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Sentence Examples Generally, economic growth is stagnant at best, and at worst it goes into contraction. The result is that the waterbody tends to become stagnant, leading to pollution. Like many progressive Keynesians, I supported growth policies to remedy a stagnant wage economy. They have become stagnant bog holes and an incredible eyesore and health risk. Julia Blake plays Claire, a refined and elegant beauty whiling away the rest of her life in a stagnant marriage to John. We know that when eyes are shut, oxygen can reach the cornea from the iris solely by way of the stagnant aqueous humor. Urine may become stagnant leading to chronic ascending bacterial urinary tract infections. It is to be distinguished from his dread of a stagnant and spiritless despotism. If mainstream comedy is to move away from its stagnant form, I feel it will find salvation in more absurd comedy. I hope the rest of the country moves on, refusing to join you in your stagnant backwater of 18th century hokum. Visitors commented on the 'foul and fatal airs and waters' and 'evil-smelling stagnant waters' which caused ill-health and an early grave. The massage of muscle movement will stimulate the flow of stagnant blood in your leg veins. A teapot that gets filled but never pours out will go stagnant and minging. The jungle paths turned to morasses, and the paddy fields were great wastes of stagnant water with a stale mousy smell. The smell of stagnant, rotting waters hung so thickly that the air was nearly unbreathable. With an unceremonious toss, he deposited a black crust of bread and a beaker of stagnant water into the cage. It just makes that particular beer I cherished seem tepid, stagnant and undrinkable. In the Green, not the smell of cut grass and flowers, but rather the stink of traffic smog and semi stagnant water in the pond. Prices are stagnant in my area, properties remain unsold for several months. A sunken garden to the west of the house was choked with untrimmed plants, its sunken pool brown and stagnant. Show More Sentences Bike ridership has gone up ninefold, while car ridership has become stagnant. Although the Sri Lankan tea export volume has increased, tea prices have remained more or less stagnant for a long time. If your water has been stagnant for some time, treat it before you drink it. The river flows toward the east, and wherever it enters stagnant waters, they are made fresh. According to experts, stagnant water may become breeding grounds for mosquitoes. Meat is sold from stalls on the side of stagnant puddles and children play in groups around the dirty water. The bottom waters of these lagoons were probably stagnant and provided an environment hostile to life. Wade had a large clay pot with a big chip in the top in which he kept stagnant water, weeds, and any bugs that intrigued him. The took a compass bearing for the direction of the croaking and eventually reached stagnant, muddy pools, thick with a scum of dead insects. The hot weather has been the main contributor to the rise in cases of wildlife being killed by botulism, which thrives in stagnant, warm water. It looks like fun, but the water here is stagnant and contaminated with raw sewage. The wells were not drained and the ditches were filled with stagnant water. Although soybean is injured in flooded fields, it can thrive in stagnant, oxygen-deficient water in the glasshouse. The streets were still a bit damp and there were stagnant pools of water at many places. Algae, that green stuff in stagnant water, produces huge quantities of oxygen. Her matted hair billowed out a bit as the stagnant unimaginably foul smelling air started to flow past them. This passage was constructed primarily to solve the problem of strong odours from stagnant water and sewage in the inner harbour. During the floods, Mr Rushworth saw his cellar fill with ten feet of stagnant flood water. The abyss was stagnant, a body of water under massive pressure, barely warmer than freezing and utterly without light. But what would be the consequences of a housing market that is stagnant, possibly for years? Show More Sentences It is a chance to bring major foreign investment to one of Europe's most economically stagnant regions. The body politic is stagnant, its membership mediocre and undeservedly self-satisfied. As there are still no signs of improvement in the stagnant economy, job insecurity continues to aggravate. Ryder pointed to the lack of strong and cohesive global rules on company behaviour as a major factor in the stagnant world economy. However, pay for similar work in the US has been relatively stagnant if not declining. The chief concern of union officials is to secure the income of their apparatus in the face of a stagnant or declining dues base. Rising home values have propped up a stagnant economy and blunted criticisms of otherwise disastrous economic policies. The remaining 82 percent said capital spending would remain stagnant or decline. They feel that the current Women's Union is a stagnant organisation, both socially and politically. Does the Minister consider the claims that productivity in the sector is stagnant or declining are accurate? Over the past few years, the economy has boomed while wages have remained stagnant. For a start, real wages have been stagnant or declined for the majority of workers. Profits remained similarly depressed, with performance in the European market stagnant. Note that blight is not restricted to stagnant or declining regions and cities. Without adequate oxygen, your pool could become stagnant, harboring odoriferous anaerobic bacteria. Stables, outhouses, hencoops, pigsties, stagnant ponds, and slaughterhouses vied with each other for olfactory attention. The reader meets the protagonist, a family man living in an idyllic farmhouse with a comfortable home life that has become stagnant. The increase in home ownership over the last few years followed two decades of stagnant or falling rates of home ownership. Furthermore, their aggressive church planting protected them from becoming stagnant. Remember to mix grass clippings with other garden wastes in the compost heap to avoid them becoming slimy, stagnant and smelly. Show More Sentences A lot can go wrong with a building that's empty and not closely looked after, especially within the stagnant water of an air-conditioning tower. And in the absence of contrarian perspectives, the faith tends to become inbred and stagnant. On Oct. 26, 1948, a temperature inversion laid a blanket of cold, stagnant air over Donora, Pa., a tiny mill town on the Monongahela River. The train of merchant's wagons continued slowly into the gate, their wooden axles creaking loudly in the hot stagnant air. Throughout the 1990s workers' pay remained largely stagnant while company executives profited handsomely. The three-year drop in mortgage rates has also offset the stagnant job market's effect on mortgage delinquencies. Togo's stagnant, underdeveloped economy is largely dependent on agricultural exports. Low taxes, low services and entrenched business power means a stagnant future. This is the wrong way round, since the US is growing much more quickly than the stagnant eurozone. Factory production fell 3.9 percent as domestic consumption remained stagnant and exports declined. And if property prices are stagnant or falling, we cannot rely on the wealth in our homes to bale us out. Does this help explain why tight money and stagnant median income have come together? In my youth, this was a murky place filled with stands of tule reeds, bubbling pools of stagnant water and little streams that ran between islands of bushes and reeds. Health care organizations are looking for ways to end profitless growth, a situation in which beds are full and resources appear to be fully used but profits remain stagnant. Most importantly, the biggest issue facing the country is our stubborn, stagnant unemployment. Despite the thickness of this relatively stagnant water mass of more than 1000 m, the water age is only slightly more than a decade, indicating large-scale advective exchange. In stagnant economies, urbanisation levels do not increase much. The stagnant pool of green water at the bottom of the ditch rises slightly. Of course, declining or stagnant wage growth started well before this president took office. As you work through the collection, the scenes become more stagnant, more still, as desolation takes over. Show More Sentences The book opens in the stagnant, wet spring of 1950 at Hart House, a lonesome English manse a mile away from the nearest road. In a stagnant job market this is a significant pressure for recent graduates, and many factor insufficient wages and prolonged deferment into the decision to return to school. The unusually hot, stagnant air has made it the worst pollution season ever in the San Joaquin Valley. The region is economically and politically stagnant, with endemic poverty. It was stuffy and confined, muggy and stagnant, thick and oppressive. Mosquito bites may be avoided by removing stagnant sources of water or by using protective clothing, repellants, larvicides, and, in cases of epidemics, insecticides. The mouse pad is probably the most stagnant of all computer accessories. Like the river from which it takes its name, the series may occasionally seem picturesque but closer inspection reveals malodorous and stagnant depths. Consider, for example, whether it makes sense to plow ever-greater sums into college educations if wages are stagnant? But this kind of politicking is exactly the kind of thing that turns successful companies into stagnant ones. These suggest that voters in core Europe may finally be willing to accept rollbacks in the cherished welfare state to get the region's stagnant economy rolling again. She wants to reform the stagnant economy, loosen union power and bring down taxes in a power-sharing Cabinet with the business-friendly FDP party. Plants can't breathe if their roots are immersed in stagnant water. The government says the tax cuts are needed to spur a stagnant economy. The seasons are come to a stagnant stop, the trees blench and wither, the wagons role in the mica ruts with slithering harplike thuds. Glacifluvial sediment may be found in ice-contact environments or proglacial environments beyond an apron of stagnant ice. The pieces of stagnant water may be divided into jeels which contain water throughout the year, and chaongre which dry up in the cold season. It lost one House seat due to stagnant population growth in the 2010 Census. The state lost a House seat at the end of the 112th Congress due to stagnant population growth as recorded by the 2010 United States Census. During the period of slavery, the populations of Europe and the Americas grew exponentially, while the population of Africa remained stagnant. Show More Sentences In spite of the generally stagnant nature of this front, this theatre would prove decisive. Moving glacier ice can sometimes separate from stagnant ice above, forming a bergschrund. The weather of 1944 combined with a poor situation for the Allies led to a stagnant situation on the western front. Behind the estuary was a stagnant pond called the Pool or Poole, so named since the medieval era. During the Middle Ages, astronomy was mostly stagnant in medieval Europe, at least until the 13th century. In the 19th century the empire was internally stagnant and externally threatened by western powers. Conversely, outside of the Ithaca area, population growth in much of Western New York is nearly stagnant. From 1 CE to 1000 CE, the Indian population and economy were stagnant with no growth for a thousand years. Child volunteers and socialist fiscal policy enabled stagnant existence for many of these railways. Common in some Paleozoic and Mesozoic strata, black shales were deposited in anoxic, reducing environments, such as in stagnant water columns. Cory Gardner and others hammered on stagnant wages for the middle class. Stagnant water can be prevented from developing by stopping water collecting in places such as gutters and flat roofs by removing debris such as leaves and twigs. In a sign of how stagnant the Dodgers offense has become, manager Joe Torre turned back the clock Saturday and had Nomar Garciaparra bat leadoff. Rheologically optimized flow channels avoid excessive residence time and stagnant zones in the system. But in the penultimate chapters, Tommy bonds with Berit, the girl behind a cafe counter, stagnant in her deadly marriage. I'VE heard dogs can get sick from blue green algae by swimming in stagnant water. Wages are stagnant and middle-class household incomes continue to decline. The Utricularia vulgaris or bladder-wort, a yellow pea-like flower, has blossomed in stagnant pools. Also useful for introduction in clearweed grown stagnant waters for malaria vector control. This outwash surface slopes toward the Manistee River, which presumably carried the meltwater front this stagnant ice stillstand. Show More Sentences The body count will only emerge when the long process of pumping out the stagnant floodwater is finished in about 90 days. Wages are stagnant, and the real value of UK pay packets has fallen by seven per cent since the 2008 crash. Stagnant international and domestic steel markets have thrown South Africa's steel and ferroalloy industries into disarray. The United Kingdom was able to recover more quickly than other countries that were equally as developed, because their economic growth had been stagnant for some time. Without an investment of human, fiscal and other resources, internationalization efforts will likely remain stagnant or may even decline, the recent report noted. The population that today explodes on a stagnant society with a catastrophic echo, is the geist of the times that shock our great nation into a new sense of her grandeur. The predominance of non-local lithologies suggest that the till is englacial or supraglacial, most likely deposited from stagnant or retreating ice. Terms of rent for land were becoming subject to economic market forces rather than to the previous stagnant system of custom and feudal obligation. For example, enclosed bodies of water, such as fjords or the Black Sea, have shallow sills at their entrances, causing water to be stagnant there for a long time. Due to the primitive and relatively stagnant state of agriculture throughout this period, the ratio of rural to urban population remained at a fixed equilibrium. The population was stagnant, and the city limits were narrow. But the wider view at the time was that the wider Welsh music scene was stagnant, as the more popular musicians from Wales were from earlier eras. Single-family home prices tumbled 18.5 percent in December from the previous year, and real estate agents say that nonforeclosure sales are still stagnant. Although now extremely wealthy, Saudi Arabia's economy was near stagnant. While Reich and Horney later expanded on these ideas in their writings, theoretical advances on the concept remained stagnant until the works of Heinz Kohut and Otto Kernberg. Prix fixes, restaurateurs say, need to be more innovative than ever, showcasing local ingredients and the kitchen's strengths while never growing stagnant. C violaceum is a ubiquitous, saprophytic, anaerobic, gram-negative bacillus that lives in soil and stagnant bodies of water in tropical and subtropical climates. Barely detectable, stagnant blood flow within a venous distension is indicative of aneurysm, whereas complete absence of flow may suggest a cyst, pseudocyst, or neoplasm. Kobayashi and Inaba argue that the Japanese economy has shifted to a stagnant equilibrium because of an external diseconomy, which they call the complexity externality. No matter the association, the powerful emotional responses that guns elicit are largely responsible for the stagnant and vitriolic nature of the current gun control debate. Examples from Classical Literature The most loathsome reptile, rolling in the slush and slime of its stagnant pool, would not bemean itself thus. Built on a very different model is the bladderwort, busy in stagnant ponds near the sea coast from Nova Scotia to Texas. Her conversion was an event that broke the lethargy of their stagnant life. The breath of primroses and violets mingled with the dankness of stagnant water. Both Daphnia and Cyclops are bred in stagnant water in which there should be a good stock of weeds. Daphnia must be reared in a stagnant pond, the fresh-water shrimp in running water, with plenty of weeds. Most of these were actually dry, but many of them contained a dirty pool of stagnant water. Oh, how I love ye two, that yet can make me lively hate, in a world which elsewise only merits stagnant scorn! The blood was stagnant in the veins of the people and their feet were shod with lead. Action will never be stagnant while there are such things as gold and power. It was like opening a door out of a beautiful garden into a stagnant ditch. The peculiar moving hush and tepidly stagnant air of a sick-room penetrated even through the panels. If the sea were not lashed up and oxygenated, we should have a stagnant pest-hole like an old rotten fishpond all round the world. Cramp, roup, and some other diseases, more frequently arise from stagnant wet in the soil than from any other cause. Astsia hmatdes, which is probably a form of the Euglena, is found in stagnant pools, which it renders red. Nor can their stagnant condition be ascribed to local or climatical causes. The stalks are then bundled and retted by steeping in pools of stagnant water. His way now led towards the river-side regions, and a cleansing whiff of tar was to be detected in the stagnant autumn air. The cellar had two feet of stagnant water in it, and was bottomed with six inches of soft mud. This stagnant water produces a disease called the guinea worm. Show More Sentences In hollows, or places where the air is stagnant, it may still be toxic. Without him life would be stagnant, energy and virtue purposeless. Behind them was a broad ring of stagnant water covered with duckweed. It was no longer stagnant now, but seething and eddying like a whirlpool. Not with such fervor prays the torpid recluse, looking forward to the cold, sunless, stagnant calm of a day that is to be like innumerable yesterdays. It was bowl-shaped and at the bottom, some hundreds of yards from where we lay, were pools of green-scummed, stagnant water, fringed with bullrushes. Her glory is departed, and with her crumbling grandeur of wharves and palaces about her she sits among her stagnant lagoons, forlorn and beggared, forgotten of the world. I saw its still, stagnant waters, a quarter of a mile away from me in the hollow, separated into pools and ponds by twining reeds and rushes, and little knolls of earth. The meeting decided to place Guppy fish in the places with stagnant water. The few hours that had passed since he saw the Abbey tower stretched out in his memory until they outgrew whole months of the stagnant life of the cloister. Find more words! 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