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How to use the word Lagging in a Sentence?

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We expect rents will keep hitting new highs, driven by factors including still-low vacancy rates, lagging new construction and demand from would-be first-time buyers.

Danielle Hale

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The next time we're facing a pandemic, we cannot have a kid’s vaccine lagging 18 months behind the adults, so you cannot use data from an adult vaccine and then apply it to your kids. It just doesn't work. They're too small. Their dosage is totally different. So we can't do that. The next time we have a pandemic, we really have to start all these things up at once.

Jill Roberts

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Financials are still extremely cheap relative to the market, while they've done well more recently, they've been lagging for a number of years.

Jonathan Golub

Found on CNN
3 years ago

There are cities that are lagging behind and we have new increases in Miami, New Orleans, Las Vegas, San Jose, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, Cleveland, Nashville, Pittsburgh, Columbus, and Baltimore, so we're tracking this very closely.

Deborah Birx

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Three years after that report was submitted, the intelligence community is still lagging behind and has failed to adopt even the most basic cybersecurity technologies in widespread use elsewhere in the federal government.

Ron Wyden

Found on CNN
3 years ago

A precondition for the success of the app is that it has to be safe and anonymous, and state-of-the-art in terms of the technology, with regard to the latter I am only mildly optimistic as East Germany is lagging behind in terms of digitization compared to other countries.

Sebastian Siegloch

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We came in on Monday, and we see things are happening. And from a disciplined point of view, we were actually putting more trades, on things that were lagging, such as the VIX.

Diego Parrilla

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It just reflects an incredible disconnect between the politicians who are lagging behind what we're seeing from the youth on the streets, and with what businesses and investors are doing.

Helen Mountford

Found on CNN
4 years ago

This is a very dangerous part of the cycle, we're 10 years into an expansion and it seems clear that the Fed has overtightened. Unemployment is a lagging indicator. And negative interest rates can be found in many places. If the(Fed's) goal is to keep the expansion going, they need to be more aggressive. You have to think bigger than a so-called (and mislabeled) insurance rate cut.

Jeffrey Gundlach

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Restricting Europes Huawei dilemma Huawei from doing business in the US will not make the US more secure or stronger ; instead, this will only serve to limit the US to inferior yet more expensive alternatives, leaving the Charlie Dai lagging behind in 5G deployment.

Charlie Dai

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Australia has certainly been lagging behind on climate change action, by which I mean the effort to decarbonize the economy and reduce emissions.

Frank Jotzo

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I have noticed the president's Twitter, he said that the U.S. needs faster and smarter 5G, or even 6G in the future, and he has realized that the U.S. is lagging behind in this respect, and I think his message is clear and correct.

Huawei Chairman Guo

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Rural and urban development and environmental governance is imbalanced, and the environmental foundations and infrastructure in rural regions is severely lagging.

Li Ganjie

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We do not aim to divide the European Union. On the contrary, we aim to help eastern Europe and the Balkans which are lagging behind to catch up.

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Compared to our bigger rival...we are lagging behind in volume, including production capacity.

Toshiba Memory president Yasuo Naruke

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

[ But in March 2007 ] we were working out one morning and Paul Newman was lagging. Paul Newman was usually way ahead of us. Later Paul Newman was coming to a board meeting, but Paul Newman said, ‘ I ’m really exhausted. ’ We told Paul Newman to go see a doctor and Paul Newman did. Paul Newman kept Paul Newman sunny personality until Paul Newman death in 2008. ( Reuters) Then a series of other things happened. But you could n’t really tell Paul Newman was sick until 2008, when you could see the effects of the chemo. But it did n’t affect Paul Newman personality. i lost a great friend, but we’re carrying on his work the best way we can.

Bob Forrester

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

The pressure builds (for democracy), the young people today are educated, skilful, demanding, and eventually we have to listen and I think that will happen to all those that are still lagging behind.

Johnson Sirleaf

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

A bank's balance sheet is the engine for profit growth, the constraints on Well's ability to take on deposits and make new loans will likely result in lagging earnings growth for Wells relative to peers in the near-term.

Kyle Sanders

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

What (the report is) pointing to is something really interesting which is this gap between public and private life. The public in some cases is further ahead and the private is lagging behind.

El Feki

Found on CNN
6 years ago

We like to think of ourselves as being a very, very progressive industry, but we have been lagging behind in all kinds of areas.

Harry Potter

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

KFC is lagging woefully behind. Diners around the country want KFC to step up.

Lena Brook

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Hillary is a huge front-runner in the polls, but in terms of passion, she's lagging, not as many people want to wear a Clinton T-shirt.

Laura Ries

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

I do not expect Robert Milton to interfere with the CEO, but rather use Robert Milton insight and experience to support and encourage Munoz to re-evaluate the overall post-merger strategy for the airline as it appears to be lagging its peers on several fronts.

Henri Courpron

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Among big Chinese companies, when it comes to developing clean and renewable energies, we are not lagging behind at all, we are hoping that in 20 or 30 years, we can bring down the costs of non-fossil fuel energies and at the same time raise the scale of construction, and during this process, allow fossil fuels and non-fossil fuels to be harmonised and provide mutual support.

Shenhua President Zhang Yuzhuo

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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