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• All the essential B vitamins and folic acid from the food are grabbed by the bacteria present in diverticula caused by faecal matter and stagnant food which prevents these vitamins to reach the blood. Natural Remedies for Curing Diverticulosis
• It is patent that dusk found them weary and worn, plodding and wading silently "homewards," shovel on shoulder, across four or five kilos of desolate mud; falling and tripping over stagnant bodies, masses of tangled wire, bricks and jagged wood-work everywhere impeding progress. Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry
• The country also presents a huge contrast with slowing US growth and stagnant growth in Europe. Times, Sunday Times
• The impact from the 2008 financial crisis did not affect us until 2009, but we are still trying to recover, mainly due to the high unemployment and stagnant economy," said Mr. Kagoshima, who wouldn't give total attendance figures. Bay Signs
• The river flows toward the east, and wherever it enters stagnant waters, they are made fresh.
• As there are still no signs of improvement in the stagnant economy, job insecurity continues to aggravate.
• Bushmen in his employ, they came to a deep water-hole, where the precious fluid, though "brak" (alkaline) and stagnant, was still plentiful and drinkable, and within working distance of which the newly-discovered "fields" were located. A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa
• I've burned one of the clogs, the animals are dead but the one goose mopes by the stagnant mare. WHITE LIES
• This sort of artistic dilettantism helps to prevent any single endeavor from becoming stagnant - one imagines the butcher who keeps all of his knives sharp by not overusing any single one.
• But stagnant wages mean income tax receipts are flat at best. The Sun