How To Use Agnation In A Sentence

The highest conception we can form of heaven is the reversal of all the evil of earth, and the completion of its incomplete good: the sinless purity -- the blessed presence of God -- the fulfilment of all desires -- the service which is _blessed_, not toil -- the changelessness which is progress, not stagnation. Expositions of Holy Scripture
Only protracted stagnation of yields brought them to a grudging retreat from farming by decree, and from Lysenko's “agrobiology,” which cast an aura of science over the Stalinist agricultural policy. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
The apprehensions of the Health Department are valid if we go for indiscriminate digging in places where there are chances for water stagnation.
Tilden postulated that improper diet led to stagnation of food in the colon, which then putrefied and formed toxins.
According to Samuelson, Japan pioneered the new stagnation and the parallels are disturbing.

Grasp the concept of nozzle efficiency, isentropic stagnation and their calculation.
More than €1 trillion will be injected into the eurozone to halt an alarming slide into stagnation, it was announced yesterday. Times, Sunday Times
If they come back to us and say there is hardly any money, we would be in stasis (a state of stagnation).
It is the price we pay for fifty years of political and intellectual stagnation, a time when the political dynamic of capitalism was detoured and frozen onto a cold war sidetrack.
Yet this is far from certain and policymakers need to do more to stave off the threat of deflation, stagnation and financial instability. Times, Sunday Times
Despite the rebound, worries persist about the zone's inflexible labour market while economic stagnation in Germany is still a dark cloud hanging over the entire region.
n. - state of being unable to swallow. adj. - having same male forefather; allied; Law, related on father's side; n. such relative. agnation, agnathous adj. - lacking jaws. agnathia, n. agnoiology Xml's Blinklist.com
economic growth of less than 1% per year is considered to be economic stagnation
The synthetic hormones have side effects, especially liver qi stagnation and blood stagnation.
Their putrescence is evident, their stagnation is unhealthy, their fermentation infects people with fever, and etiolates them; their multiplication becomes a plague of Egypt. Les Miserables
We, however, have followed the Twelve Tables in this department of law, and adhered to their principles: and, while we commend the praetors for their sense of equity, we cannot hold that their remedy was adequate; for when the degree of natural relationship was the same, and when the civil title of agnation was conferred by the older law on males and females alike, why should males be allowed to succeed all their agnates, and women (except sisters) be debarred from succeeding any? The Institutes of Justinian
Testaments were vitiated in several ways: nullum, void from the beginning, where there was a defect in the institution of the heir or incapacity in the testator; injustum, not legally executed and hence void; ruptum, by revocation or by the agnation of a posthumous child, either natural or civil; irruptum, where the testator had lost the civil status necessary for testation; destitutum, where the heir defaulted because dead or unwilling, or upon failure of the condition; recissum, as the consequence of a legal attack upon an undutiful will. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
Raw and cold food may injure the spleen and tend to contribute to the stagnation of fluid circulation and the increase in the production of phlegm.
He would bring the same kind of economic stagnation, internal turmoil and discord to our country that other dictators bring to theirs. Times, Sunday Times
Political stability and international insularity also led to socio-political stagnation in certain areas.
Conclusion:The factor of liver-stagnation and spleen-deficiency could enhance the SPF of H22 ascitic tumor cells and promote the proliferation of tumor.
Only in 2000 has a new day dawned for the Osaka branch, as the Kansai economy emerges from stagnation.
A trend of less than a decade doesn't put us on an ineluctable path towards longer-term stagnation. Why the 'squeezed middle' is here to stay
That we are here proves that a solid, akinetic skull doesn't necessarily doom a taxon to morphological stagnation.
Britain's low inflation comes from a mix of subdued cost growth at home and stagnation overseas. Times, Sunday Times
He would bring the same kind of economic stagnation, internal turmoil and discord to our country that other dictators bring to theirs. Times, Sunday Times
Supporters of the plans said that, after decades of stagnation, Skopje would at last get the regeneration it deserves, its heroes commemorated in marble and bronze.
It now expects prices to drop 10% - 15% as a prelude to stagnation.
This suggests that Japan's stagnation will continue absent a drastic shock to the system.
But they also are aware that large tax increases at this time of economic stagnation and rising unemployment would depress economic activity even further.
Maybe the term anchor would be better applied to the right-wingers who stay angry all the time and keep us stuck in the squalid port of stagnation and division, rather than allowing us to move out to the bright and sunny wide open sea of progress and care for others. Texas Liberal
Since stagnation is the antithesis of growth, it is also the antithesis of life.
Instead of using the experiments and expressions of the ancient Savants and thinkers as a basis for our future struggle against ignorance and to try to find out a solution to this mysterious problem, we – lethargical as we have proved to be – raise the hue and cry of faith, unflinching and unwavering faith to their versions and thus are guilty of stagnation in human progress. Archive 2006-08-01
A mere indiscriminating restriction of the birth-rate — an end practically attained in the homely, old-fashioned civilisation of China by female infanticide, involves not only the cessation of distresses but stagnation, and the minor good of a sort of comfort and social stability is won at too great A Modern Utopia
And even an unreal cognation was inferred from real agnation not based on blood: e. g. an adoptive child might claim succession under the edict among cognates if he had omitted to assert his civil law right as an agnate.
Society, like any other organism, would run down, until a stage of stagnation was reached.
In his view of history, other developing countries heeded the "Washington Consensus" to dismantle every possible restraint on markets—and "ended up in economic collapse and long-term stagnation. Emerging Questions on Growth Path
Almost all current writing about Africa depends on a blend of Joseph Conrad and Evelyn Waugh: the brooding, throbbing stagnation of the Congo and the sinister farce of egomaniacal "Afrocentric" politics. African Gothic
While it may work briefly, it destroys the incentive to innovate and ends up costing more and more in stagnation every year that it is implemented. Tax Cuts for the Rich, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Liver qi stagnation will give rise to stuffiness and fullness of the chest, unhappy feelings, hypochondriasis, or even mental depression.
I tend to like a lot of games that are "arty", but I would be wary of games becoming legitimate because with legitimacy comes stagnation and boredom. The Path For Art Games
One cannot overlook the conceptual congruity between the concepts of damp stagnation (defined as pathological body fluids clogging the organs and channels) and peripheral tissue resistance, due to obesity.
I blame much of this stagnation on the label itself, a clunky portmanteau that suggests the collision rather than integration of ‘folk’ and ‘electronic’ music.
And it would lead to the kind of detestation that would include building debris, coffins, sewage, a giant stagnation pound, maybe a million people homeless. CNN Transcript Aug 28, 2005
Stagnation of the, blood was supposed to be a fertile cause of diseases, and such diseases were supposed to arise mostly from "plethora" -- an all-important element in Stahl's therapeutics. A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume IV: Modern Development of the Chemical and Biological Sciences
Periods of lively musical activity were interspersed with periods of stagnation.
And, closely related, is this when productivity shrugs off its postcrisis stagnation and starts to grow? Times, Sunday Times
The turmoil of the past few years by no means mitigates the explosion of prosperity that has taken place since the early 1980s, when President Ronald Reagan enacted promarket reforms to free the economy from the Carter-Nixon stagnation of the 1970s. How Capitalism Will Save Us
Stagnation in home sales is holding back economic recovery.
The political rivalries of various kings and princes, as well as actual wars, the outbreaks of plagues, the incursions and invasions of the Muslims into European countries, along with a certain stagnation within European culture, such as an obsessive and sterile tendency toward speculation, and other, less important factors, heavily influenced Western learning and culture. Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog:
The past five years have seen political stagnation with the government and opposition deadlocked, and the rotting away of the foundation of democracy has begun.
The result is usually scientific and technological stagnation except in the short term.
Apple's reliance on the premium PC market, and the overall market's stagnation, leaves Apple at risk of becoming potbound. Latest from Computerworld
The axial velocity and stagnation point offset of two opposed jets coming from two asymmetric nozzles oppositely located with large separation distance were studied by using hot-wire anemometry (HWA).
Now that nimbyism has gone nationwide there is little hope but economic stagnation. Times, Sunday Times
Promoting digestion to eliminate stagnation belongs to the category of purgation of the eight methods.
Within the integument of one system of exploitation, in other words, was contained a systemic conflict that, if not resolved, would lead to stagnation and decline but, if properly confronted, might lead to a higher synthesis of abundance and equality. The Revenge of Karl Marx
He would bring the same kind of economic stagnation, internal turmoil and discord to our country that other dictators bring to theirs. Times, Sunday Times
After all, it wasn't merely the Orient which failed to develop, it was also the rest of Asia and Africa - and this stagnation was confluent with the colonial expansion of Europe.
The phrase "secular stagnation" fell from their lips in the 1940s, even on the eve of the great postwar boom. Follow the Money
Growth and change are naturally risky, but stagnation is a recipe for failure.
First, the secular, often state-capitalist, modernizing projects of the elites in the region became stalled in corruption, tyranny and cultural stagnation.
Motion is absolute while stagnation is relative.
Liquids and readily liquefiable foods are to be given the non-gastrostomized patient, solids being added when demonstrated that no stagnation above the stricture occurs. Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery
I had to destroy, once and for all, the vicious circle of poverty and economic stagnation.
If ratified, the constitution would open the gates, not to ‘savage liberalism’, but politically correct social ‘rightsism’ with the economic stagnation and unemployment that are its concomitants.
It indicates a deficiency of blood and essence, qi stagnation, and blood stasis.
These united qualities correct acids in the stomach, cleanse the lungs, and open obstructions in the glands caused by coagulated serum; and the saline pungent oil altering the acids in the glands of the brain, by correcting and attenuating its lympha and succus nervosus, produces the same effect; for the lympha and nervous juice are, like other glandulous humours, liable to acidity and stagnation; therefore these aromatics, by exciting their motion and correcting their acidities, render the liquids of the nerves more volatile, and are therefore justly termed cephalics. A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves
And the double-dippers, who see a second round of stagnation or outright recession, are getting bolder, although their ranks are still thin.
Medium term stagnation with product price inflation will be the result. Asher Edelman: The Financial Crisis -- Are We Going Anywhere?
There are signs that the eurozone's second biggest economy is emerging from an extended period of stagnation. Times, Sunday Times
Compared with conventional coupling bolts, the hydraulic radial - fit bolts can effectively prevent unsmooth stagnation.
With scarcity and stagnation cast aside, the economy could finally throw off the shackles of a crude good-for-good bartering system.
Yet this is far from certain and policymakers need to do more to stave off the threat of deflation, stagnation and financial instability. Times, Sunday Times
The stress on agnation in inheritance and family relations and the masculinity of labour in hill farming, tied to the apparent primary social significance of men certainly seem to position women as minor players.
Conflict is often necessary and useful to an organization, although destructive conflict can breed mistrust and stagnation.
This is practically always due to stagnation ectasia, which is invariably associated with either organic or "spasmodic" stricture, existing at the time of observation or at some time prior thereto. Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery
Motion is absolute while stagnation is relative.
Only the mobilization of resources could take the country from a position of stagnation and relative decline vis-a-vis the major industrial countries of the West and East.
This hard rule again the praetors did not leave entirely without correction, though their remedy, which consisted in the admission of such persons, since they were excluded from the rights of agnation, in the rank of cognates, was inadequate. The Institutes of Justinian
William Chambers wrote in his Edinburgh Journal in 1840: "It seems mankind are forever destined to live under some alarming apprehension ... at every interval of three, four, or five years, the community is plunged into the greatest tribulation from the number of bankruptcies and general mercantile stagnation, while ruin stares everyone in the face. Britain's Economic Performance
n. - state of being unable to swallow. adj. - having same male forefather; allied; Law, related on father's side; n. such relative. agnation, agnathous adj. - lacking jaws. agnathia, n. agnoiology Xml's Blinklist.com
Yet this is far from certain and policymakers need to do more to stave off the threat of deflation, stagnation and financial instability. Times, Sunday Times
Poor economic policies led to a long period of stagnation and decline.
Stagnation of food results in superjacent dilatation and esophagitis. Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery
Looking at what is happening now in 'ghanistan and Iraq, one might come to question agnation building. ag Vail Daily - Top Stories
Using a light touch, the therapist helps to clear areas of congestion and stagnation.
He had been appointed to the ruling Politburo as recently as 1978 towards the end of the era of stagnation under Brezhnev.
But it did nothing to change the institutional stagnation which had been the result of consensus decision-making.
Officials at City Hall are convinced that after decades of stagnation, the city's moribund downtown core is on the verge of a breakthrough.
Acupuncture needles are inserted in distal points in the arms and legs along these meridians, harmonizing the flow of energy and releasing the stagnation.
ESA operates a sustainable Space program within budgetary limits as opposed to an American program that IMHO is largely reactionary; over optimistic, over hyped and over budget and, when the steroids run out, prone to long periods of stagnation and infighting. Dennis Wingo - Why Space? Why Now? - NASA Watch
It also reveals Yo La Tengo's understanding of stasis without stagnation.
With the mainstay fishing industry facing stagnation, companies are diversifying.
Conclusion:The factor of liver-stagnation and spleen-deficiency could enhance the SPF of H22 ascitic tumor cells and promote the proliferation of tumor.
Nor did it follow a period of economic and demographic stagnation.
Herself the only daughter of a struggling man of letters, she had during the last year or two taken to writing poems, in an endeavour to find a congenial channel in which to let flow her painfully embayed emotions, whose former limpidity and sparkle seemed departing in the stagnation caused by the routine of a practical household and the gloom of bearing children to a commonplace father. Wessex Tales
One powerful argument attributes this stagnation to the economic structure set in the early 1950s.
Japan in the early 1990's waited too long to act and missed the right opportunity to enact countermeasures, which is why Japan has still not recovered from its long stagnation. Taipei Times
The rebound in the PMI is a rare piece of good news for the U.K. economy, and may signal that a long period of near-stagnation has come to an end. U.K. Manufacturing Bounces Back
United WealthScare cannot authorize electroacupuncture for the stated diagnosis of stagnation of qi. Be Careful What You Wish For
Otherwise, the complacency of the praise songs and the denial of real contesting positions will mean slow stagnation.
The second milestone reached might be the beginning of the end of the wage stagnation afflicting middle-class workers. Times, Sunday Times
Motion is absolute while stagnation is relative.
After a period of long-term stagnation, wages only grew by 1.9 percent and there's no sign that will change. Richard (RJ) Eskow: Job Numbers Hype: It's Bad Politics and Worse Policy
Despite their high-sounding rhetoric, however, initial reforms were halting, and throughout the 1990s Ukraine endured severe stagnation.
Socioeconomic problems and stagnation prevented the society from fulfilling its plans.
On the contrary, the world economy as a whole is marked by slow growth and outright stagnation.
However, action is needed urgently to tackle short-term stagnation and a lack of business confidence, damaged by the ongoing euro zone crisis. U.K. Recession Fears Build
Then comes the rude awakening: food riots, industrial stagnation, a reign of lawless looting and plunder, everything George Wallace ever warned us against - but the Supreme Court, who are all anarchists with names ending in - stein or - farb or Popular Posts Across MetaFilter
The sharp-chinned, goateed 55-year-old is too impatient with black stagnation to mince words, though he softens his more provocative statements with a disarming chuckle.
In the current period of stagnation, arrivisme, and regression, it seems right to think of Lotman's work as testifying to those shoots of modest but tenacious vitality that sometimes - indeed, more often than one might think - grow under the snows of Russian winter and that the West is not always alert or sensitive enough to detect.
But experts remain divided as to whether we are in for a long period of stagnation while average earnings catch up or whether outright falls in house prices are needed to get back to their long-term trend.
Motion is absolute while stagnation is relative.
The agnates, who were an important class of kinsmen, in the early Roman law were cognates connected through males either by blood relationship or by the artificial tie of agnation. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
Recent financial stagnation has displaced Japanese men from their societal pedestals, because persistent unemployment clashes with traditional notions of machoism and submissive women. Jane Buckingham: The Trend Triple Threat
In 2007, France elected a president in Nicolas Sarkozy who promised "rupture" with dirigiste stagnation. A Silver Lining in Europe
Poor economic policies led to a long period of stagnation and decline.
This leads to a sharp decline in the level of economic activity, and the economy enters a period of stagnation.
Paul Krugman uses the term "pain caucus" to describe the growing chorus of well-placed and well-respected people who believe that we have to cut spending even in the face of continued economic stagnation and growing immiseration. Jonathan Weiler: America's Elites Further Separate Themselves From Everyone Else
This isn't simply a matter of building better-looking Web sites or creating dinkier apps, although both are important (another area of chronic stagnation and resistance to change: newspaper design); it is the reimagining of content through technology. Journerdism | Will Sullivan's Stompin' ground for journalists and nerds.
Everything you advocate is designed solely to perpetuate wage stagnation. Think Progress » Sarah Palin calls global warming studies ‘snake oil science.’
Stagnation in home sales is holding back economic recovery.
Britain's economy has emerged, phoenixlike, from the ashes of stagnation and the threatened triple-dip recession. Times, Sunday Times
Or to put it the other way, stasis and stagnation are signposts along the path towards cessation and death.
At times like these, market veterans, especially insiders in the big brokerage firms, can prosper; indeed, the thing these people really fear is stagnation.
He is a famous painter whose success has brought creative stagnation.
All three countries enjoyed rapid economic growth during the dictators' first eight to 10 years on the job before lapsing into lengthy economic stagnation after their leaders decided to stick around for the long haul.
Fever, heat, and stagnation may damage the fluids, which congeal and thicken and do not flow.
Constipation and fullness of the lower abdomen are due to the stagnation of dampness disturbing the large intestine.
This would weaken incentives and lead to periods of torpor and stagnation.
The result is stagnation; with endemically low economic growth, and excessive government.
If carried far enough, the process of redistribution results in economic stagnation and economic retrogression.
The independence wars' impact has generally been seen as a depressant on economic activity, resulting in a general stagnation that lasted until at least mid-century, with a few exceptions.
It was also found that the interaction of the exuberance of internal heat toxin and fu-organ turbidness stagnation enlarged the risk of the onset of dementia after basal ganglia infarction.
For without progress there will be stagnation and decay.
Those only were called who were bound in agnation to the deceased through males; hence females beyond sisters were not called. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
And the bust is a period of stagnation and destruction.
Invariably, however, technology reaches a point of diminishing returns, inaugurating a period of stagnation and crisis.
The stability of the past, at times bordering on immobilism and stagnation, has been replaced by mobility and change, by economic revival and political uncertainty.
But hey, if you want shitty-quality video, the stagnation of VOIP, and extremely-laggy surgery-at-a-distance just because “a packet is a packet is a packet”, then by all means get the government to ban stuff like DPI. DPI is GOOD for you: ‘Um – crap’
Don't overdo it though - the flipside of stress is boredom, stagnation and low self-esteem.
A dark gray complexion indicates prolonged stagnation of blood such as a consumptive disease with blood deficiency accompanied by menoplania or amenia.
A combination of needles and moxibustion can be used where there is both stagnation / stasis and vacuity.
Hurricanes, droughts, floods, volcanic eruptions are all Mother Nature's way of stirring up the pot to prevent stagnation and putrefaction. THE BOOK OF THE DIE
Stagnation of heat in the liver and gall bladder affects the stomach, causing retching.
Inheritance is based partly on agnation, and agnatic kin are theoretically all potential heirs to each other's livestock and other wealth.
Herself the only daughter of a struggling man of letters, she had during the last year or two taken to writing poems, in an endeavour to find a congenial channel in which to let flow her painfully embayed emotions, whose former limpidity and sparkle seemed departing in the stagnation caused by the routine of a practical household and the gloom of bearing children to a commonplace father. Wessex Tales
This in its turn will lead to a decrease in the rate of economic growth, stagnation and shrinking of markets.
Although taxonomic stability may be a desideratum, in reality taxonomic stability is a manifestation of scientific stagnation.
Uses: to disperse liver stagnation, to calm stomach, to transform phlegm, treat globus hystericus (sensation of a lump in the throat), lack of appetite.
Hurricanes, droughts, floods, volcanic eruptions are all Mother Nature's way of stirring up the pot to prevent stagnation and putrefaction. THE BOOK OF THE DIE
It is the _accidia_ of the cloister; a trace of sourness, of ferment engendered by the enforced stagnation of youthful energies, a vague, obscure melancholy. A Prince of Bohemia
When will the laws of heredity, and the by-laws of agnation result in an altruism, where human bloodshed is an unknown horror? At the Mercy of Tiberius
Objective : To investigate of non - linear dynamics characteristics of electroencephalogram ( EEG ) with the patients of stagnation ofQi syndrome.
Yet the people targeted by them still live with economic stagnation, political repression, malnutrition and ecological crisis.
He likens the current shake-out to the period of stagnation in the 1980s when US companies were forced to sit down and make choices.
Of course, the outflow of capital to foreign countries, stagnation of investment, and the steady decline of the stock market will become more serious.
Without such an increase, the economy might tip into a deflationary spiral such as saddled Japan with decades of stagnation. Times, Sunday Times
Today's heightened political acrimony is but a foretaste of the "grim Malthusian" politics ahead, with politicians increasingly trying to redistribute the fruits of a stagnant economy, loosing even more forces of stagnation. Technology = Salvation
New water keeps the pond fresh and free from stagnation.
Each of these is essentially ancestor-worship, the ancestors being reckoned back through family groups, of higher and higher order, sometimes with strict reference to the principle of agnation, as in old Rome; and, as in the latter, it is intimately bound up with the whole organisation of the State. Evolution of Theology: an Anthropological Study
Stagnation in home sales is holding back economic recovery.
There was a period of comparative stagnation in the nineties and a brief interruption following the financial panic in 1907.
In England, they never had a depression as severe as ours, but it lasted a whole lot longer; between the two world wars, Great Britain alternated between stagnation and decline.
Roman law distinguished between agnation (a relation through a male person) and cognation (a relation through either a male or a female person).
Wage stagnation is the result of political changes that have made it possible for there to be huge concentrations of income at the very top, and rising health care costs. Matthew Yglesias » The Wage Stagnation Debate
Barley sprout is used in treating food stagnation and strengthening the stomach.
The result is dulness of sight, a stagnation of the vital circulations, and a general deliquium and sloughing off of all the intellectual faculties. Walden
Notice, too, how the repetitive, undynamic rhyme scheme contributes to the overall stagnation and inertia. Times, Sunday Times
The world economy endured nearly two decades of turbulence, including the stagflationary (a double dose of stagnation plus inflation) 1970s. Times, Sunday Times
Simic and Rheubottom's conclusions about the nature of women's power and authority draws on widespread prejudices in the literature that privilege the ideals of agnation over the lived reality of women in households.
During the French Revolution there was obviously a period of stagnation in the formation of collections.
The alternative - settling for economic, cultural and demographic stagnation - is too grim to consider.
Now that nimbyism has gone nationwide there is little hope but economic stagnation. Times, Sunday Times
This plant requires a light foil, well tilled, and never de - luged with water; for this reafon fpots are preferred which arc Hoping, beeaufe this pofition preierves the indigo plant from the ftagnation of the rain, which might deftroy it, and from inundations, that might cover it with a prejudicial flime. An historical, geographical, commercial, and philosophical view of the United States of America, and of the European settlements in America and the West-Indies
In his hands, spatial autonomy becomes equivalent to cultural stagnation.
Decades of economic stagnation and the fact that most resources are funneled through the state restrict people's opportunities to achieve social and economic mobility.
Highlighting the gloomy mood in financial markets, Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan warned over the weekend that the global economy faces long-term stagnation. China Sees Net Forex Outflow in October

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