(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.
Tardy
Definition:
(superl.) Moving with a slow pace or motion; slow; not swift.
(superl.) Not being inseason; late; dilatory; -- opposed to prompt; as, to be tardy in one's payments.
(superl.) Unwary; unready.
(superl.) Criminal; guilty.
(v. t.) To make tardy.
Example Sentences:
(1) But even if he had a real-life Tardis it is unlikely that he would travel beyond the here and now, such is his ubiquity across screen and stage.
(2) This will be the ninth episode, in which Jenna Coleman's Clara must lug the Doctor and his Tardis around in her handbag after they get shrunken down to miniature size.
(3) Laughing out loud, laugh out loud (used chiefly in electronic communication to draw attention to a joke of amusing statement, or to express amusement.” Despite criticism at the time, the OED had in fact been tardy in deciding to include it.
(4) I've known for a very long time how to work the Tardis.
(5) I guess you have to do what you can when you don't have a Tardis.
(6) Although Twitter has been criticised for its tardy response to the threats directed at Creasy and Criado-Perez, Whittingdale said he did not know enough about the case to be able to comment on it.
(7) He created his own title sequence for the new series of Doctor Who , complete with Peter Capaldi, a spinning Tardis, intergalactic vistas, and an eye-catching swoop through the gears of a clock.
(8) Anterior subcutaneous transposition is a good method for treating tardy ulnar palsy.
(9) The results show that: elders have substantial levels of forgetting; nonadherence decreases with higher cognitive test scores; portable bar code scanners are useful for monitoring adherence; and voice mail reduces tardiness and complete forgetting.
(10) The pirouette mutation was tested for possible genetic linkage with naked neck, tardy feathering, the MN t(Z;1) chromosome rearrangement, all assigned to distinctly different regions of Chromosome 1, and the OH inv(2) chromosome rearrangement and shankless (associated with the OH inv(2) rearrangement).
(11) Gay rights campaigners point to the Reagan administration’s reluctance to accept the seriousness of Aids as a health issue and tardiness in tackling the resulting crisis in the 1980s.
(12) Even on Saturday, Emmanuel Steward, commentating for HBO, complained repeatedly about the champion's mindset - his insistence on watching the Celtics vs Heat Game 7 , his tardiness to the ring - while praising the collected nature and focus of his younger opponent.
(13) Cubitus varus cases with tardy ulnar nerve palsy, compared to cases without it, were older at the first visit to the clinic for cubitus varus deformity.
(14) Tardy ulnar nerve palsy in the child is an infrequent occurrence.
(15) Thewlis described his conversations with Reynolds in the eccentric Clerkenwell watering hole The Tardis, "about Jesse James and James Joyce".
(16) But he made amends in the 52nd minute when the Jets expertly exploited Adelaide's tardiness.
(17) Nigel Farage , who was so late to a Ukip pre-conference event in Port Talbot that it ended before he arrived, says his tardiness is nothing to do with his professionalism, but is in fact because of immigrants.
(18) Tardy or incompletely dissected circular plaster bandage turned out to be a factor of complication.
(19) Smith said: "He took quite a lot of interest in the Tardis's controls and asked a lot of questions about it.
(20) An unpleasant feature of these glaucomas is that, somehow or other, treatment comes too late: complete cupping of the optic disk when the ophthalmologist is first consulted, increased intraocular pressure in exfoliation syndrome detected too late, or a tardy decision to perform an iridotomy or a fistulizing operation.