How To Use Moribund In A Sentence
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And that culture was nowhere near moribund, but being kept alive, and by ordinary people as much as ‘elites’.
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He said he had to go on a listening tour of voters because'very safe Labour wards have become moribund.
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A poetaster's aesthetic feathers had been ruffled, but his humanity, anemic and amoral, had remained unstirred, somnolent, and moribund.
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Founded in 1915 in Georgia, the "modern" Ku Klux Klan, an anti-Negro, anti-Catholic, anti-Semitic organization, reached its peak of power in the U.S. in the mid-twenties; is now moribund.
Albert Lutuli - Nobel Lecture
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I'm not a marketing whiz, but now that the Alliance brand has been defeated and moribund for 3 years, it's over as a political brand.
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Hans Nielsen Hauge was a reformer in nineteenth-century Norway when the state church there was getting pretty moribund.
Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway
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The patient was moribund by the time the doctor arrived.
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Without loans the economy is moribund.
Times, Sunday Times
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Most of the moribund patients recovered due to his treatment.
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A poetaster's aesthetic feathers had been ruffled, but his humanity, anemic and amoral, had remained unstirred, somnolent, and moribund.
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The society, a professional organization of doctors and a few scientists, was self-contained and moribund, an ossifying Manhattan social club.
The Emperor of All Maladies
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The region's heavy industry is still inefficient and moribund.
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Downtown Morelia, moribund by night in days of yore, is seeing a revitalization by some new entrants.
The colonial cities
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A life in nature as an alternative to our increasingly corrupt and moribund social selves.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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Corpse retrieval is yet another sign of the complete moribundity of the MMO genre.
Enlightened Penalties
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a moribund patient
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Neither cinema's guileful cultural artifacts nor the somnambulistic, moribund jargon that unpacks them know anything about that.
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But from the tone of the discussion so far, the candidates must think that to perform major surgery on this moribund patient, first we have to anaesthetize the voters.
Tim Frasca: Surgery, Please - A Look At Edwards On Health Care
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Rates had been exceptionally low for a protracted period as the US central bank sought to reignite a very moribund domestic and international economy.
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He said he had to go on a listening tour of voters because'very safe Labour wards have become moribund.
Times, Sunday Times
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In patrilineal descent groups, he argued, the individual family and private property were prominent and the communal principle already moribund.
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One moribund duckling was found near loose dogs and presumably was killed by them.
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The moribund Post Office Advisory Board was replaced.
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That such a defensive-looking company can't achieve a flotation is a bad sign for Europe's moribund IPO markets.
Spain's Lottery IPO Has No Lucky Numbers
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Unless the cat is already moribund, the veterinarian will need to lightly sedate or anesthetize the patient.
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Just as the Jeremiahs incorrectly predicted blogging would be the death knell of professional journalists everywhere--heaven forbid--the same fatidic crew probably think the advent of the blogging phone means photojournalism is now also a moribund profession.
Flint's Sony Ericsson Releases 'Blogging Phone'
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I say "reinvigoration" because substantive due care has long been considered a moribund doctrine, but this new duty of good faith could have legs.
Business, Law, Economics & Society
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It was an idea far ahead of its time, born of a desire not merely to "civilize" a seemingly moribund Muslim world, but to unite East and West, the Baghdad Railway could have fostered not just greater economic integration for European benefit, but an inter-cultural renaissance across Eurasia as well evoking heyday of the great Muslim Empires -- Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal -- that last united these lands into one broad cultural ecumene.
Mark Levine: Sonic Peacemakers Go Where the Rest of Us Fear to Tread
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Couple that with the diminished character, intellectual moribundity, and congenital dishonesty of the majority of Congress's members, past and present, and it is easy to grasp why America is in the state it is in. revolt against any health care legislation passed by Congress.
The Rule of Reason
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But for many potential buyers, the moribund nature of the stock market today makes it unattractive.
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Reading btweeen his lines it also looks as though Osborne is moribund; an inside Tory source is quoted as describing him as a 'prat' - hardly the credentials for Tory Chancellor, even though that would follow NuLab's tradition for the past decade or so.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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His programme: reform the moribund economy but hold onto power at all costs.
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An initially effective drive to improve numeracy and literacy in primary schools has become moribund.
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People thought we were strange to take an interest in an out-of-the-way, if not moribund, part of the capital market.
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He cannot liberate his people from the moribund cycle of violence and suffering.
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Celente is the head of Trends Research Institute and is well known as the forecaster who throws cold water in the faces of those who fantasize about the moribund economy.
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Linda Moulton on Coast to Coast about Gerald Celente Forecasts Past and Future
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Ideally patients will be enrolled before they are moribund and on ‘death's door’.
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For he was a Northerner born and bred; and what should he be doing hallooing for the Stars and Bars among those grey and moribund veterans?
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Last week Manchester United relaunched its official website in an attempt to kick-start its hitherto moribund internet operation.
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He brought superb organizational skills, financial muscle and a solidly conservative orientation to what had been a moribund party.
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The region's heavy industry is still inefficient and moribund.
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Indeed, many see the need for large-scale hydrogen production as a way to jumpstart the moribund nuclear industry.
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The first thing you see on entering the galleries is a small and thoroughly exquisite work from about 1500 by Domenico Morone, depicting the Madonna and Child, who are seated beneath a lunette depicting the moribund Christ.
The Man of Sorrows Motif Over Time
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Due to an acid residue from paper manufacturing many older books and journals are already brown and crumbling; the books are moribund!
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Gangster films and series are generally the most uninspired, unimaginative and moribund visual art around.
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I'm not a marketing whiz, but now that the Alliance brand has been defeated and moribund for 3 years, it's over as a political brand.
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Perhaps not in this election, and despite the moribundity of the political system, voters may eventually be able to bring some life to Japanese democracy.
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The galvanising effect on the hitherto moribund Mavericks was immediate.
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In 988 the principalities of Kievan Rus '(the predecessor of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus) accepted Christianity from the Byzantine Greeks, rather than from the Romans — a matter of no small import, given that Byzantium was moribund, its religion having suffocated the intellectual traditions of the Hellenes.
Russia Is Finished
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To draw a Saussurian analogy of my own, writing is parole, praxis, not a moribund, non-negotiable langue.
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In his review, he reveals a gift for decaying and moribund figures of speech.
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In the moribund patient deepening coma are the usual preludes to death.
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An initially effective drive to improve numeracy and literacy in primary schools has become moribund.
Times, Sunday Times
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Will the album be able to breathe new life into a moribund music industry?
Times, Sunday Times
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The municipality carried a crippling burden of 13 months of unpaid salaries and was cumbered by a devastating one-year-long strike action, rendering the local authority moribund.
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Each of the two protagonists is more or less moribund - one convalescing after a near fatal collapse; the other laid low by deep vein thrombosis.
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If you wish to live in a backward, moribund, intolerant inegalitarian society please feel free to choose one from the many available…
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Shares in both companies fell about 3 percent as investors feared intense competition could lure away buyers of e-books, the fastest-growing segment in a moribund bookselling industry.
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They do not necessarily reinvigorate politics when politics is moribund.
Times, Sunday Times
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Team Anna began waging a far greater battle -- the passing of the anti-corruption Jan Lokpal Bill, which, moribund in parliament for decades, has been carefully redrafted into a 29 page document by the India Against Corruption IAC organization.
Rio Helmi: Anna Hazare: Savior or Destroyer of Democracy?
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His programme: reform the moribund economy but hold onto power at all costs.
Times, Sunday Times
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Will the album be able to breathe new life into a moribund music industry?
Times, Sunday Times
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Twenty pages on Bishop Myriel -- that rather piebald angel who makes the way impossible for any successor by his fantastic and indecent "apostolicism" in living; who tells, _not_ like St. Athanasius, an allowable equivocation to save his valuable self, but a downright lie to save a worthless rascal; and who admits defeat in argument by the stale sophisms of a moribund _conventionnel_ -- might have been tolerable.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
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Branch networks are moribund expensive luxuries, yet customers like branches.
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The Board is trying to stimulate the moribund economy.
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Excavation has disproved the old idea that the mid-Saxon economy was moribund and that no significant steps towards urbanism were taken before the reign of Alfred the Great.
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I shrink with bone-chilling horror at the deathly shroud of moribund prose that dangles limply from the author's limblike arms, as he threatens ominously to envelopingly enwrap me in it ... or it in me.
Archive 2006-08-01
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The credit crisis put paid to that and in the past two years AIM has become moribund.
Times, Sunday Times
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Officials at City Hall are convinced that after decades of stagnation, the city's moribund downtown core is on the verge of a breakthrough.
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Or are these visions of the coming order consigned to replay moribund nightmares of the past.
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We have bought into instant gratification for so long the concept of patience and forbearance is moribund.
Poll: Obama approval rating dips under 60 percent
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Due to concerns about potential adverse vasoconstrictive effects on regional vascular beds, such as the liver and the kidney, norepinephrine traditionally had either not been used or had been reserved as a last resort in a moribund patient, with predictably poor results.
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Christopher Petit's 1979 debut Radio On ... freeze-dries England on the dusk of the punk era without seeming to try very hard (and does it at a time when British cinema was all but completely moribund)," writes Michael Atkinson at IFC News.
GreenCine Daily: DVDs, 4/3.
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Gangster films and series are generally the most uninspired, unimaginative and moribund visual art around.
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It's not hard to see why; on a superstar-laden $180 million team with a moribund offense, he's the humble, aw-shucks rookie making the minimum and providing the unexpected boost, giving the fans somebody new to root for.
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There is now a sort of feeling of impending, um, moribundity.
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Linda Moulton Howe with George Noory discuss Gerald Celente's past and future forecasts: Celente is the head of Trends Research Institute and is well known as the forecaster who throws cold water in the faces of those who fantasize about the moribund economy.
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Linda Moulton on Coast to Coast about Gerald Celente Forecasts Past and Future
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Chancellor Norman Lamont is being urged to boost the moribund housing market in his autumn statement on November 12.
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The credit crisis put paid to that and in the past two years AIM has become moribund.
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They also hope independence will help to revive their moribund economy by ending the limbo that has kept foreign investment away.
Times, Sunday Times
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The preceptorial system, soon moribund, had become nominal.
Medical Education in America
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But three years on, his much-touted finance and commerce ministers have been unable to spark zest into the moribund economy.
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Conventional wisdom holds that the North is looking for aid and investment to help feed its starving population and revive its moribund economy.
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Undern grew ghostlier than ever, seeming, as the shots rang out startlingly loud in the quiet, like a moribund creature electrified by blows.
Gone to Earth
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Despite the momentum toward recovery, the baht is fragile and the stock market moribund.
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Jordan has revitalized one of the league's most moribund franchises.
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And dont forget the fall elections nothing buoys public approval ratings, distracts the booboisie from a moribund economy, and puts steam in my slacks like a little carpet-bombing.
Boing Boing: October 6, 2002 - October 12, 2002 Archives
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His career revived, Layne leads what had been a moribund Lions franchise to three league championships in eight years.
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I think I know what Bill and Ian Fraser are trying to do: they clearly felt that they needed to invigorate something that they must have seen as moribund.
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They are being invested to resucitate MY COUNTRY, which was left ravaged and moribund by you-know-who.
Rubio calls Crist's Senate pick 'disappointing'
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A once desultory and commercially moribund neighborhood is revived.
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They do not necessarily reinvigorate politics when politics is moribund.
Times, Sunday Times
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In a largely moribund game, he represents vibrancy, rising like a white knight as his club were plunged into the potential darkness of administration.
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She'd been lying for several hours before discovery, and, although conscious on admission to casualty, she was clearly moribund.
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The victims die in some cases in but a few seconds, while in other cases the onset of moribundity may be delayed by hours or days.
The Saliva Tree
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This battle of the belligerent blokes bids well for the bold and reform minded Libs., and hence the moribund healt care rerform of the previous 1993-94 era can bet on a better outcome with new methods in resuscitation.
Liberal groups step up efforts against Democrat Ben Nelson
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The Bush administration hopes that it will help resuscitate the moribund U.S. nuclear power industry and expand the use of this "nonpolluting" source of energy, a pillar of the Bush team's energy policy.
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They do not necessarily reinvigorate politics when politics is moribund.
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Not bad for a leisure business in a moribund economy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hagey subsequently was presented with two civic awards for drawing San Diegans to the then-moribund Gaslamp Quarter.
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Other than his outings to sporting events, things were moribund.
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In view of the foregoing, it is clear that the new government will have to place fresh orders for weaponry so that the programme to modernise the armed forces does not become moribund.
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An innovative programme could revitalise the moribund, but the financial services industry is too set in their ways to do any lateral or creative thinking.
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One can understand how Pepi achieved cult status in post-Franco Madrid, but it would have been difficult to predict that this ribald production would launch the career that would save the moribund Spanish film industry.
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Without loans the economy is moribund.
Times, Sunday Times
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Unless the cat is already moribund, the veterinarian will need to lightly sedate or anesthetize the patient.
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One patient was moribund at presentation and died 4 days later.
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By comparison, it makes even the moribund environmental market look relatively prosperous.
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Despite the economic and social laws of Moribundian society, a clear class structure does exist, and it is a society in which characters concretise their class stereotypes at all levels and at all times.
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Even if a judge believes that a brief offers a perfect expression of the law, copying it creates the perception that the jurist is sloppy, lazy, or intellectually moribund.
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The moribund mergers and acquisitions market has come alive, with everyone from old-line manufacturers to New Economy software houses taking advantage of the runup in the value of their shares to buy up other businesses.
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Foreign reserves are desperately low, the bond market moribund.
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Native languages continued to move toward moribundity.
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Many investment managers feel stock markets have been moribund for so long that the odds favour a gradual improvement over the next few years.
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To use the paradigm of your own planet, Commander Kellogg, the death of Julius Caesar did not prevent the imperialization of an already politically moribund Roman Republic.
Ishmael
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Not bad for a leisure business in a moribund economy.
Times, Sunday Times
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A moribund economy and the decline of traditionally unionized industries eroded the base of the labor movement.
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A big battleship would help the moribund community around Hunters Point, which has a battleship pier and plans for 1,600 homes.
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Still, the Academy needs to do something to defibrillate its moribund Oscars ceremony.
Get Real, Oscar: Eddie Murphy's Not the Cure for What Ails You
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The current moribundity of the Party has its roots in the past years, not in recent months.
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They do not necessarily reinvigorate politics when politics is moribund.
Times, Sunday Times
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At the same time, the central government was engaged in privatizing moribund state firms and assets, which supplemented the treasury's revenue intake.
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And while the Taj is a mausoleum, moribund except for the swarms of tourists and touts, the Golden Temple pulses with the energy of a thriving living community - the spiritual and temporal centre of the Sikh faith.
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After years of moribundity, the Utah County Democrats have fielded a respectable slate of respectable candidates for the second election in a row - many from the ranks of the GOP.
Deseretnews.com - Top Stories
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To me, I'd say all the bitchiness is a sign that things aren't nearly so moribund within the genre as some have claimed.
Archive 2008-06-01
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Sports revealed there is madness behind Ohno's moribundity.
Yahoo! Sports - Top News
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The unpopulated landscape remains inexorably negative: unfertile ground for a moribund enthusiasm.
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They also hope independence will help to revive their moribund economy by ending the limbo that has kept foreign investment away.
Times, Sunday Times
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We took the child out and as I looked at it I realised the kid was moribund.
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A previous study showed that death followed the selected moribund symptoms by 1 day or less.
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The symptoms were scored as follows: grade 1; tail weakness or tail paralysis, grade 2; hind leg paraparesis, grade 3; hind leg paralysis, grade 4; complete paralysis, moribund state or death.
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I found him in a high fever, his eyes deep sunken, with a moribund and yellowish face, his tongue dry and parched, and the whole body much wasted and lean, the voice low as of a man very near death: and I found his thigh much inflamed, suppurating, and ulcerated, discharging a greenish and very offensive sanies.
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Republicans dominate the Ohio legislature thanks to a heavily gerrymandered crazy quilt of rigged districts, and to a moribund Ohio Democratic party.
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The first target of Everett's satire is the writing of fiction itself, which is portrayed implicitly as an enterprise saturated in pretension and moribund assumptions.
October 2009
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Two decades later it was the State Quarter program that jumpstarted a moribund market.
Aging Baby Boomers and Rare Gold Coin Prices : Coin Collecting News
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The question of how to revitalize Britain's economically moribund regions has bedevilled successive governments for at least three decades.
How Big Government Killed Britain's Regions
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Zeus on Olympus now weighs the Roman empire in his scales, -- and finds the fate is death, and no help for it: there are to be thirteen decades of moribundity, and then
The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19
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Hagey subsequently was presented with two civic awards for drawing San Diegans to the then-moribund Gaslamp Quarter.
