(1) A group of economists told the Wall Street Journal that is exactly what is happening : They blame our lackluster recovery this year on a pullback in spending and investment by US companies, which are afraid that the fallout from a fiscal cliff could compromise their ability to find funding or function normally.
(2) But leaders in both parties warned that a prolonged shutdown, and an associated decline in economic activity, could damage the lackluster economic recovery.
(3) Paraguay defeated Jamaica 1-0 Tuesday in a lackluster Group B match at the Copa América , giving the South Americans four points from their first two matches.
(4) Thank goodness for Kyrie Irving because without him this would have been one of the more lackluster All-Star Weekends in recent memory.
(5) The NSL rollback may have been the most sweeping recommendation made by the otherwise lackluster “review group”.
(6) An expert on the job markets, Yellen has been a staunch ally of Bernanke as he has tried to use low interest rates and QE to reanimate the US’s still-lackluster job market.
(7) Despite their lackluster results this year, GOP Super Pacs have far out-raised their Democratic counterparts, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics.
(8) Even as he faces a major new crisis and weeks of bad news to overcome – a lackluster GOP convention; deeply negative views of his handling of the attack in Libya; dissension in the campaign ranks – Romney is maintaining a remarkably light campaign schedule, York writes : He had one public appearance on his schedule Monday, Sept. 17, a speech to the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce in Los Angeles.
(9) Many of the production numbers were lackluster (an ecstatic duet between Jesse Mueller and Carole King excepted), though the dancing was of a very high order.
(10) However, lackluster consumer spending and inflation data on Monday curbed investor bets on when the next rate rise will be.
(11) Saturday Night Live: a lackluster episode as show comes to terms with Trump Read more When someone fits the bill, the show will bring that person back often, and Emma Stone seems poised to becoming a regular.
(12) Adding to his problems, Pryor's approval ratings are lackluster.
(13) While the media hysteria over Obama's lackluster performance is overstated, this strategy was a big political mistake.
(14) The answer is not for Obama to be aggressive as a means of over-compensating for his lackluster performance in Denver (a la Al Gore in 2000) but rather keep things as simple as possible.
(15) The president's overall job performance is similarly lackluster , with 43% approving, and 52 % disapproving.
(16) The lackluster start to the week comes as America's fragile economic recovery faces another crucial test as major US firms report their first-quarter earnings.
(17) 12.29am BST Half time thoughts Well that was perhaps predictably lackluster from the USA, with only the slightly anxious contribution of Johannsson standing out, as he showed neat touches to make a couple of half chances only for nerves to apparently get the better of him.
(18) Normally by the 82nd game of the regular season, the post-season seedings are set and the starters are resting in preparation for the playoffs, with fan support lackluster if they even show up at all.
(19) The Federal Reserve should keep in mind the lackluster growth we’ve seen throughout 2015 and continue to let the economy recover,” said Elise Gould , senior economist at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
(20) A number of donors to Jeb Bush’s campaign were reportedly jittery about sticking by him even before Wednesday’s lackluster performance in the Republican debate , but in the fierce competition among GOP presidential candidates to win seven- or eight-figure checks from multibillionaire businessman Sheldon Adelson, Marco Rubio has already emerged as the frontrunner, the Guardian can reveal.
Lacklustre
Definition:
(n.) A want of luster.
(a.) Wanting luster or brightness.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a four-week campaign, noticeable for its lacklustre feel in the wake of the draining bailout saga, almost every poll depicted a neck-and-neck race between the two main parties.
(2) He explained that in the last two weeks Local World began rolling out eight "content modules", which when completed make it much easier for local people to engage with the websites, admitting that it is a pretty lacklustre experience at present.
(3) But the Sunday Mirror's Kevin O'Sullivan thought the whole episode was a "lacklustre affair", from the plot to the dinosaur and robots who made an appearance.
(4) A pick-up in sales of swimwear, sandals and other holiday items was barely enough to offset the continuing decline in food sales and that left like-for-like sales up just 0.2% on February 2014, matching January’s lacklustre growth .
(5) He was eventually thrown out by a lacklustre landlord who finally listened to my trembling 3am calls for action.
(6) 7.2% is a huge rise compared with the lacklustre rise in wages.
(7) And forward guidance for the current quarter, of sequentially flatrevenues, was given a lacklustre reception.
(8) Computing had become lacklustre and even boring The Raspberry Pi started life as an idea to bring computing in schools back to the era of the BBC Micro in the early 1980s, which inspired children to learn how a computer worked and allowed them to discover what was possible through learning to code.
(9) Anaemic government spending, not profligacy, has been a major factor behind the economy's lacklustre recovery.
(10) He defended the lacklustre performance of Zlatan Ibrahimovic up front.
(11) Britain's lacklustre economic recovery is taking its toll on the labour market, with unemployment increasing by 38,000 over the three months to June - the largest jump since spring 2009, when the UK was in recession.
(12) Berlin, running the eurozone show increasingly and certain to shape the policy responses of the next few years in what is chancellor Angela Merkel's third and probably final term, is ridden with angst about France, and the lack of reforms being undertaken by the lacklustre François Hollande , France's least popular president ever.
(13) Particular criticism is being directed at the EU’s lacklustre maritime patrols in the Mediterranean.
(14) Berlusconi's remarks, combined with allegations at the weekend of a colossal slush fund at a bank traditionally close to the left, looked set to electrify a hitherto lacklustre campaign.
(15) His performance in the 2003 election was lacklustre, and he actually lost by a slim margin to his Peronist rival, the ageing Carlos Menem, but finally took the presidency by default when Menem bowed out of a second round of voting.
(16) BIG FAT AUDIENCE (FOR CHANNEL 4) Big Fat Quiz of the Year 2010, Channel 4, 9.30pm – after a lacklustre festive period in which Channel 4 avoided going head to head with the other channel's big guns, Channel 4 saved its ratings banker for the final bank holiday of the season.
(17) Her decision to hire Bradlee, then the Washington bureau chief of Newsweek, as editor in 1966 created the team which transformed the previously lacklustre Post's reputation.
(18) As the Scottish National party and devolution campaigners derided the proposals as "lacklustre" and half-hearted, Miliband insisted they would bring "people and power closer", signalling to hostile Labour backbenchers that the plans would be supported at Westminster.
(19) Foreign retailers have struggled to conquer Japan due to the toxic combination of intense competition and years of lacklustre economic growth.
(20) Tottenham steamroller lacklustre Stoke with Son Heung-min double Read more Two each at half-time and the match was in the balance.