(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.
Lustreless
Definition:
(a.) Destitute of luster; dim; dull.
Example Sentences:
(1) He remembers having to impress his credentials on a casting team who’d definitely never seen Son of Rambow or Wild Bill , and had probably skipped the lustreless Narnia 3 as well.
(2) What it may do, should a consensus be reached, is give momentum and a patina of success to an otherwise lustreless conference.
(3) Results showed that apart from caries (87.5%), most prevalent clinical signs of malnutrition were dermatosis (13.4%), follicular hyperkeratosis type I (13.2%), nasolabial dyssebacea (7.9%), lustreless hair (7.7%), angular stomatitis (4.4%) and cheilosis (2.7%).
(4) Experiments carried out on 64 knees of 32 Lein sheep with superficial and deep chondral defects of the patella and femoral condyles covered by autogenic fascia lata grafts indicate that under active motion and load the grafted tissue after 6 weeks is thinner, fragile and lustreless.
(5) The clinical picture showed brittle, lustreless, fallow hair.
(6) Results revealed that L-Feb-75 strain represented thin membraneous growth from about 20th week and it crept up the culture tube wall at about 30th week of incubation at 37 degrees C. L-Jun-75 strain, on the other hand, exhibited numerous, white and rough colonies of submiliary size on various places of the lustreless, thin membraneous structure at the inoculation site.