How To Use Laggard In A Sentence
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The only realistic way is to raise Britain's laggard productivity performance.
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Once wide awake, even enterprising, they slowly become dilatory, leaden, slow, laggard, and lumpish.
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Everybody else thinks I'm either crazy or some kind of laggard.
KISS OF THE BEES
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Greenpeace corporate environmental campaigner Monica Richter says Greenpeace will be asking Australia's biggest companies how they measure up on the issues so it could separate the progressives from the laggards.
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President Bush argues that civil-service regulations are outmoded and that national security will be enhanced if the secretary of Homeland Security can punish laggards and reward talent.
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NEW MEANINGS analyst gate mu-meson bob immune, adj. muonon, butter pat laggard suffix delocalize, v. lagger paging derrick, v. meson plasma digger microelectrode poach, v. fat receptor reduplicate, gravisphere ductibility v. moonfall electrohydraulic spinner parakite standoff resistojet fluidonics station BLENDS (2) fluoridizer zone gayola incapacitator VARIANT FORM plench Mosleyite tabbouli BOUND-MORPHEME mysterium FUNCTIONAL ITEMS (7) oceanologic,
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President Georgi Purvanov says Bulgaria does not want to be tied to laggard countries in its bid for European Union membership.
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By disintermediating I mean making a 'frictionless' sales process for buyer and seller, thus allowing a cheaper selling price, and thus decrease in total revenue for laggard realtors.
Archive 2005-07-01
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More important, India needs to get laggard companies out of state hands to help them grow again and make them competitive in world markets.
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That valuation was much higher than the price-to-earnings ratio of 52 at Nasdaq-listed rival business-to-business search engine Global Sources Ltd. and the 177 P/E ratio of Chinese-language Internet-search provider Baidu. com Inc.Mr. Lai said he expects bargain hunters to sell the "overshot" Alibaba. com and use the funds to buy market laggards.
Doubts on Alibaba.com?
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The intransitive very inactive verb is from the 15th-century Scottish dialect noun lungis, meaning “laggard, lingerer,” rooted in the Latin Longinus, the apocryphal name of the soldier who lanced Jesus in the side, and was influenced by longus, “long,” associated with “slow.”
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
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Returns for the first group confirm the widely held belief that ownership requirements enhance the performance of laggard companies.
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These ‘old’ Europe societies, far from being the front-runners, are in so many ways the laggards in handling the global challenges of the 21st century.
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As the CEO of the laggard portal company, Lansing has faced his share of critics, and most of them are emphatic that his ideas won't work.
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Why bother to invest in training when the benefits are likely to accrue to laggard firms?
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I can confirm from personal knowledge and with full evidence to support the charge -- he is a scoundrel, a blaggard and a proven liar with all the ethics of a semi-house-trained polecat.
Martin Lewis: Murdoch Scandal: New Arrest Heralds US Peril for Murdoch
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Laggards are the most localite in their outlook of all adopter categories; many are near isolates in the social networks of their system.
Diffusion of Innovations
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How do you motivate people when there is no way to reward the efficient or punish the laggard?
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But few people realize how long it will take before these directors get up to speed, change a corporate culture, and, if necessary, sweep out the laggards.
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Operational tempo seemed particularly laggard after major victories, when maintaining the momentum of victory would seem to have promised the greatest rewards.
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He was classified as a laggard on my innovativeness scale because he had not adopted any of the dozen agricultural innovations recommended by agricultural experts.
Diffusion of Innovations
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Fiorina insists all the laggard businesses will be profitable by the middle of next year, or face more pruning.
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Another laggard was the Department of Defense, which was among a group of five agencies that only met or surpassed one of its five targets.
US Misses Target for Small-Business Contracts
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Once wide awake, even enterprising, they slowly become dilatory, leaden, slow, laggard, and lumpish.
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Pyongyang was also voicing mounting impatience with what it deemed laggard progress on the reactor project.
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The laggards were agricultural commodities, known as softs.
Times, Sunday Times
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Among the laggards, General Electric fell 2 percent, as did Merck.
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Even the laggard economies of Germany and Italy are beginning to look a lot better as they're helped by the weak currency.
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Yes, I mean to date Germany and Japan have been real laggards, far behind countries out there like Thailand, South Africa, Poland.
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Product performance is laggard, dependability is poor, life is brief. Lack market competition ability.
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And if the laggard is a man, they imitate the cry with which they call a he-goat; if a woman, the cry with which they call a she-goat.
The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion
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This middle position may reassure educators that laggard schools will be prodded without undermining public education.
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The actual coming on board from the tug I had missed, but for'ard of the amidship house I encountered a few laggards who had not yet gone into the forecastle.
CHAPTER III
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Once wide awake, even enterprising, they slowly become dilatory, leaden, slow, laggard, and lumpish.
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Instead of naming and shaming laggards, the European Commission is urging national governments and parliaments to take charge of the economic reform agenda and appoint national bodies to accelerate change.
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Bruce's "blaggard" relative was a distinguished gardener who was the curator of Belfast's famous Royal Botanical Gardens.
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That's leaving laggards such as Fujitsu and Toshiba further behind.
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The company has developed a reputation as a technological laggard in the personal-computer arena.
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(Aye, even now it's roastin 'on a stick while he burns in the greasy flames of Hell, along with that bilge-sucking Newton blaggard.)
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Granted, hard-core globalization critics were skeptical from the start because the Compact lacked a rigorous system for monitoring corporate behavior and punishing laggards.
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Meanwhile, the steady rise in equity prices this year means that laggard companies are better able to restructure by selling off noncore assets at reasonable prices.
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She said that Newry's success is not through external help but through the energy of the people that ‘captured the imagination of the whole of Ireland and even cajoled the laggard politicians.’
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Supervisors who improved community safety and prisoner reintegration would be rewarded; the laggards would not.
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Yet other pioneers such as France and the Netherlands had tighter regulations for the practice of law, in the case of France a system virtually identical to that of the laggards Belgium and Italy.
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My infallible dictionary (the Internet) has a blaggard as a man who swears in front of a woman; therefore, I conclude that a "blaggard's moon" is a man who shows his butt in front of a woman.
Ack! Le Tour de Blog!
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UNABBREVIATED antimissile laggard SHORTENINGS (6) antirheu - lagger detox, v. matic, adj. meson gox antisexist, microelec - hydro adj. trode immuno -, audiotypist mu-meson comb. bioelectro - muon form genesis
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Many investors want him to get rid of laggard performers, such as GE Appliances and GE Lighting.
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A laggard was the business-jet segment, whose earnings dropped 39% on flat revenue.
BE Aerospace Profit Climbs
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Before long we get back to root of the insult "blaggard" or the black guard slave corps then we're at the buccaneers or "privateers" who tipped the balance in global european expansion.
Indymedia Ireland
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How do you motivate people when there is no way to reward the efficient or punish the laggard?
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UNABBREVIATED antimissile laggard SHORTENINGS (6) antirheu - lagger detox, v. matic, adj. meson gox antisexist, microelec - hydro adj. trode immuno -, audiotypist mu-meson comb. bioelectro - muon form genesis
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It is a competitive world and the laggards will have to rue their complacency.
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There was no hint of the laggard now in Tom, Dick and Harry -- no suspicion of "staleness" in their keen pride in their work; Irish and
Baldy of Nome
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The point of reference for the laggard is the past.
Diffusion of Innovations
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Morris stayed busy enough in the daytime, shuttling between committee offices, the countinghouse, and the waterfront, where he harangued teams of seamen and stevedores—“I have scolded the officers like a gutter-whore,” he said of one laggard crew.
Robert Morris
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UNABBREVIATED antimissile laggard SHORTENINGS (6) antirheu - lagger detox, v. matic, adj. meson gox antisexist, microelec - hydro adj. trode immuno -, audiotypist mu-meson comb. bioelectro - muon form genesis
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Chris Huhne: You, prime minister, are a blaggard and a liar.
David Cameron quotes Benny Hill song, but it's not the PM's greatest hit
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Without faster change, Italy is bound to fall further behind, becoming a potential drag on the already-depressed euro while former laggards such as Spain, Ireland, and Finland surge ahead.
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I'm going back to see if Jackoff called anybody a "blaggard" in past posts, because we know that the FIRST part of that "period" term means "Black" and has some serious racist overtones to it.
City Council Stands Up To ACLU on Behalf of LAPD and The City
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Some key organizers think the AFL-CIO should still push laggard unions to organize more and help to coordinate more strategic, coordinated campaigns.
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The typical changeover takes 18 months to complete, so the pressure is now on laggards to get their house in order before the transition period runs out on December 31 next year.
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The only way we can cope ecologically is to make Australia an environmental leader, not a laggard.
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Canada leads the laggards with emissions growth at 20 percent from 1990 although it has committed to a 6 percent reduction by 2012.
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This global view is based on multispeed growth dynamics, with the healing and healthy segments of the global economy gradually pulling up the laggards.
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In golf, he notes, statistics show that ‘in the final round of play, the tournament leaders improved their score more than did the laggards.’
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Their words were soothing and completely removed any doubts we once had about possible product overlap or how 64-bit Xeons might slow already laggard Itanium sales.
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The company has developed a reputation as a technological laggard in the personal-computer arena.
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We are the laggard partner in this co-evolution.
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Put a team back in Winnipeg: If it means putting Pittsburgh out of its misery or shifting laggard Atlanta, so be it.
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The drivers in the long line of traffic that builds up behind these laggards get frustrated and so their driving becomes more dangerous.
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Ark Life has shaken off its laggard status of recent years by producing the best performing unit linked Irish domestic fund in 2003.
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NEW MEANINGS analyst gate mu-meson bob immune, adj. muonon, butter pat laggard suffix delocalize, v. lagger paging derrick, v. meson plasma digger microelectrode poach, v. fat receptor reduplicate, gravisphere ductibility v. moonfall electrohydraulic spinner parakite standoff resistojet fluidonics station BLENDS (2) fluoridizer zone gayola incapacitator VARIANT FORM plench Mosleyite tabbouli BOUND-MORPHEME mysterium FUNCTIONAL ITEMS (7) oceanologic,
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XV No 1
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The government has an array of annual gifts and exemptions that taxpayers can use to reduce their bills and boost their investments, but laggards need to act fast.
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As a result Britain has slipped down every league table of international competitiveness to rest with the laggards of continental Europe.
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After comparing my own views to what more "mainstream" types consider stylish and "pro-reform," I think I've figured out where I-- and a lot of my friends and allies -- crossed the line into "radicalism" (or "laggardism," depending on the particular moment at which your labeler is speaking).
Sabrina Stevens Shupe: Sane is the new Radical
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The company has developed a reputation as a technological laggard in the personal-computer arena.
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And if we don't innovate, if we are averse to taking risks in the area of innovation, we won't be around in the future because the expense ratios will drop so much, it will leave the laggards behind and they'll lose market share.
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If the people about you are carrying on their business or their benevolence at a pace which drains the life out of you, resolutely take a slower pace; be called a laggard, make less money, accomplish less work than they, but be what you were meant to be and can be.
Daily Strength for Daily Needs
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And if the laggard is a man, they imitate the cry with which they call a he-goat; if a woman, the cry with which they call a she-goat.
Chapter 48. The Corn-Spirit as an Animal. § 6. The Corn-spirit as a Goat
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There's one reason for the laggard performance: costs.
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Miss Wilmot gave the word as the last laggard arrived panting.
CHALLENGE FOR THE CHALET SCHOOL
