| 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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| 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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| It is a competitive world and the laggards will have to rue their complacency. |
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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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| Among the laggards, General Electric fell 2 percent, as did Merck. |
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| Fiddling around with the 16 mid-sized laggards who failed, or marginally passed, the summer stress tests is not enough. |
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| It rewards those companies that are already making a difference and it takes the laggards, who simply can't be bothered, and pulls them in. |
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| At the same time, as bad things happen it will be come increasingly obvious how ERM-enabled firms cope and recover better than the laggards. |
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| We believe that we are laggards as far as helping Canadians and Quebecers, including consumers, to enter the digital era. |
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| On the other hand, the largest Member States, such as Germany, France and Italy, came out as clear laggards with respect to structural reforms. |
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| This type is conspicuously found among laggards in the electric machinery industry, once considered the most competitive industry. |
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| They have been laggards in educating their employees about the importance of customer privacy and how to protect it. |
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| Performance in this category varies widely, from the leaders at 76 per cent to the laggards at 6 per cent. |
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| The Commission can produce these in order to urge the laggards to take a good example from those Member States who are perhaps more advanced. |
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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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| 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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| 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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| Maybe if I fire a couple of laggards that'll light a fire under them! |
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| That's leaving laggards such as Fujitsu and Toshiba further behind. |
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| Embarrassment and force of public opinion will soon force the laggards into step with the leaders. |
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| The codes are designed right now for the lowest common denominator-the laggards, if you will. |
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| This model divided potential adopters into five categories: innovators, early adopters, early majority, late majority and laggards. |
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| The pattern of scoring is quite similar in Angola, Azerbaijan and Venezuela, with the leaders just over or approaching the 40 per cent mark, followed by a steady decline to the laggards. |
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| Canadians want to be leaders not laggards. |
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| If environmental leaders take this initiative, it would force the laggards to disclose the same information, thereby allowing investors to accurately assess all material risks in a timely manner. |
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| If the KP does not start to get tough with laggards and delinquents, there will be no incentive for anyone to take the Kimberley Process seriously. |
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| On the other side, companies that advocate pure voluntarism have yet to explain how one ever reaches sufficient scale to make a difference or how to pull laggards along. |
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| Again, in the manufacturing sector, productivity gains are well dispersed across the regions, but the trade-off is still quite strong, and a number of economies became productivity laggards in this sector. |
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| Community regional policy is no longer a political side-show offering sops to the laggards, Mr Schmidhuber told the meeting, it now plays a central role in determining the overall structure of the future Community. |
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| I think it's very definitely an option for Canada, and I think one of the reasons why it's an appropriate step is that there will be laggards within the food industry. |
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| By implication, this means that laggards may be missing the opportunities attached to the innovation concerned and that their overcautious approach also translates into costly maintenance of legacy systems. |
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| In Dubai, public agencies compete to impress the country's go-ahead sheikh, who praises the best and humiliates the laggards. But shame and beauty contests are still weak forces in the public sector. |
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| So the benchmark indices are moving sidewise but last year's leaders are now laggards and the stocks that are going up are those that many thought you did not need. |
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| Lastly, since some Member States are clear laggards when disposing of electrical waste, it is vital that there is ample provision of information about the new rules. |
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