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"slowness" Definitions
  1. the fact of not moving, acting or doing something quickly; the fact of taking a long time
  2. the fact of not going or not allowing you to go at a fast speed
  3. the fact of hesitating to do something or of not doing something immediately
  4. the fact of not being quick to learn; the fact of finding things hard to understand
  5. the fact of not being very busy; the fact of containing little action

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437 Sentences With "slowness"

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What has defied expectations is the slowness of the response.
The FCC blamed the slowness on a cyberattack, not Oliver.
In part, that's due to the country's slowness to urbanize.
The man moved over rocks with a slowness I envied.
The slowness, the passage of time, dulls the public's outrage.
Others defended the party and its slowness to report results.
The house's slowness gives Oz leisure to let sentences unfold.
And there's still the practical matter of the slowness of email.
But with all the focus on slowness, preparation, camp-making, etc.
American industry is cooking up ways to solve this slowness problem.
Some sites load with soul-withering slowness, or not at all.
Sloths slowness, as it turns out, is the key to their survival.
The reason is rarely slowness, because the time windows are quite generous.
Again, I am not trying to claim that slowness is a feature!
It's the slowness of these multi-generational, old school shops to modernize.
But there is a silver lining in the slowness of the process.
Slowness, within the realm of judicial decision making, is typically a virtue.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's slowness to respond has also upset them.
Sometimes, the orchestra recedes into what can seem like murky, hovering slowness.
Heck, based upon the slowness of Model X production, it could be longer.
Part of the slowness has come from the rigor of the vetting process.
" Its "uncompromising slowness," she wrote, "makes it hard to sit through without talking.
Whether talking about horses or not, he spoke with slowness, deliberation and care.
The slowness of the tortoise was proportional to the patience of the photographer.
Also, coming soon, an explanation for the pharmacy's slowness in sending the proper meds.
Moreover, his slowness at staffing the government meant that the normal procedures weren't followed.
It's that same slowness that Sharon's willing to invest in these girls over years.
The proposal also seeks to address concerns about the slowness of India's legal system.
As journalists, we feel frustrated by the instability of the internet, the overall slowness.
The physicality of it, the fragility evoked by such slowness, was perplexing and beautiful.
But the slowness of Ali's fingers was saved by the speed of his mouth.
The main symptoms of the disease are tremor, bradykinesia (or slowness of movement), and rigidity.
I'm not only willing to overlook the X1D's slowness, I actually consider it an asset.
Goldman's slowness in reacting to these structural changes has allowed its competitors to catch up.
Expecting slowness to persist, they trimmed first quarter growth to 1.5 percent from 1.75 percent.
This slowness and patience is haunting when placed in the midst of hectic Times Square.
Few of her theatrical endeavors exploring sculptural slowness, including her latest, have felt as satisfying.
And slowness won't benefit people who are dying with severe shortness of breath or pain.
Slowness has been used in games to significant effect; time and rhythm are design tools.
In winter, he said, you get to catch your breath and revel in the slowness.
We weren't married until 1992, and part of that was just my slowness to mature.
This leads to new experiences still being stuck with the slowness of the old system.
You know maybe we would have had some slowness by now if they hadn't stimulated.
"Physically, a patient can experience motor tremors, stiffness, slowness and shuffling of the feet," he said.
But it's a change—from London's freneticism to the relative slowness of rural Scotland—he welcomes.
All of which should give you some leads on identifying sources of slowness on your computer.
There is a slowness to life that is attractive, she says, and a sense of community.
This slowness was caused less by technological inadequacy than by caution on the part of regulators.
But she added that she had been disappointed by the slowness of talks with the companies.
Of course, for Facebook M and Messenger's other bots, this slowness could be an early stopgap.
She goes about her work with the slowness that her ageing legs and swollen ankles require.
It was December and the weather was dog shit, so a degree of slowness was expected.
Some areas of slowness, such as consumer spending, were expected to pass due to transitory reasons.
She makes the case with this tape that it's actually slowness that is closest to godliness.
The high cost and slowness of transaction speeds have limited bitcoin's usability as a digital currency.
Given the initial slowness, I thought better of a multicourse arrangement that could last until midnight.
She returned to the car, waving the bottle jauntily, and climbed in with elaborate, maddening slowness.
Silicon Valley's slowness to respond to the problems has allowed them to become even more complicated.
Some clients reported slowness logging into My Merrill and Merrill Edge due to unprecedented trading volume.
The administration has taken some well-deserved criticism for its slowness in appointing key political personnel.
Although I continued to work full time, I struggled more and more with tremors and slowness.
And the studio has been criticized for its slowness to create movies emphasizing its female characters.
On this day the Orthodox do less and in slowness can glimpse the seeds of eternity.
He was confronted by teammates in March over the slowness of his recovery, which furthered the divide.
The slowness, he said, is due to more conservative consumers taking longer to adopt the new product.
Is this a case of Nintendo being behind the times, or any wider slowness in the industry?
As Shaked pointed out, the slowness was a result of joining four separate tables of byte values.
The Idol 2360S is a fast and responsive phone and I didn't experience any sluggishness or slowness.
Across the empty prairie, driving carefully in and out of the ruts, it approached with antlike slowness.
But the game is better for its slowness, and in speeding it up something valuable is lost.
The drab tonalities and the deliberate slowness of "Sabrina" challenge a genre that leans toward the overheated.
The cost and slowness of always going to court had made appeal of bad patents too unreliable.
The key to her proc­ess, she told me, is time — hence the agonizing slowness of the writing.
There also are some pockets of the economy that remain mired in slowness, most notably wage gains.
One of the key features of this invisible primary season has been the slowness of elite endorsements.
But the US's slowness to act on recent Russian hacking is likely encouraging Russia to contemplate cyber intrigue.
S. corn plantings are showing slowness after the recent wetness after heavy snow in some U.S. regions melted.
Australia has been criticised by international human rights groups over its slowness to act on same-sex marriage.
Australia has been criticized by international human rights groups over its slowness to act on same-sex marriage.
Startup founders across the board look for people that want to disrupt existing structures and combat procedural slowness.
But that still didn't quite prepare me for the agonizing slowness with which the final denouement played out.
I get irrationally impatient with the slowness with which people tap meetings into their calendars on the phone.
Some employees are planning a group walkout from the meeting in protest of the museum's slowness to respond.
Spotless has since delivered a series of earnings downgrades, blaming slowness of government contracts and the mining downturn.
Gautier's friends and relatives have also denounced the slowness of the rescue operation, saying more could have been done.
Housing market weakness has been a drag on growth, though, and officials attributed the slowness to rising mortgage rates.
That problem is compounded by the slowness and inconsistency of Android phone makers in implementing Google's latest security patches.
At one point, he lamented the media&aposs supposed slowness in calling the state for him on election night.
NBC's sheer size combined with cautious lawyers and general slowness gave the Post the chance to get the scoop.
But in July, the group lowered its forecast to 3.5 percent growth, citing unexpected slowness in the first quarter.
With remarkable slowness, the rocket began to rise, the grip of gravity yielding to the force of its engines.
Eiko, whose own work deals vividly, sometimes mournfully, with slowness and stillness, brings out the best in her colleagues.
He had created a comic whose drab tonalities and deliberate slowness challenged a genre that leans toward the overheated.
Next, the company is addressing the "fatness" and "slowness" of its sites to ensure the reader experience is faster.
Both pieces achieved a darkly trancelike quality and, in their embrace of slowness and repetition, weren't always warmly received.
Hitler was always unhappy with the slowness of reading and writing, compared with the vivid electricity of his rallies.
A world of simple words and deceptively simple concepts, and a slowness that allowed for silence, focus and joy.
It can be "an act of slowness," allowing you to process the constant flood of information from behind screens.
At the same time, he decried the slowness with which lawmakers and regulators have applied "technological thinking" to governance.
Some, like slowness, speed, stillness and density, are fairly easy to grasp; others, like discrepancy and transmission, are more elusive.
You are invited to see how light and shadow fall over the island's forms with a comforting slowness and consistency.
This issue is also very topical because of the apparent slowness of productivity growth, despite the excitement over new technology.
They founded Volition partly in reaction to their frustration with the beauty industry's relative slowness to embrace diversity and inclusion.
Senator Sanders has spent nearly four decades advocating revolutionary change for a nation whose politics often move with glacial slowness.
Not through hunger pains, which I'd disciplined into disappearing, but through a feeling of weakness and slowness when I exercised.
Regardless of financing, the relative slowness of the recovery in Puerto Rico is seen by some people here as dehumanizing.
Sometimes upgrading an older computer to new software can result in slowness, or a lack of support for new features.
A senior diplomat in Baghdad said the U.S. government was alarmed by Baghdad's slowness to educate civilians about a possible breach.
Dotcom, who lives in New Zealand, has been fighting extradition in a case which has moved with glacial slowness at times.
Other disses aimed at grounded telepresence robots include their slowness, power inefficiencies and inability to travel between floors without human assistance.
In a paper posted online last June, Ahmadi and Majumdar explain a way to get around the slowness of semidefinite programming.
The slowness of crude exports has forced Turkmen producers to stockpile oil throughout January and February, the six trading sources said.
There was also continued slowness in the system Delta uses to check in customers, board passengers and dispatch planes, West said.
He pointed out that this slowness is usually just short-term, which would explain why searches drop back down fairly quickly.
The business confederation's Saraiva said a recent survey showed companies rated slowness of courts as their main concern weighing on investment.
It's the kind of slowness I haven't seen on a smartphone camera in years and nobody should have to wait for.
There was so much interest in bitcoin futures that it seemed to overload Cboe's website, with the exchange warning of slowness.
The slowness of the vote counting has clouded over the fact that the Democrats had a very good night on Tuesday.
Fed officials have expressed concern that global slowness could infect the U.S., and that inflation remains below the Fed's 2% target.
I knew also that her refusal to let her ideas succumb to reality had led to her slowness to denounce Stalinism.
Some island officials, frustrated by the slowness of the United Nations process, have decided to take matters into their own hands.
They called for greater vigilance in those communities and sharply criticized Florida authorities for their slowness in closing beaches and nightspots.
A syndrome marked by slowness, weakness, fatigue and often weight loss, frailty tells doctors a lot about their patients' likely futures.
"Risotto is such a relaxing thing to make because of the slowness of it," she said in a recent phone call.
Kellen Heniford, a graduate student in the history department, said she found the seeming gentleness and slowness of the outcome galling.
And so, if the book is a bit slow and sad, well, it is the recognizable slowness and sadness of life.
But runners seem to be maintaining that rate of decline longer, until they are about age 80, when slowness drastically intensifies.
"It means job growth was never as strong in 2018 as we thought, and the slowness is of concern," he said.
Parkinson's disease is a neurodegenerative disorder that can cause tremors, slowness of movement and other symptoms, according to the Parkinson's Foundation.
Still, the main problem with this ARM chip doesn't come from slowness with Windows itself, but with many of the apps.
The country's judiciary is reviled by many citizens for its gargantuan bureaucracy, slowness in delivering verdicts and outsize salaries for judges.
Meyerowitz does something unusual with the view camera here: He uses its slowness, its difficulty with moving subjects, as an asset.
Parkinson's disease is a neurological disorder that can cause tremors, stiffness, slowness of movement, trouble balancing, problems walking and difficulty coordinating movement.
Ali, 220, has the symptoms of Parkinson's disease: He experiences tremors, slowness of movement and a muscular rigidity that compromises his speech.
Certain games thrive on slowness, including Gone Home, which is about a young woman haunting a world she no longer quite recognizes.
I expected worse because it uses the old Qualcomm Snapdragon 2100 processor, which has a reputation for slowness and bad battery life.
In light of the slowness of the economic recovery, some have questioned the effectiveness of asset purchases and extended forward rate guidance.
But we're in a post-print world, where social media moves at the speed of images, not at the slowness of words.
The central bank is expected to continue on a path of periodic rate increases, but slowness in inflation could alter its plans.
During a visit to Buenos Aires in March, President Obama bemoaned the slowness of the U.S. to condemn the crackdown in Argentina.
I don't even resent Red Dead Redemption 2 for its slowness, or the decided lack of fun embedded into its design philosophy.
Gvasalia told Vogue that, rather than trundle along the expensive and repetitive conveyor belt of runway shows, it's embracing slowness and purposefulness.
It went on to lament the slowness of enacting provisions that the United Nations Security Council had called for in February 2015.
And for me, the slowness has led to a tactics game that walks the tightrope of feeling fair while keeping consequences real.
"There is a slowness to it, even the visual identity of it feels slow," said Aurora James, the designer of Brother Vellies.
Here's something we may have in common, Gabe: a certain slowness to admit we're wrong, accompanied by the digging in of heels.
In fact, the ad industry's slowness to shift to digital is at the root of the problems faced by news and entertainment.
I've always found that unplugging my modem and router for about a minute and then restarting the system can improve some slowness.
Back at the woman's house, she's so cold that she moves with a regal slowness, like a shipwrecked queen trudging toward shore.
But they attribute the slowness to Buttigieg's dramatic rise in the Democratic field, which has forced his campaign to scale up rapidly.
The vote was nonbinding, but it was a sharp protest vote, reflecting impatience with corruption and the slowness of overhauls in Ukraine.
While the mix of slowness and surprise can be engrossing enough (close your eyes and dream to the procedural music), there is more.
I suspect that many people resent this slowness because it implicitly criticizes a fast-paced lifestyle predicated on the consumption of the new.
The slowness of the antiquated process and Will's ease with celebrities allows for unique and intimate sides of familiar faces to be seen.
Again there's going to be an element of trial and error as you try and work out what's behind the slowness you're seeing.
It suggests not only something mercurial about the human spirit, or the enervating slowness of progress, but also a haze of deep vulnerability.
Since coming under the protection of strict wildlife laws in 2200, the playful creatures have been rising in number, but with agonizing slowness.
But the slowness in introducing reforms became evident when trouble at Eskom, the state utility, led to the worst rolling blackouts in years.
Late-night hosts heaped scorn on President Trump on Tuesday for what they called his slowness in addressing the fallout from Hurricane Maria.
The parliament's petty squabbles—and the grinding slowness of European initiative to which they contribute—is an indulgence the EU can scarcely afford.
" TD Ameritrade said in a message on its website: "Due to volatile market conditions we are currently experiencing slowness on our web platform.
The stultifying slowness of the Arab League summits has become a permanent feature of the Arab world, emblematic of its readiness for change.
Italian banks, along with Greek ones, are seen as particularly exposed to the measures because of the slowness of their countries' legal systems.
Mosul municipal officials and Western donors are concerned that the slowness of reconstruction might rekindle Sunni-Shi'ite sectarian grievances that Islamic State exploited.
But it comes amid growing public criticism of Socialist Prime Minister Antonio Costa's government over the perceived slowness of its response to the disaster.
A neurologist will look at the criteria for motor and non-motor symptoms, often times before the appearance of tremors and stiffness and slowness.
The slowness in cosmetics is showing itself in the industry's titans, Sephora and Ulta, thereby possibly denting the exclusive loyalty brands feel toward them.
The ACLU said it was working with various charities to find the parents, but had been frustrated by the government's slowness in providing information.
The slowness is acceptable for the Watch's core built-in functions, but it makes it basically useless as a platform for third-party apps.
The storm left much of the island in disarray, and Rosselló has said he believes the president was responsible for the slowness of relief.
Trillions in digital money printing along with bargain-basement interest rates have been the main weapons of choice to combat recurring episodes of slowness.
On Monday, a few brokerages reported temporary issues or slowness on their customer websites, including T. Rowe Price and TD Ameritrade, that were resolved.
This is especially true in light of our slowness to fully grasp all that was going on in the late years of Obama's presidency.
But there's also a slowness, a deliberateness that's inherent to a climate like the one in Houston (as well as New Orleans, Solange's other home).
However, the complaint filed Monday claims that Redstone suffers from dementia, impaired cognition, a slowness of mental processing, a loss of memory, apathy and depression.
Meanwhile, Twitter faced a lawsuit in the United States alleging that its slowness in removing posts from ISIS constituted material support to the terrorist group.
Some combination of this deal falling through and the general slowness of VR market growth made most of our investors reluctant to fund us further.
In an interview with Fox Business Network's Maria Bartiromo, Trump insisted that the slowness in staffing up the executive branch was due to Democratic obstructionism.
The DJ, who has a solo turn on the stage later in the show, cues up the music with theatrical slowness on a CD player.
If my apps are running just fine and I'm not noticing any slowness that impacts my use, why do I need a nominally faster processor?
Fischer attributed much of the slowness both in the economy and the inflation rate to seasonal factors that will go away as the year progresses.
" He said, "The greatest miracle of all is that I put up with you guys, with humanity, humanity's slowness in taking in the true message.
Often while visiting ancient towns and cities, which are socially, economically and culturally well-knit, we are struck by a strange, unexpected silence and slowness.
Unemployment rose to almost 10 percent, then came down with painful slowness; it didn't get back to 5 percent until seven years after Lehman's fall.
It was nighttime, drizzly, the season's 13th game, and suddenly there was tentativeness to Seattle's quarterback, a slowness that has not been evident all year.
Saturdays will be devoted to conversations and other activities among writers and performers engaged with the Platform's themes: voice and body, kin and care, slowness.
And the delays are worsening a leadership shortage at many agencies, which have already been stretched by Trump's slowness to nominate people for senior positions.
And when you expand the view to larger company-wide issues, Samsung's slowness to update its phones to the latest version of Android is downright embarrassing.
Instead, he placed blame for much of the slowness on social programs, which he said has been taking away money that could be spent on investment.
I know we had talked about them being slow, a lot of people I talk to — Vic Gundotra — there's this slowness of the change in regulatory.
When he saw that I had seen him, he shrugged and, with great slowness, sat down on the curb, stretching his legs into the empty street.
This time, the earlier sections made the strongest, biggest impression: how her phrasing provocatively hinted at barely contained energy, sometimes through the pressure of exaggerated slowness.
Such a machine, the speculation goes, would not be bounded by bothersome human limitations, such as slowness of thought, emotions, irrational biases and need for sleep.
Engadget  Endgadget&aposs senior editor Chris Velazco was generally impressed by the device, even if there were a few issues, like dealing with slowness in apps.
Even when the wheels of justice do turn, the slowness of the courts discourages all but the infinitely patient, naive or rich from resorting to them.
First off, one of the reasons the market rallied in mid-February was because everyone thought central banks would be more dovish on the global slowness.
It matters not that the Republicans orchestrated much of the slowness, that they forced austerity measures upon a nation crying out for an infusion of capital.
Many of these were in perfectly good condition when they were abandoned at the first sign of slowness and replaced with faster, better-looking Apple products.
In the letter, dated a couple days earlier, Palmieri wrote that the campaign was "perplexed by the Times' slowness to acknowledge its errors" about the story.
"It wouldn't surprise me if the commercial community formed its own self-defense group, given the slowness and lack of action by the authorities," said López.
This slowness has become a problem amid the current Zika epidemic, as the virus has exploded across the Americas since arriving in Brazil, probably around 2013.
At a moment when both fact and fiction seem to have accelerated, the dark and entrancing slowness of "Twin Peaks" offers a counterintuitive mode of recalibration.
TD Ameritrade, also experienced "some slowness in the reporting of trade confirmations this morning related to heavy trade volumes at the open," the broker told CNBC.
The first few chapters may have some tablesetting slowness, but they have strong cliffhangers pushing from one episode to the next, building to a breathless finale.
Recruitment firm PageGroup advanced 5.4 percent after posting higher first-quarter gross profit, as robust business in Britain and Germany offset slowness in Greater China and France.
And look at their assumptions for the year: 2 percent GDP growth in the U.S., slower China (6 percent GDP), and continued slowness in Europe post-Brexit.
Powell noted potential headwinds to growth, including slowness in housing and the potential that fiscal stimulus through tax cuts could wear off in another year or so.
At the Good Morning America barricades, a contingency from East Brooklyn Congregations assembled, carrying signs ("Stop stealing from seniors") protesting de Blasio's slowness to build senior housing.
However, Dauman's more recent suit goes further, claiming that Redstone suffers from dementia, impaired cognition, a slowness of mental processing, a loss of memory, apathy and depression.
Granted, this is an old-fashioned method for making infusions—in recent years, instant infusions have been all the rage—but there's something satisfying about the slowness.
Many of these problems were most apparent in Chrome, but the slowness is noticeable all throughout Windows 133 on the Surface Go. There's lag when opening photos.
Much of the foreign business community has been frustrated by Beijing's slowness to act on commitments made when the country joined the World Trade Organization in 2001.
But experts say his slowness to fill deputy positions at agencies is equally important, as those officials handle much of the day-to-day management of government.
The Bay Area-born composer Ana Roxanne preaches slowness, both in the title of a track and in the general disposition of her misty and mystical album ~~~.
But with regulation, competitors, and the inherent caution and slowness of the health industry, Medal has a tough road ahead to getting us off clumsy paper records.
But in its density and its slowness it adds a kind of sombre, almost Proustian counterpoint to what might otherwise be just a fleeting procession of events.
MORTON FELDMAN AT 201743 It's startling to realize that Feldman, the magician of glacial slowness who died in 201733, was just 201723 years older than Steve Reich.
He noted that the association brought him "opportunities," and said his slowness in ditching Epstein as a friend was because of his tendency to be "too honorable."
" In The Federalist No. 10, James Madison suggested that the slowness of communication between distant states would prevent the formation of organized factions inflamed "with mutual animosity.
Achour chewed on a stalk, stood up to survey the horizon, and sat down again, cursing his son, the slowness of donkeys, and the stupidity of women.
"Slowness in getting the response to Ebola moving had devastating consequences in West Africa and led to panic and confusion here in the United States," Klain writes.
They burst onto the City Center Theater stage with heroic vitality: The texture of their dancing is powerful and juicy, brilliant in speed and marvelous in slowness.
Populism has fared well as a political strategy over the last generation — a period, not coincidentally, when living standards for most Americans have risen with frustrating slowness.
The novel has a romantic slowness, unfurling gracefully, little by little, to show how quickly the present gives way to the future, or concedes to the past.
Nineteen at the time, he and two others set fire to the migrant center in a protest against their living conditions and the slowness of Italy's procedures.
She is acclaimed for her uncanny ability to move with extreme slowness, which she has done for years as half of the performing duo Eiko and Koma.
This is the extent of the Tuff: It may be that it's this slowness itself that allowed the flows to cover so much ground in the first place.
The chairman cited the potential turmoil caused by economic slowness in Europe and China, a messy divorce for the United Kingdom and European Union and interminable trade battles.
The night crept on with painful slowness in the crowded washroom, where Mr. Barai and the eight other men were again locked in, this time by the gunmen.
Past EU optimism over dealing with China has turned to frustration over Beijing's slowness to open up its economy and a surge of Chinese takeovers in critical sectors.
But that very slowness contributes to real estate's stability — it is hard to have a "flash crash" when it takes 90 days for a sale to clear escrow.
The egg whisk-style drill came along in 1840, but the primary disadvantage, apart from general clunkiness and slowness, was that it required the use of two hands.
Those mistakes, and its slowness compared with America and Britain to start QE, left it struggling to convince investors that it would act speedily to head off deflation.
But it's saying that because it's starting to -- they're starting to say they see signs, Dan Clifton, of slowness coming in the economy as a result of the dispute.
By being crowdsourced, Urban Dictionary circumvents other dictionaries' general slowness to change and keep pace with the times in a way that makes it an invaluable digital resource.31.
He explained that space exploration is fraught with danger: Radiation, the slowness of propulsion rocket technologies, and other factors are deterrents, thus NASA sends rovers and other exploratory technologies.
You could be so much more productive on webOS (minus, of course, the slowness of the OS itself) than you could be on Android or iOS at the time.
Asked about its slowness to pay expenses in Yangon, Reuters said its global system for reimbursing reporters depends on using a credit card that isn't widely accepted in Myanmar.
I love the slowness of it, the tediousness of it that represents to me long summer days of sitting around, not doing much, and calling it a good day.
France and Ireland on Thursday vented their frustration at the British government's slowness in outlining its Brexit plan, saying that they wanted some clarity in the next few weeks.
The idea occurred to designer and engineer Bryan Boyer during one of those times we all have where we are sitting at home thinking of ways to celebrate slowness.
The slowness has led many Americans to new mobile services, like PayPal's Venmo or Square Cash, which make it possible to pay a friend instantly with just a phone.
She is famous for moving very slowly, and slowness and stillness are still crucial aspects of her wraithlike persona, imparting the sense that she is there and not there.
Mr. Chen said that Priv sales suffered because of general slowness in sales of expensive phones, as well as delays in getting wireless carriers and stores to sell it.
There is a moment of disassociation between the slowness of the bikes and the normal-speed existence of, like, dudes on the sideline eating hotdogs that is totally hilarious.
In Puerto Rico, most of the island's 3.4 million residents have been 10 days without power and residents have complained about the slowness of official U.S. recovery efforts [L2N1M92DZ].
But in the darkness of the video gallery, with my phone in my pocket, Mr. McQueen was offering me, at least in his best works, a rediscovery of slowness.
In the corner, an older Asian woman ate alone, with transfixing slowness; in the middle of the room, a South Asian man and his friends took a large table.
Abrams and Dauman claim Redstone suffers from dementia, impaired cognition, a slowness of mental processing, a loss of memory, apathy, depression and has been manipulated by his daughter, Shari.
I think, as you know, many people feel disappointed with Facebook's behavior and the slowness, given the power that you have, or the power over the market you have.
Some of that was likely share picked up by other smartphone makers, but it also suggests significant slowness in the Chinese economy, particularly at the high end of the market.
The authors of the report said they were "concerned" about the FBI's slowness to involve other agencies and said the FBI had not been "forthcoming" to the Homeland Security Committee.
At a time when big banks are fighting off low interest rates, pressure to keep cutting staff and economic slowness, untold compliance cost increases only tightens margins at banks globally.
"In terms of the tax season, this year was one of the worst with the slowness," said Jeffrey A. Porter, CPA and founder of Porter & Associates in Huntington, West Virginia.
Parkinson's disease is a debilitating disorder in which brain cells progressively die causing patients to experience tremors, rigidity, extreme slowness of movement, impaired balance, and difficulties in swallowing and speaking.
Abrams and Dauman claim Redstone suffers from dementia, impaired cognition, a slowness of mental processing, a loss of memory, apathy, depression, and has been manipulated by his daughter, Shari Redstone.
The slowness of the economic recovery in the Rust Belt combined with a sense that the American dream was becoming unattainable made Trump's "Make America Great Again" message incredibly appealing.
If you are not sure which app is causing the slowness — or if the whole iPhone seems to be crawling — you can try clearing out the device's random access memory.
The slowness of the time was a bit weird though because you artistically you want to move forward and have people hear it while you still relate to the songs.
A new crop of upstarts, mainly based in California and China, is trying to follow Tesla's lead and take advantage of traditional car companies' slowness to develop battery-powered vehicles.
Federal funds are only trickling into Loíza, and housing groups said one reason for the slowness was the small proportion of homes there, perhaps 20 percent, that are officially registered.
His slowness to catch on came as no surprise to Eli Pariser, whose 2011 book, "The Filter Bubble," made the case that social media was serving to worsen national polarization.
The lack of explosive growth at Twitter is due to many factors, all within Mr. Dorsey's control, including a profound slowness on product innovation and a weak effort in advertising.
The C.I.A.'s slowness in shifting its assessment, another official said, was one reason President Obama ordered a full review of "lessons learned" on the operation to influence the election.
She often responds to stress with a kind of paralysis that registers as slowness, even confusion; she can spend hours in stores, incapacitated by the question of what to buy.
The drama of this act, being slow to accrue, is therefore unexpected when it comes, but its apparent violence is quickly undermined by the bulk and slowness of the perpetrator.
The rush to rebuild Notre-Dame, however well-intentioned, risks only underscoring the government's slowness in helping the people whose lives, some say, have been ruined by neoliberalism and globalization.
As for Sugimoto's photographs, the giant and serene images of places like the Pantheon in Rome, the Tower of Pisa, and Florence's Duomo exude a sense of slowness, tranquility, and silence.
For that reason, the high price targets may be more indicative of analysts' slowness or reticence to reduce their target prices, rather than of carefully thought out projections of incredible gains.
You look for the asymmetry, the stiffness and slowness, the motor and non-motor features, and then you give them some form of dopamine and follow them for a few months.
"Given the slowness in the first quarter, it makes it likely that we will see year-over-year declines," said Robert Campbell, head of oil products markets at consultancy Energy Aspects.
Congress has also declined to reallocate money for the Countering Violent Extremism program in its proposed budgets, though it cited the slowness in disbursing funds it appropriated previously as a reason.
I saw "Monsieur Hulot's Holiday" when I was 17, and it just had a tone and an attitude and a slowness that I had never seen in a comedy movie before.
Prince Andrew told the BBC that his friendship Epstein brought him "opportunities," and that his slowness in ditching Epstein as a friend was because of his tendency to be "too honorable."
Some experts said Trump's slowness to fill top jobs wouldn't prevent the federal government from responding to a terrorist threat because the FBI and DHS are staffed with long-serving experts.
The deepest tensions lie around China's slowness to open up its economy, a surge of Chinese takeovers in critical sectors and an impression that Beijing has not stood up for free trade.
"I don't fear any slowness as we work to distribute our workforce now, and I do think we have to build a company that's not entirely dependent on San Francisco," Dorsey said.
Even though it came out six years ago, the genre it inspired is still in its infancy, thanks to a relative slowness for games culture to really pay attention to Dark Souls.
The deepest tensions lie around China's slowness to open up its economy, Chinese takeovers in critical sectors in the EU and an impression that Beijing has not stood up for free trade.
Many Toronto residents liked the plan, at least at first; it tapped into a frustration — common here as in most modern cities — over the messiness and slowness in getting big ideas built.
But here, in RDR2's turn of the century wild west, where words like "frontier" and "freedom" are thrown around with abandon, the melancholy fantasy of slowness and care becomes especially charged.
The slowness of the testing regimen — which, administration officials acknowledged this week, is still not producing enough tests to meet the national demand — was the first, and most sweeping, of many failures.
This slowness comes as a marked contrast to the efficient, action-packed plotting of much prestige television, a genre where success is often measured by the seamless delivery of bingeworthy story lines.
Despite the slowness, the Fed is expected to proceed with at least three rate hikes this year, with several prominent central bank watchers making room for the possibility of a fourth move.
Her pace is as moderate and steady as a ticking clock, whereas Mr. Naharin loves extreme slowness, a resistance to the flow of time that he follows with acceleration and sudden stillness.
If the symbolism isn't obvious enough for a writer of her precision and exacting slowness, consider also the small painting on the sill, of a man walking a snail on a leash.
The scandal sent the company into turmoil, leading to the exit of its then-chief executive, Richard Smith, as slowness to disclose the breach and security practices were challenged by lawmakers and policymakers.
With Venus and the sun traveling arm-in-arm for most of the month, that slowness comes with a nice dose of pleasure — and the risk of lying down for three weeks straight.
American Airlines Group Inc - The company said there has been some slowness in 0-14 day bookings due to the shutdown, but is yet to determine a dollar value from the shutdown's impact.
WHO is struggling to recover a reputation tarnished by its slowness in tackling the Ebola epidemic that killed more than 11,000 people in West Africa from 2014-2015 under Tedros' predecessor, Margaret Chan.
"But something happens over the course of that slowness," she said, noting in particular the final scene of a gradually darkening field of grass, from which the girls erupt in a joyous stampede.
Part of the reason I don't use apps on my watch — in addition to the slowness — is because the interface, even a year in, is often not as intuitive as it should be.
And with murders standing at a historic low, he has preached a plan to create a friendlier, more neighborhood-focused police force, while facing criticism for the slowness of some public safety reforms.
But in its uncompromising use of stillness, slowness and repetition, it distills the endlessness of the dancer's quest, which may, after all, be inexplicable to the public, known only to the dancer herself.
"She stepped back into not participating in fastness but cultivating this slowness," said Susanne Breidenbach, the owner of Galerie m Bochum, in Bochum, Germany, about Ms. Hofer, who died in 2009 at 87.
The album features Mr. Sorey's longstanding piano trio — he is on drum kit and percussion, with the pianist Cory Smythe and the bassist Chris Tordini — making music of furrowed slowness and bodily heave.
This could reportedly be due to a lack of favor with the crown prince over issues including reported slowness to implement a plan to sell shares of the state owned oil company Aramco.
Of course, an amiable laxness with story structure is a hazard of the all-over style — at first, the pace lags — but in a short book like this, a little slowness is not fatal.
But part of the slowness has also been due to difficulty getting paperwork in for many of the nominees, and some announced nominations were not transmitted to the Senate for formal consideration for months.
Interestingly, Apple says that it has attributed feedback about iPhone slowness to the process of updating to a new operating system and some bugs that were evidently present in iOS 11 that caused slowdowns.
The State Department claims that the slowness in hiring new FOIA officials is due to bureaucratic demands and the specialization required of new staffers, who must receive security clearances at the top-secret level.
Indeed, appearing before a parliamentary committee on June 103th, Sir Philip Green, the former boss of BHS, highlighted the store's slowness to embrace the internet as the reason for its recent collapse (see article).
In BattleTech, what some perceive as a grating slowness is to others (myself included) revelatory: Here's a game that puts value on observing, on taking something in, on inhabiting a world with your senses.
"Part of the reason for firing so many top intelligence officials was due to the cover-up and slowness in conveying the full details of what happened to the leadership," he wrote on Twitter.
However, the ISM nonmanufacturing index released Thursday showed the slowness has not spilled over into the services industry, which generates more activity in the U.S. economy and is the primary driver of job growth.
Just as the poster and the trailer give little away, there is a drowsy slowness to the first half-hour of the film as the crew awake from hypersleep to answer a distress call.
On the corporate front, Smiths Group was the worst performer of the FTSE, down about 4 percent pct after slowness at its two biggest businesses John Crane and Smith Medical weighed on revenue growth.
It is unclear whether the vacancies are the result of the Trump administration's overall slowness in hiring or a signal that the president places less importance on science and technology than Mr. Obama did.
"Politically, [Bush] could never recover" from his slowness off the mark, Smith says; his perceived indifference hurt him more in the second term than the perception of illegitimacy had hobbled him in the first.
The sensual swaths of creamy, billowing color are erotic and delicate; the slowness of the paint's movement across the surface offers a distinct counterpoint to the speed and fury we associate with Abstract Expressionism.
While it may not be possible to predict exactly when an external drive will fail, closely monitoring the device for grinding noises or other erratic behavior (like unusual slowness) can offer clues to its health.
PARIS (Reuters) - France and Ireland on Thursday vented their frustration at the British government's slowness in outlining its plan to leave the European Union saying that they wanted some clarity in the next few weeks.
The deepest tensions lie around China's slowness to open up its economy, a surge of Chinese takeovers in critical sectors in the EU and an impression that Beijing has not stood up for free trade.
Though the appeal to racers of a car that in advertising campaigns was likened to a tortoise for its slowness and low fuel consumption is not immediately obvious, competitors said the 2CV had unique characteristics.
"The Mars Room," on the other hand, chafes against the slowness and sameness of time and the oppressiveness of a system that in the name of "justice" dooms our poorest citizens to lives of incarceration.
"One thing I treasure a lot about being in Ojai is a general sense of slowness," said Mr. Kusama, noting that historic oak trees are preserved in Ojai (as they are in many California cities).
You can observe the slowness as the browsers at times simply freeze or the image search results take a long, long time to load, forming one by one rather than as a whole, instantaneous grid.
He dismissed some of the acknowledged reasons for the slowness in the aid response — including long-standing shipping restrictions, infrastructure problems, the power grid being down and the distance between the island and the mainland.
"I think what is going to happen, we are still going to see some slowness in the restaurant industry, probably the first 100 days of his administration, until we start seeing some actual action," he said.
Worse, it partly reflected Mr Erdogan's slowness to recognise the danger of blow-back from his own policies in Syria, where Turkey for too long indulged radical Islamists so long as they opposed the Assad regime.
But all this beauty — the sensuality of the camera movements, the slowness of many of the scenes, the lovely hush that descends over the final act — is more than just a matter of style or virtuosity.
In the case of Equifax, the company's slowness combined with the executives who sold off their stocks prior to the public announcement make the company look like it was minimizing responsibility for a serious consumer problem.
But instead of clumsily limiting how much food you can carry or how often you can cook, it uses the slowness of the animation itself to make the grindy behavior feel grindy and thus discourage it.
Straub-Huillet, as the duo came to be known, practiced a rigorously difficult kind of filmmaking, whose visual austerity, resolute slowness and refusal of conventional narrative were meant to advance a ruthless critique of capitalist aesthetics.
The controversy came as WHO struggles to recover its reputation tarnished by its slowness in tackling the Ebola epidemic that killed more than 11,000 people in West Africa from 2014-2015 under Tedros' predecessor Margaret Chan.
The separation of war from peace that laid the ground for liberal democracy to develop was originally a legal achievement, whereas now it also requires defending sanctuaries of slowness in the news media, market and universities.
"I don't fear any slowness as we work to distribute our workforce now, and I do think we have to build a company that's not entirely dependent on San Francisco," Dorsey said on the call last Thursday.
As we stand hypnotized by the stripes of the fabric, the illusion of slowness is almost convincing, but the presence of a stone nestled in the fabric's curves brings us back to the tension of impending catastrophe.
Due to this slowness, which analysts said could partly be the result of unseasonably cool weather, the retailer is grappling with excess inventories that could force it into running unplanned promotions during the current three-month period.
The scandal sent the company into turmoil, leading to the exit of its then-chief executive, Richard Smith, and multiple congressional hearings as the company's slowness to disclose the breach and security practices were challenged by lawmakers.
In a press release, TR/ST principle Robert Alfons says that in making The Destroyer, he learned a "lesson of slowness" from the agave plants outside his house, which bloom only once every 20 or 363 years.
When I reviewed it last year, the slowness was so immediately annoying that I got on the phone with Apple to double check their performance expectations before making "it's kind of slow" the opening of the review.
The European Union has grown increasingly frustrated by what it sees as the slowness of China to open its economy and by a surge of Chinese takeovers in critical EU sectors, accusing it of distorting local markets.
Foxes in Fiction, another songwriter who knows the values of slowness and space, makes an appearance on the closer "Rave," which, contrary to its name, offers more of the quilted intimacy that drives the other two songs.
It's no coincidence that "Plastic," one of Maria Hassabi's most successful ventures in her mission to place bodies in extreme states of slowness, occurred not in a theater but at the Museum of Modern Art last winter.
Officials at Twitter acknowledged that easy access to fake followers, and the company's slowness in responding to the problem, had devalued the influence accumulated by legitimate users, sowing suspicion around those who quickly attained a broad following.
In the original skit, Bob Elliott (who died earlier this year) explains, with agonizing slowness, that he is in town for the Slow Talkers of America convention, while Ray Goulding, his interviewer, grows nearly apoplectic with impatience.
I don't know if it's tying one hand behind my back or simply working around the corner, but it feels alive — not unlike the tension between the slowness of drawing and quickness of editing in the animation.
She blinks reluctantly, with such vaguely reptilian slowness that it really does seem like she'd opt out of the basic bodily function if she could, in order to better maintain unbroken eye contact with whoever she's speaking to.
The frustration of Peter Saunders, a commission member who was suspended for criticizing the slowness of the panel's work, is certainly understandable, and may yet speed the process, even though we have no idea where things now stand.
The Superintendent of Criminal Investigations, Hideo Nishimura, was tall and even-featured and had probably been handsome in his youth, but the years at the desk showed in his growing corpulence and a certain slowness in breaking inertia.
Partly due to the notorious slowness of Italy's justice system, prosecutors say it is all but impossible to reach a definitive verdict for most financial crimes within the prescribed time frame, which is seldom more than eight years.
A perceived slowness to remove anti-migrant postings by neo-Nazi sympathizers has increased antipathy to Facebook in Germany at a time of raised tensions and outbreaks of violence against record numbers of migrants arriving in the country.
Music played from a laptop—a soft and shining voice sang "Someone to Watch Over Me." The younger girl, Ada, waltzed to the sound of it while the older one, Estella, sighed with impatience at its silky slowness.
Many Italians have criticized their leaders' slowness in taking serious measures to contain the virus, but the government would have been hesitant to impose a total lockdown, which, if prolonged, could easily plunge the country back into recession.
The slowness of the vote count in California didn't help him, either: Election officials there technically have 30 days to count ballots, so we may not know exactly how many delegates each candidate won for quite a while.
The Times - The head of the Financial Conduct Authority was criticised by MPs yesterday for slowness, complacency and methodological failings in its investigation into the scandal of small companies being deliberately mistreated by Royal Bank of Scotland. bit.
This is reflected in the NFL concussion protocol, which goes into effect for any player displaying one of seven symptoms: loss of consciousness, slowness getting up, balance problems, a blank look, disorientation, clutching the head, and visual facial injury.
"In many cases, these SDKs go insufficiently tested and cause serious issues ranging from slowness, crashes and excessive battery consumption to real malicious behavior such as stealing private user data or injecting malware," explains SafeDK co-founder Orly Shoavi.
His colleagues' slowness to react was one of several security lapses in the buildup to the pre-dawn raid, blamed by India on Pakistani militants and a blow to the recent improvement in ties between the nuclear-armed neighbours.
Read MoreChipotle's new plan: Give away more food Abercrombie attributed part of this industry slowness to supply-chain challenges for fast-food giants who must secure large quantities of product that might not be readily available from organic producers.
Although it quickly became clear that a bomb had targeted Pan Am 1033—wreckage showed signs of an explosion and tested positive for PETN and RDX, two key ingredients of the explosive Semtex—the investigation proceeded with frustrating slowness.
He and Justice Stephen Breyer have consistently registered their displeasure with the extreme slowness with which capital punishment is meted out, and this week it seemed that the question would finally come before the court in Moore v Texas.
R. Nicholas Burns, who served as undersecretary of State and ambassador to NATO under Bush and as ambassador to Greece under both Bush and Clinton, says the disparity is largely due to the White House's slowness in submitting nominations.
The problem isn't just with the governor of Oklahoma taking his own family out for dinner; it's his slowness, and that of all the other laggard governors, to create conditions in which those dinners out are not individual choices.
Given that carriers often face slowness and even resistance from local governments when trying to get permission to build towers, the biggest challenge for 5G networks will likely come in the form of city councils rather than technical hurdles.
In many of the countries, as in Russia, this discontent was was a product of the wrenching changes of the 1990s, followed by disappointment with the slowness of improvements in living standards, widespread corruption and the onslaught of globalization.
And the president's slowness to offer them was notable — especially during a week where he was so outspoken about so many things, from staff shakeups to the investigation led by Robert Mueller into Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election.
Marie Collins, the other abuse survivor on the commission, said that she, too, was frustrated by the "slowness with which things are moving," but that the commission's mandate was to work on policy change, and not deal with specific cases.
NUUK, Greenland (Reuters) - Three decades after Greenland exited what is now the European Union, some of its politicians and business leaders say the vast Arctic territory should consider rejoining because of its slowness to diversify the economy away from fish.
But Weidmann, a powerful voice on the European Central Bank's rate-setting Governing Council, argued that a deep economic crisis a decade ago and the slowness of the recovery are the main culprits - not the start of the digital age.
The rise in demand highlights a gradual trend towards more London-based banks looking for a foothold elsewhere in the European Union, with the slowness of Brexit negotiations between Brussels and London leading to a growing nervousness about future trading relations.
Clinton's dizzy spell during a 9/11 memorial on Sunday, exacerbated by the slowness of her campaign in explaining to the press that the cause was pneumonia, means that these sexist, once-fringe speculations are now aired by mainstream media.
Thom Tillis, who put Trump's nominee for US Citizenship and Immigration Services on hold over concerns about the administration's slowness to issue more H-2B visas, decided to lift his hold after DHS made its announcement, his spokesman Daniel Keylin said.
Fed officials at this month's meeting discussed the first-quarter slowness that saw GDP grow less than 1 percent, but they saw the contributing factors, including a slowdown in inflation, as "transitory" and thus unlikely to slow progress through the year.
Facebook's relative slowness in introducing them speaks to the supreme importance of the News Feed in the corporate hierarchy: it's the part of Facebook users see the most, and it's also where the company makes the bulk of its profits.
Even though elected legislatures often move with painful slowness, citizens' ability to control the law's content through locally elected representatives limits the damage a single erratic person can do to society and the economy and over time corrects many egregious errors.
Ms. Mearns, the evening's most arresting personality, as she so often is, had a marvelously simple motif, a slow rise (relevé) of both feet onto point while addressing Mr. Ramasar: She made the slowness feel dramatically charged, thoughtful, even smoldering.
While steel and aluminum tariffs will have a much more dramatic effect on a country like Canada, with some suggesting the slowness of current NAFTA negotiations as a possible reason, China is well aware that it is a target as well.
Then as now, inspired by the pace of her more remote life, she wanted to re-examine the negative connotations that slowness has taken on in a culture that values the technological, the futuristic and the fast above all else.
PMDD, which affects less than 8 percent of women, doesn't feel like the "slowness and sadness of depression," said Chloe Caldwell, a 33-year-old writer who is working on a memoir about PMDD called The Red Zone: A Love Story.
Nearly 9 million people were thrown out of work following the crash 10 years ago, and the slowness of the subsequent recovery, as well as exacerbated income inequality, led to widespread discontent that's manifested itself in a broad populist backlash.
Some of the damage is already priced into the bonds and stocks of retail companies, and the slowness of the shakeout makes it tricky and expensive to make outright bearish wagers on what some analysts are calling a "retail-mageddon".
Europe has also been increasingly frustrated by what it sees as the slowness of China's opening of its economy, a surge of Chinese takeovers in critical EU sectors and U.S. pressure to shun China, and notably Huawei, over espionage fears.
The EU is already weighing a more defensive strategy on China, spurred by Beijing's slowness in opening up its economy, Chinese takeovers in critical sectors, and a feeling in European capitals that Beijing has not stood up for free trade.
His poems contain so few words, repeated so many times, you almost can't help but read them fast, too fast, much too fast, even as their form and content gesture toward a meditative slowness that remains just out of reach.
Dr. Roque has criticized the government's slowness and has paid out of his own pocket for food, lodging and medicine for migrants, as well as bus tickets for those who were out of money once they crossed the border into the United States.
The company's slowness to release its smartphones in the U.S. has forced the company to use its new Xperia X-series smartphones as a stopgap to tide it over until next year's phones can better compete with the best flagships out there.
They're able to convey a sort of naivety and unkemptness—they recorded some of their early works as iPhone voice memos—even when they're totally in control, a feeling that the house of cards might collapse lending a precarity to the sweet slowness.
In that recording, then-Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Victoria Nuland is heard telling former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoff Pyatt "F-ck the EU," because of the European Union's slowness to respond to the political crisis in the country.
Other than his remarkable slowness of speech, the patient's exam was pretty normal until Dr. Gelfand asked the patient to touch his own nose and then to reach out and touch the doctor's finger, which was held out in front of him.
Roosevelt was far from perfect, and various candidates have noted his slowness on civil rights, the folly of his "court-packing" scheme and the horrible wartime detention camps for Japanese-Americans, one of which Mr. Trump is now using for migrant children.
His world is in constant motion, and his refusal to hurry through it — the grace of his camera movements, the sometimes agonizing slowness of his scenes — can be understood as a kind of protest, a reminder of the ethical necessity of paying attention.
Citing the "inconvenience and slowness" of conventional backpacks, which must be removed to locate possessions, Koolhaas solved the problem with a frontpack — a provocatively strange yet stunningly sensible solution imbued with the dual concepts of civility and liberty he explores in his architecture.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgium was hit with a 13-euro ($5,613) daily fine from Europe's top court on Monday for its slowness in rolling out fast-speed broadband in its capital, home to EU institutions such as the European Commission and European Parliament.
Also notably absent was any mention of issues affecting upstate New York, aside from a glancing reference on CNN to the slowness in introducing a $15 minimum wage outside of the city, and a nod on NY1 to her visits to upstate.
Distrustful of the idea of genre, which flattens differences among artists, and of the cloying playlists devised by streaming services ("Best Morning Ever"), Ratliff organizes his chapters around themes that cut across the entire musical continuum: speed, slowness, stillness, loudness, density, virtuosity.
The slowness that frustrates and impedes us when we are trying to drive on the roads outside the village becomes immaterial from our perspective as homeowners; from this angle, it appears that people around here drive not too slowly but too fast.
Thermal power companies account for 80 percent of all industrial emissions of particulate matter, sulfur and nitrous oxides in India, and their slowness in complying with new standards shows the difficulties India faces in cleaning up its air, among the most polluted in the world.
But as Trump's ambitious, amorphous domestic agenda stalls thanks to incompetence and the slowness of Congress, it's important to remember that when it comes to foreign policy—an area where presidents normally have a great deal of freedom—he has already made big waves.
Though the White House later clarified that his denunciation "of course that includes white supremacists, KKK, neo-Nazi and all extremist groups," the slowness of that response—and the fact that it didn't come from Trump personally—made the president seem downright soft on racism.
However, the Financial Conduct Authority has come under fire for slowness in preventing "vulture" advisers from persuading steelworkers to give up their "gold-plated" defined benefit, or final salary pension schemes, which give a fixed income for life, for risky investments with high fees.
And the Flint, Michigan, water crisis, which drew national attention in 2016, also called attention to the EPA's slowness to respond in the earlier days of the crisis, which was the result of a decades-long failure to respond to environmental inequalities in the area.
Asked about an email from May 2017 in which he complained about inaction on "my months-old request that we include the citizenship question," Mr. Ross said he was actually frustrated over the Justice Department's slowness in telling him whether it needed citizenship data.
Philomene's self-portraits catalog the slowness of transition, capturing the beauty in the little details of daily life: brushing their teeth, eating breakfast, and watching films in bed, sometimes using different colored bulbs in their bedroom to illuminate the most ordinary moments into atmospheric scenes.
The idea that young people like me are always on the go, always in transition and always on masks that we might actually desire slowness, want to relish an experience, or enjoy taking a moment to feel comfortable and human instead of curated and optimized.
There are several reasons for this, ranging from the slowness of certain Trump nominees to submit background-check and conflict-of-interest paperwork, to controversial choices like DeVos, who garnered fierce opposition and required the first tie-break vote for a Cabinet nominee in US history.
But the slowness to embrace immersion in the internet as a fact of life is probably due less to any deeply held moral stance against devices than to a more mundane problem: It's really hard to make someone using their phone or their computer look interesting.
You need to make sure you've got backups of all your important stuff, and that you can easily download and reinstall any software you need if necessary, but these small inconveniences aside it's like a spring clean for your system and should stop ever-increasing slowness.
The meeting comes at a time when the EU is weighing a more defensive strategy on China, spurred by China's slowness to open up its economy, Chinese takeovers in critical sectors and a feeling in European capitals that Beijing has not stood up for free trade.
"This is going to become an increasingly difficult problem, not just in the Horn of Africa, but in many other places where there's changing weather patterns and a slowness to adapt to more modern forms of cultural thinking — places like Chad, Nigeria, and Sudan," Mutiga said.
In a statement Friday afternoon, the groups pointed to McSally's votes to increase the debt ceiling; her support for the Export-Import Bank, which some on the right see as corporate welfare; and her slowness in announcing her support for the House's Obamacare repeal effort this spring.
But considering that the works of both Ms. Monk and Mr. Young are deeply interested in the idea of slowness, the pace of the turtle — an animal that has hardly evolved over more than 218 million years of existence, and moves at a glacial speed — is fitting.
The epic slowness of the Medusa episode, survivors drifting for days on an aimless raft, has been replaced by the instant, matter-of-fact presence of the wreck: an almost too perfect illustration of philosopher Paul Virilio's intuition of the accident as the ultimate aim of speed.
Still, there appear to be two more plausible explanations for Trump's sub-Cabinet slowness: First, there's more vetting after some early nominations had to be withdrawn, and second, there are behind-the-scenes clashes about whether Cabinet secretaries can hire subordinates who criticized Trump during the campaign.
There is something in the way Tope uses his lips and eyes as Kevin in the second season of American Vandal; something in the goofy, confident ease with which Gregg moves through a scene as DeMarcus; in the deep-voiced slowness of how Tatro slouches around as Dylan.
Pinterest sets IPO range at $15-17, valuing it at $10.6B vs previous valuation of $12.3B Ingrid Lunden reports that Pinterest plans to make its initial public offering at a price beneath its last valuation — an indication of the tough ad market and Pinterest's slowness in developing revenue products.
The decision would in turn add to the long-simmering frustration with Mr. Obama among Latinos, who blame his administration for carrying out a record number of deportations and remain angry about what they say was his slowness to act on a sweeping revision of the nation's immigration system.
Ankara has been smarting at what it sees as Europe's slowness to condemn a failed coup against Erdogan in 2016, while Germany and other EU countries are concerned about the mass arrests that followed, Turkey's clampdown on press freedom and Erdogan's influence over Turkish diaspora communities in Europe.
Experts on the government said the sense of confusion and dislocation was being amplified by the Trump administration's slowness to advise staff agencies, the unusually high rate of turnover in federal ranks, and the lack of planning for a shutdown that few in the White House expected to happen.
The researchers used a Baby Eating Behavior Questionnaire, asking parents about four different aspects of infant appetite, the baby's responsiveness to milk when it's offered, the baby's enjoyment of food, the baby's satiety responsiveness (that is, how easily the baby fills up), and the baby's slowness in feeding.
After a briefing by FAA leaders on Capitol Hill, House members showed none of the ire some had displayed earlier this week about the Trump administration's slowness to take Boeing's plane out of service, a pace that had the United States lagging behind the rest of the world.
Poland and Hungary, have been trying to pursue closer relations with China in a search for economic opportunities, although the European Union as a whole has grown frustrated by what it sees as the slowness of China to open its economy and a surge of Chinese takeovers in critical EU sectors.
Finally, more external management may be needed... Cracking the code on evening occasions may need external help... A culture change from an era of slowness, entitlement and waste toward speed is hard if most key posts are internal hires... We have five critical questions that need answers: see page 14.
European optimism has turned to frustration over China's slowness to open up its economy, a surge of Chinese takeovers in critical sectors, U.S. pressure to shun China over espionage fears and an impression in Brussels that Beijing has not kept its promise to stand up for free trade and globalization.
Parts of Shikoku were hit with 52 mm (2.1 inches) of rain in one hour on Monday morning, with some parts of central Japan likely to see 500 mm (20 inches) of rain in the 24 hours to Tuesday morning due to the storm's unusual slowness, the meteorological agency added.
European optimism has turned to frustration over China's slowness to open up its economy, a surge of Chinese takeovers in critical sectors, U.S. pressure to shun China over espionage fears and an impression in Brussels that Beijing has not kept its promise to stand up for free trade and globalisation.
Donald Trump was visiting his liberal-leaning hometown for the first time since his inauguration, and anger at him was particularly pronounced because of what many regarded as his slowness in denouncing white supremacy after a far-right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, climaxed in the death of a left-wing protester.
Of course, slowness wouldn't be an issue for the Instant Articles that appear on Facebook, but despite the fact that many people today get their news on Facebook (for better or for worse), publishers still have a responsibility to make sure their site performs well and is usable by a wider audience.
It looks like she'll have to come clean about her "sordid past," and if she's looking for any pointers on that score, she might check in with her sis, who had to run the same gantlet years back with Matthew (and who is meanwhile, with agonizing slowness, piecing together the Marigold puzzle).
The intentional slowness is for the better, not just because it draws a favorable contrast with action-oriented contemporaries, but also because it encourages the savoring of the craft's singular and incredible parlor trick: moments from the lives of the vanished staff can be played, fast-forwarded, and rewound in augmented reality.
But as you can see in the official video, it makes up for relative slowness with incredible cuteness: With apologies to older fans, this 62-inch vehicle carries a maximum weight of 130 lbs — barely enough room for a li'l Luke and li'l Obi-Wan, let alone the droids you're not looking for.
What is certain is that those voters who supported Trump solely because of what they believed to be his pro-Israel policies made an awful lot of compromises — on issues ranging from domestic policy and civil liberties to Trump's fitness to be commander in chief and repeated slowness to condemn anti-Semitism.
But the former mayor has also been criticized for a perceived slowness to sign on to LGBTQ events or address issues affecting LGBTQ people of color — and some wonder whether a Harvard-educated, white, cisgender man will fight for the interests of people in the LGBTQ community who are none of those things.
Normally, in the beginning, the organization will still function with speed, nimbleness, and a risk-acceptance mentality, but as the business grows bigger, complexity starts increasing, and layers begin creeping in, the once-nimble startups inevitably fall into the trap of so called "large organizations" characterized by slowness, rigidity, and risk aversion.
He also cauthioned that Saudi Arabia's slowness to respond tot to very similar attacks, years apart, may have been a bad sign in terms of preparedentwo There hasn't been a discernible increase in cyberattack activity in the region yet, said Nicholas Hayden, global head of threat intelligence for cyber intelligence company Anomali.
In Mr. Trump's case, however, the recalibration is starker because of the extreme nature of the positions he had staked out on issues like China, Russia and the NATO alliance, as well as the Trump campaign's thin ranks of policy advisers and his slowness in assembling a full national security team in the White House.
A colleague of mine, Omaya Sosa Pascual from the Center for Investigative Journalism, wrote in an email that it would be a mistake to call Maria a "natural disaster" because the federal and territorial governments neglected infrastructure projects before the storm and then responded with painful slowness after it hit the island last year.
In the end, he offers a dark but ultimately hopeful "Macbeth," one suited to our own troubled times, in which "the slowness of democracy" is no match for power-hungry strongmen who demand unstinting loyalty from ethically compromised followers, and where the brave must band together to defeat the darker forces that threaten to destroy the social fabric.
The recent riot, slowness in rolling out major infrastructure projects such as a rail link with China and HSBC Holdings' recent shunning of the city for its headquarters, are posing a stiff test for Hong Kong's Beijing-backed leader Leung Chun-ying and have tarnished its reputation as a law-abiding and efficient global business hub.
My children, confined most of the year in a small Brooklyn apartment, love to ransack the apricot trees in their cousins' orchard, as do I. Savoring these pleasures during our first few days in rural Chile, I relish the slowness, the chance to wake to the sound of roosters instead of the wail of an ambulance.
A. Parkinsonism refers to a group of movement abnormalities — such as stiffness, slowness, shuffling of the feet and often tremor — that are classic features of Parkinson's disease but that can also be caused by medications and other disorders with overlapping symptoms, said Dr. Michael S. Okun, a neurologist and the national medical director of the Parkinson's Foundation.
There's a certain amount of player hostility here, the kind of "well, you just need to accept this" that indie games are often dismissed for while blockbuster games like Red Dead Redemption 2 are valorized for them, but perhaps unlike the cowboy game, Castle Wormclot has something to say about the slowness and complicated nature of sublimating oneself beneath a game.
He separated dance from musical accompaniment; in an art otherwise shaped solely by the creators' intentions, he dared to used chance procedures as part of his compositional process; he employed a technical rigor as austere as any other in dance, opening up new possibilities of spinal movement, spatial address and rhythm; and he created startling polarities of slowness and speed.
Basically, it just said that if somebody can show—and it's all team-nominated—if you see somebody on your team cutting through red tape or finding the entrepreneurial way to solve a problem, and not blaming slowness on the size of Microsoft and actually focused on what's smart and fast, nominate them and we'll pick people to earn this reward.
Projects ponder the temporality of indigenous culture, the morphing of bio and animal, the "long durée" of gradual historical alterations, transitions of global cyber culture, slowness of painting and reading, contemplations of the built environment, the "deep time" of ecology and the volatile encroachment of global warming, and the historical resonance of "passage" with contemporary imperatives of persistence and survival under threatening cultural and political conditions.
For a diagnosis to be made, the person must also report at least four additional symptoms from a list that includes significant weight loss or weight gain, an inability to sleep or excessive sleepiness, physical restlessness or slowness ("psychomotor agitation or retardation," in clinical terms), frequent fatigue or energy loss, feelings of worthlessness or excessive guilt, indecision or a diminished ability to concentrate, and recurring thoughts of death or suicide.

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