, finally eased in April 1953 with disastrous long-term consequences for Jowett.

* Nick Jenkins meets Uncle Giles for tea at the Ufford Hotel, " riding at anchor on the sluggish Bayswater tide ", in The Acceptance World ( 1955 ), Volume three of A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell.

While he was considered by many to be intellectually sluggish and quite credulous he was also known for his acts of kindness.

Acceleration from rest was still sluggish ( by the standards of today ), but it was much improved from earlier cars.

Print media came into being as a solution to the problem of the sluggish and ponderous task of transcribing written materials by hand.

The Upper Rhine was straightened between 1817 and 1876 by Johann Gottfried Tulla and changed from a relatively sluggish meandering river with major and many smaller branches into a fast flowing stream flanked with dams.

The Kaypro name briefly re-emerged as an online vendor of Wintel PCs in 1999, but was discontinued in 2001 by its parent company Premio Computers Inc. because of sluggish sales.

The Soviet space program had experienced great success in its early years, but by the mid-1960s the pace of success had grown sluggish.

Affected by the global economic crisis, the market will remain quite sluggish by 2010.

Japan's sluggish economy, staff cuts by foreign companies, and the flow of new office space have put downward pressure on rents.

The VTR also has an adequate engine, whereas the VTS is the premium sports model, with a engine capable of accelerating from 0 to in 8. 0 seconds, seen as sluggish by modern hot hatch standards where the fastest hot hatch achieves 5. 3 seconds ( Clio V6 ), although this is obviously designed to be more insurance-friendly.

Success in Aachen was measured by the number of houses captured, as the advance proved to be sluggish ; in order to cope with the thick walls of the older buildings in the city, the 26th Infantry Regiment used the howitzer at point blank range to destroy German fortifications.

Sluggishly progressing schizophrenia or sluggish schizophrenia (, vyalotekushchaya shizofreniya ) was a category of schizophrenia diagnosed by psychiatrists in the Soviet Union to justify involuntary treatment of political dissidents.

The diagnosis of sluggish schizophrenia ( a concept developed by the Moscow School of Psychiatry and its chief, Andrei Snezhnevsky ) furnished a framework for explaining this behavior.

At one point the basic Hillman Imp was the cheapest new car on the British market, which temporarily pushed up rather sluggish sales figures.

Since the late 1990s, Wong's films have fared much worse in the box office due to the sluggish recession which has been enveloping HK cinema in the new millennium.

As an answer to the major records labels suffering from the sluggish sales and lack of interest to new music, independent companies are pulling together in effort to create an event worthy and surpassing the major ones.

The redfin and grass pickerels occur primarily in sluggish, vegetated waters of pools, lakes, and swamps, and are carnivorous, feeding on smaller fish.

Containing the singles " Stand " which featured the Los Angeles First A. M. E. Church Choir on backing vocals, " Until You Suffer Some ( Fire And Ice )" and " Body Talk ", the album received generally positive reviews and did go Gold, but following the arrival of grunge sales were sluggish compared with the first three albums, selling only 2 million copies worldwide.

Although sales were sluggish at first, the album was eventually a hit, due in large part to " Lady ," a top-ten hit on the Billboard Hot 100 charts, peaking at # 10.

The band landed an opening slot on the Depeche Mode Exotic Tour in Summer 1994 and opened North American tour dates in Fall 1994 for Killing Joke, but Stabbing Westward album sales were still sluggish.

Although smoother than the GM Hydramatic, acceleration was sluggish and owners were often tempted to put it into Low Gear for faster starts which put extra wear on the transmission.

During the mid-and late-1970s, and despite an otherwise sluggish economy, Hardee's saw rapid chain growth and high profits on the strength of its two key sandwiches: the " Big Twin " ( a two-patty burger using a distinctive cheese and sauce combination ) and the " Big Deluxe " ( a single, wide quarter-pound burger with a unique, tangy mayonnaise ).

These birds are somewhat sluggish in the mornings and may be found huddled next to each other on wires sometimes with their bills tucked in their backs well after sunrise.

The announcement came on the same day MGM Mirage reported a 67 percent plunge in third-quarter earnings, largely because of sluggish revenue from its properties on the Las Vegas Strip.

An audience member at a lecture by Georgi Morozov on forensic psychiatry in the Serbsky Institute asked, “ Tell us, Georgi Vasilevich, what is actually the diagnosis of sluggish schizophrenia ?” Since the question was asked ironically Morozov replied ironically: “ You know, dear colleagues, this is a very peculiar disease.

Concrete placement started on June 16, 1960 and started out at a sluggish but growing pace.

During the day, zebra sharks are sluggish and usually found resting on the sea bottom, sometimes using their pectoral fins to prop up the front part of their bodies and facing into the current with their mouths open to facilitate respiration.

VIII Corps, on the right flank made considerable progress but XXX Corps was sluggish.

Signs of a sick bird can be ( but not limited to ) runny eyes, sluggish behavior, unusually colored droppings ( esp indicating blood in the digestive tract ), sleeping more than normal, droopy wings, tail bobbing when sleeping ( indicating difficulty in breathing ), sleeping on the bottom of the cage ( birds naturally want to be high on a perch ), unusual behavior, feather plucking, biting themselves, and a drop in appetite are a few symptoms of illness.

Heating a copper penny with an alcohol lamp and placing it on the wet mount slide will activate sluggish trophozoites and more rapidly make the diagnosis.

Either solitary, in pairs or small groups depending on the species, filefish are not terribly good swimmers ; their small fins confine the fish to a sluggish gait.

In an online poker room, a player with the same win rate playing a relatively easy pace of four tables at once at a relatively sluggish 60 hands per hour each earns about $ 24 / hour on average.

When he assumed power in 1933, there were still many unemployed workers in Germany, some of whom were given work on public building schemes that Hitler thought would stimulate a sluggish German economy and at the same time provided him with popular propaganda " Hitler Creates Jobs " ( Gr Hitler schafft Arbeit ).

Edmund Phelps focused more in detail on the labor market structures and frictions that would cause aggregate demand changes to feed into inflation, and for sluggish expectations, into the determination of the unemployment rate.