Translation of "Schleppenden tempo" in English

Apple has come under fire for its sluggish pace.

The third, and main conclusion concerns the imbalance between the speed of the crisis and the slowness of response times.

The problem lies, on the one hand, in the slowness with which directives are transposed into national law and, on the other, in shortcomings in their implementation.

A number of more general comments were made on issues such as the title of the opinion, inclusion of the three strands of "active inclusion", the translation of economic growth into more and better jobs, better use of existing social protection mechanisms, the need for EU-wide social policies, the slow pace of reforms and the need for urgent joint action, the risk that minimum income schemes could weaken the incentive to work, and the role of the Committee in putting forward proposals leading to social progress.

Known to Israelis mostly from traffic reports on the radio, the Sakharov Gardens consist of a series of flowerbeds at a junction near the entrance to Jerusalem, where the cars often move at an excruciatingly sluggish pace.

The New Adoreds for example is totally into sluggish speed; playing time is more than seven minutes and simply fucking great!

In a letter to Herrmann he praised the recording as “very good, convincing and expressive”, without hesitating to criticize the slow tempo in the first movement.

However, the Committee regrets that faster progress has not been made on some measures.

The Court of Auditors has yet again adversely commented on the weaknesses of controls, on numerous irregularities and the slow rate of recovery of monies due to the European Union.

In environmental issues, and I do not know if this is true of other areas, such slow progress can have irreversible effects.

We are obviously concerned at the slow rate at which the humanitarian aid and spare parts are being supplied, and we hope that the Iraqi Government will give its full support to the application of this programme and establish favourable conditions for its implementation.

However, the slow pace with which the railway industry works is not only frustrating but also acts as a very effective brake on the kind of radical action that is required to galvanise railways in many of our Member States.

Having said that, we are wary of the slow pace of this reconstruction, since it could jeopardise the stability necessary for the development of the country.

The slow pace and piecemeal approach to alignment in these two countries is not consistent with their political aspirations for rapid accession to the EU.

The most obvious shortcoming is the pace of progess towards the addition of a social dimension.

We are obviously concerned at the slow rate at which the humanitarian aid and spare parts are being supplied, and we hope that the Iraqi Government will give its full support to the application of this programme and establish favourable conditions for its implementation.

In environmental issues, and I do not know if this is true of other areas, such slow progress can have irreversible effects.

The preamble of the treaty explains the motivation by the "catastrophic consequences" of a use of nuclear weapons, by the risk of their sheer existence, by the suffering of the hibakusha (the surviving victims of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki) and the victims of nuclear tests, by "the slow pace of nuclear disarmament" and by "the continued reliance on nuclear weapons in military and security concepts" like deterrence.

The sluggish pace of the latter suggests that the ambitious targets – such as preventing global temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial era levels – are unlikely to be met.