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Laggard


Definition:

  • (a.) Slow; sluggish; backward.
  • (n.) One who lags; a loiterer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "Sticking your head in the sand might make you feel safer, but it's not going to protect you from the coming storm," Obama warned climate laggards then.
  • (2) Dentists can be divided into five adoption categories based upon their time of adoption of pit and fissure sealants: innovators, early adopters, early majority, late majority, and laggards.
  • (3) The unique value of Time Warner’s industry-leading businesses including its portfolio of networks and its film studio and television production business is only going to increase.” Claire Enders, founder of media research firm Enders Analysis, said: “Time Warner been a real laggard in stock market terms for a long time with a lot of great assets that can be plucked like a chicken.
  • (4) "In some ways, the more interesting announcement was the continuation of the iPhone 3GS, which is now available for free on contract with many carriers, and which now represents Apple's low-cost strategy for emerging markets and smartphone laggards.
  • (5) The percentage of total aberrations in root tips exposed to nimrod reached 54.39% at 250 ppm for 4 h, and 64.69% in root tips exposed to rubigan-4 at 250 ppm for 6 h. The types of numerical chromosomal aberrations produced by both fungicides included: binucleate cells, c-metaphases, sticky chromosomes, polyploid cells, and laggards.
  • (6) It omitted a target date for peaking emissions, which meant there was no clear way of getting to the 2C goal, and it did not propose any penalties for climate laggards.
  • (7) Some of these differences, between the leaders and the laggards, are likely to surface in the talks this week among the IMF's 188 member countries, as central banks fret about their "exit strategy" from the emergency policies they have used to try to stimulate demand since the Great Recession.
  • (8) DfID welcomed the NAO report and said it was prepared to take tough action on laggards.
  • (9) The EU today contains some of the world's best places for free expression, namely Finland, Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden, but also laggards, such as Italy, Hungary, Greece and Romania, who sit behind new and emerging global democracies.
  • (10) Perry said she was delighted that No 10 had decided to intervene on the issue and accused ISPs of being laggards in the debate.
  • (11) Leader to laggard summarises the history of the UK’s rail network.
  • (12) Microsporocytes from a population of F2 plants derived from these stocks displayed the following aberrations: varying frequencies of metaphase and anaphase laggards, 'stickiness' at anaphase I resulting in chromosome bridges from pole to pole, acentric fragments and a spontaneous translocation of the NOR on chromosome 6.
  • (13) Mouse L-cells were treated with bis-benzimidazole derivative (Hoechst 33258), caffeine and bleomycin in order to study genesis of laggards and micronuclei and formation of kinetochores as revealed by antikinetochore antibody staining.
  • (14) Andrew Goodwin, senior economic adviser to the Ernst & Young ITEM Club Manufacturing has gone from being the star performer of the recovery to being the laggard.
  • (15) "Being a laggard has never been very successful in terms of capturing the greater share of the value added for the economy … if you create a sustainable market, you will achieve cost savings and drive economic benefits in terms of tax income and job creation."
  • (16) This entails creating markets and incentives that reward those prepared to back the green economy and exclude the (largely US-based) industry laggards that spend so much of their time and money lobbying against climate action instead of innovating sustainable business products and services.
  • (17) "Let's lead the change, not be laggards at a game in which we can succeed."
  • (18) "Internet service providers with the exception of TalkTalk have been laggardly in this area.
  • (19) The relevant questions, then, are: how many laggards are out there, how badly do they trail the field and how much extra capital do they need to survive, say, a sovereign debt crisis?
  • (20) ... Dickens did much with Carlyle’s despairing insight into cash payment as the sole nexus between human beings The bloody dramas of political and economic laggards can seem remote from liberal-democratic Britain.

Loafer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who loafs; a lazy lounger.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Loafers were worn sockless, with a few inches of tanned ankle.
  • (2) The local British brands are very attractive because of the high quality.” While they haven’t bought any Burberry goods yet, she reckons the Loake loafers her partner bought earlier are 30% cheaper than at home.
  • (3) In the landscape in which I work, in south India, a large tuskless male known as CMK1 or “Naadodi Ganesan”, “the village loafer Ganesan”, spends all his time around people and displays behaviour that is rather different from his fellow elephants.
  • (4) In the Pentagon worldview, however, there is simply no drug use, nor any factory-style drudgery, and no one in the US Air Force is, was or ever shall be light enough in the loafers to invoke The Wizard Of Oz poetically.
  • (5) She's trimly turned out in a tweed jacket and silver loafers.
  • (6) Series nine of The Apprentice ( Tue & Wed, 9pm, BBC1 ) and the winds of change are howling around Lord Sugar's tasselled loafers.
  • (7) Amiable, wise and pink-cheeked, with the same taste for the finer things we have witnessed in certain popes – let us remember Benedict’s red leather loafers – it’s all but impossible, once you’ve read his new novel, not to imagine how fabulous he would look in a white zucchetto , with a cape to match, and a socking great ring on his finger for journalists to kiss as they try desperately not to reveal the sin of envy in his presence (before he was a million-selling novelist, Harris was a hack just like them – and me).
  • (8) Spray-painted monk-strap shoes, desert boots and tasselled loafers paraded on a catwalk raised to audience eye-level in order to give a an ant's-eye view of the main event.
  • (9) Hirst's Prada loafers are on the floor in front of us, but his signature tinted glasses are nowhere to be seen.
  • (10) He will trade his famous red shoes for some brown loafers given to him in Mexico last year, but will continue to wear a cassock in the traditional papal colour of white.
  • (11) If you’re going out raving you might go for the Gucci loafers but for the standard day to day, it’s all about Reebok Classics or Nikes.
  • (12) 'Is it proper to wear tasselled loafers with a business suit or not?'"
  • (13) This means her look is all trainers, flats and comfy loafers, paired with loose jeans and baggy jumpers.
  • (14) He was not averse to this, preferring to cloak his iron self-discipline and thirst for knowledge under a crisp linen shirt, a light tan, and pair of Gucci loafers.
  • (15) You are the Ref No345: Zlatan Ibrahimovic Read more In what is perhaps a sign that Roman Ambramovich has been through every other manager in the world that might be willing to work with him, he is reportedly flicking through his old contact book to give some former friends a shout, with Carlo Ancelotti and Guus Hiddink the men who could fill José’s loafers.
  • (16) They're forcing us to travel with tiny tubes of toothpaste and moving us to wear loafers when usually we'd prefer lace-ups.
  • (17) What unites us is an unconditional love for France,” Marion Maréchal-Le Pen told an eclectic audience ranging from retired business leaders in smart loafers to heavy-metal fans, poor farmers, trendy teenage girls and people carrying lapdogs with bows in their hair.
  • (18) The Russian MP has written to the Customs Union, a grouping that includes Russia , Belarus and Kazakhstan, suggesting it introduces regulations limiting heels to 5cm in height, as well as ruling out trainers and men's loafers.
  • (19) At this point the penny loafer drops: they're called the 1% because they're lonely.
  • (20) Gucci being the key show from autumn, and the loafer with furry insides the key shoe, it was always going to be the show-off shoe for editors attending these spring shows.