How To Use Stagnant In A Sentence
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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
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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
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The country also presents a huge contrast with slowing US growth and stagnant growth in Europe.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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The river flows toward the east, and wherever it enters stagnant waters, they are made fresh.
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As there are still no signs of improvement in the stagnant economy, job insecurity continues to aggravate.
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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
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I've burned one of the clogs, the animals are dead but the one goose mopes by the stagnant mare.
WHITE LIES
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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.
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But stagnant wages mean income tax receipts are flat at best.
The Sun
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Ryder pointed to the lack of strong and cohesive global rules on company behaviour as a major factor in the stagnant world economy.
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I never really enjoyed Pink Floyd, and Orange Can has successfully reminded me why: the dull, stagnant jams sound indifferent and unambitious.
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As worms are bred in a stagnant pool, so are evil thoughts in idleness.
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Sometimes a phosphorescent gleam played over the stagnant pond, into which the terapin plunged heavily at their approach; while on the neighbouring banks the frogs of all degrees croaked forth their inharmonious chant, making the scene more hideous, and certainly adding greatly to the sense of gloom which it inspired in those who penetrated it.
The Partisan: A Tale of the Revolution. By the Author of "The Yemassee," "Guy Rivers," &c. In Two Volumes. Vol. I
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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.
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This stagnant Japan myth put about as a consequence of some macroeconomic data and a rise in unemployment to levels that the United States would love, is journalistic puff-puff.
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Note that blight is not restricted to stagnant or declining regions and cities.
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Leading while feeling stagnant and sluggish are sure ways to self-destruct in ministry.
Christianity Today
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A single strand of simple, unsophisticated smoke smoldered silently upward; spiraling simperingly into a sunlit bed of stagnant smog.
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The train of merchant's wagons continued slowly into the gate, their wooden axles creaking loudly in the hot stagnant air.
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The Humboldt County Board of Supervisors is poised tomorrow to deliver yet another slap to the cadre of railroad dreamers who have been hoping against hope, year after year, to restore freight service along the 10-years-dead Northwestern Pacific Railroad line and so develop the similarly stagnant Humboldt Bay into some kind of entrepot in Pacific Rim international trade.
North Coast Journal Comments
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The took a compass bearing for the direction of the croaking and eventually reached stagnant, muddy pools, thick with a scum of dead insects.
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However, pay for similar work in the US has been relatively stagnant if not declining.
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In the unwholesome pool, or ever – stagnant lake. antistrophe 2
Sophocles : Philoctetes
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It's not everyday you see the grand thespian as a scheming womanizer who will stop short at nothing, save ‘a bit of crackling,’ to revive his stagnant career.
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It was hideously overpriced in a stagnant housing market.
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The housing market has been largely stagnant over the past few months.
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The smell of stagnant, rotting waters hung so thickly that the air was nearly unbreathable.
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A neighbor of mine, a toddler, had diarrhea due to giardia infection, and one of the antecedent events was the swallowing of several gulps of stagnant water squeezed from a bath toy in an outdoor wading pool.
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Official data shows that lending is still fairly stagnant, although mortgage lending has picked up from record lows last year.
Times, Sunday Times
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Although soybean is injured in flooded fields, it can thrive in stagnant, oxygen-deficient water in the glasshouse.
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More affluent households were driving spending higher, while many continued to feel squeezed by rising prices and stagnant incomes.
Times, Sunday Times
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The remaining 82 percent said capital spending would remain stagnant or decline.
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The economy is stagnant and will hardly grow next year.
Times, Sunday Times
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Many pastors desire awakening but feel overwhelmed with conflict and stagnant growth in the church.
Christianity Today
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Despite the thickness of this relatively stagnant water mass of more than 1000 m, the water age (time since last contact with the atmosphere) is only slightly more than a decade, indicating large-scale advective exchange.
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It was stuffy and confined, muggy and stagnant, thick and oppressive.
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It is to be distinguished from his dread of a stagnant and spiritless despotism.
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Now, miserable black dwellings, a black canal, and sick black towers of chimneys; now, a trim garden, where the flowers were bright and fair; now, a wilderness of hideous altars all a-blaze; now, the water meadows with their fairy rings; now, the mangy patch of unlet building ground outside the stagnant town, with the larger ring where the
The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
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Official data shows that lending is still fairly stagnant, although mortgage lending has picked up from record lows last year.
Times, Sunday Times
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I like that they are showing progression rather than having the way they relate to each remain stagnant – shucks, just like real life.
'Bones' recap: Pops knows best (and now, about Club Jiggle) | EW.com
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Prices are stagnant in my area, properties remain unsold for several months.
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But, if the economy remains stagnant, look for liberals to begin pushing for a second stimulus, despite any scary numbers from CBO and the administration's Office of Management and Budget.
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Other export earners, such as coffee and timber, remained stagnant, while imports continued to rise.
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The stagnant economy and persistently high inflation is likely to last for another two years, according to the bank.
Times, Sunday Times
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Take a step, the longest road also be nothing difficult; remain stagnant, then a short way are hard to reach.
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Besides increasing the risk of cardiovascular disease, a high-fat diet also increases the risk of cancer, obesity, and diverticulitis, which is an inflammation of the colon due to pockets of stagnant digested matter.
The Best Alternative Medicine
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China is slowing down sharply and the eurozone is still stagnant.
Times, Sunday Times
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If the second book took place in the same world but dealt with a different hero/heroine, with March and Jax hanging around in the background being stagnantly blissful, it would be an SFR.
Ann Aguirre » Blog Archive » A question for the ages
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Nor was the destruction delayed by placing choleraic excreta in or upon earth, dry or moist, or mixed with stagnant water.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884
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Similarly, lungs were a selective advantage to fish living in stagnant waters, enabling them to breathe air, long before the descendants of these fish walked on land; in modern teleost fishes the lung has lost its function as a breathing organ, and has been transformed into a hydrostatic organ, the swim bladder.
A Mystery for the Ages
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Due to low investment, industrial output has remained stagnant.
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Packer says that the Senate is "gelatinous" and "stagnant" and he spent time in the Senate and found that "everything happens there except deliberation.
TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads
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More affluent households were driving spending higher, while many continued to feel squeezed by rising prices and stagnant incomes.
Times, Sunday Times
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The air was stagnant with the heavy, sour smell of beer.
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Caplan is saying that people who live in stagnant economies do not learn from failure.
Growth and Economic Literacy, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Too bad the valley did not match the view-bare trees on either side of the road stretched riblike limbs toward them; a clammy, spectral mist rose from stagnant pools of water as they passed through the Beguilers 'swamp.
The Robin And The Kestrel
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THOUSANDS are losing their jobs, growth is stagnant and the euro is on its last legs.
The Sun
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It looks like fun, but the water here is stagnant and contaminated with raw sewage.
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The smell of stagnant, rotting waters hung so thickly that the air was nearly unbreathable.
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As worms are bred in a stagnant pool, so are evil thoughts in idleness.
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Cook Inlet is level to rolling, with areas of ground moraine and stagnant ice topography, drumlin fields, eskers, and outwash plains.
Coastal Trough Humid Tayga Province (Bailey)
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Bike ridership has gone up ninefold, while car ridership has become stagnant.
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To the innocent, who had never seen it before, it seemed discorded and inconsequent, bizarre and paradoxical like the frantic darting of the weightless bugs which run on the surface of stagnant pools.
Caps gameday special: Best hockey stories ever
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The Japanese economy has been called "stagnant," but according to a review by Robert Locke, this is because the Japanese aren't aiming for growth.
Ellen Brown: Cheney Was Right About One Thing: Deficits Don't Matter
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The surge reflects higher loan defaults, as rising joblessness and stagnant income growth take their toll.
Times, Sunday Times
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I also love that the person who complains about “endless quibbling” is the one who argues with my characterization of a statistically insignificant increase of less than 7000 miles traveled from a base of 2,900,000 as stagnant or no growth. jack lecou says:
Matthew Yglesias » Mass Transit is As American as Apple Pie
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Mosquito bites may be avoided by removing stagnant sources of water or by using protective clothing, repellants, larvicides, and, in cases of epidemics, insecticides.
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By the middle of the afternoon they began to feel hungry, so the father proposed their going to a bazar which was in sight; but between them and the bazar was a channel of stagnant water, very deep, and with its surface covered by a coating of weeds.
Folklore of the Santal Parganas
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The air in summer is reckoned unwholesome by the exhalations arising from stagnant water in the neighbourhood of the city, which stands in the midst of a fertile plain, low and marshy: yet these marshes have been considerably drained, and the air is much meliorated.
Travels through France and Italy
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Rising costs and stagnant wages mean 44 per cent have ditched the dos.
The Sun
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The economy was stagnant in the second quarter and could well shrink between now and the end of the year.
Times, Sunday Times
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The housing market has been largely stagnant over the past few months.
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Extreme amounts of rain caused by a stagnant, persistent weather pattern have drenched much of the region over the past couple of weeks, said hydrologist Jim Noel of the Ohio River Forecast Center in Wilmington.
Levee blasted along Mississippi River to spare Cairo, Ill.
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This comes amid growing signs that the economy is recovering after four years of stagnant growth, boosting consumer confidence.
Times, Sunday Times
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Wages are stagnant and energy bills have rocketed.
The Sun
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But stagnant wages mean income tax receipts are flat at best.
The Sun
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Statistics over five or ten years will provide definite evidence of increasing, stagnant or declining percapita incomes.
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They make pretty stagnant fare as a code of practice for society.
Times, Sunday Times
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They make pretty stagnant fare as a code of practice for society.
Times, Sunday Times
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My hopes were quickly dashed, though, as the play's first act played out stagnantly.
Chris Kompanek: On the Culture Front: Pavement Reunion, Of Montreal, Me, Myself, and I, The Little Foxes, and the Moth
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Low taxes, low services and entrenched business power means a stagnant future.
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So our little beloved side-stream of science fiction is doomed to remerge into the stagnant main waters of literature, one hopes, to sweeten them.
INTERVIEW: John C. Wright
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Lately, most measures of inflation have been hitting the 1 percent range, and the Fed chairman left little doubt that he expects the rate to remain stagnant for some time.
Bernanke: Fed prepared to act to boost economy
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We walked for an hour and a half or so, well beyond the limits of the town to the point where the road and pavement came to an undignified end by a stony beach and a hollow of stagnant water.
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Take a step, the longest road also be nothing difficult; remain stagnant, then a short way are hard to reach.Sentencedict
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The Phasis itself is the most stagnant of all rivers, and runs the smoothest; all the fruits which spring there are unwholesome, feeble and imperfect growth, owing to the redundance of water, and on this account they do not ripen, for much vapor from the waters overspreads the country.
On Airs, Waters, And Places
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The wells were not drained and the ditches were filled with stagnant water.
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A major goal of the new format is to boost the stagnant photo industry.
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The stagnant economy and persistently high inflation is likely to last for another two years, according to the bank.
Times, Sunday Times
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The greatest scoundrel is always captain of the band of patrols; they are the offscouring of all things, the refuse, the fag end, the ears and tails of slavery; the scales and fins of fish, the tooth and tongues of serpents; they are the very fool's cap of baboons, the echo of parrots, the wallet and satchel of pole-cats, the scum of stagnant pools, the exuvial, the worn out skins of slaveholders; they dress in their old clothes;
Narrative of the sufferings of Lewis Clarke : during a captivity of more than twenty-five years, among the Algerines of Kentucky, one of the so called Christian states of America, by dictated
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The adjacent low-lying ground, for half a mile in breadth, is a stagnant river, with melancholy trees for islands in it, and a surface punctured all over, all day long, with falling rain.
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Mass movements are often a factor in the awakening and renovation of stagnant societies.
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Face the stagnant long - term development that pounds them to still devote oneself to an enterprise.
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The stagnant economy and persistently high inflation is likely to last for another two years, according to the bank.
Times, Sunday Times
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This passage was constructed primarily to solve the problem of strong odours from stagnant water and sewage in the inner harbour.
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I've reconnected with people from the past, spent "bonus" time with family, and established myself in an environment that has, personally, been stagnantly unprogressive since my arrival in my "adult" years.
D-Day
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Thankfully, the rain had stopped but puddles of water were still standing stagnantly before the cafe's door.
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Global prices of fishmeal, fish oil and canned fish are at an all-time low and markets are stagnant due to oversupply, mostly from South Africa but also from Thailand, Chile and Peru.
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Overall, prices went up but a lot of areas of the country are still stagnant.
The Sun
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According to experts, stagnant water may become breeding grounds for mosquitoes.
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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.
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No sooner had we left that beautiful _cuvette_ than we came to a magnificent flat open valley extending from E.S.E. to W.N.W. In its northern part, where a pool of stagnant water was to be found, were innumerable _burity_ palms.
Across Unknown South America
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It is depressing to see a great company retreating at a time when the economy is stagnant.
Times, Sunday Times
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This comes amid growing signs that the economy is recovering after four years of stagnant growth, boosting consumer confidence.
Times, Sunday Times
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It just makes that particular beer I cherished seem tepid, stagnant and undrinkable.
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The committee is trying to balance the twin threats of rising inflation and a stagnant economy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Take a step, the longest road also be nothing difficult; remain stagnant, then a short way are hard to reach.
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As worms are bred in a stagnant pool, so are evil thoughts in idleness.
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Bled by war and terrorism, beset by a lingering financial crisis and stubbornly high unemployment, facing stagnant wages and growing inequality, saddled with obsolete infrastructure and massive public debt, the United States today seems far removed from the confident "hyperpower" of a decade ago.
Will Marshall: To Fix Our Country, We Need to Fix Our Politics First
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I also love that the person who complains about “endless quibbling” is the one who argues with my characterization of a statistically insignificant increase of less than 7000 miles traveled from a base of 2,900,000 as stagnant or no growth.
Matthew Yglesias » Mass Transit is As American as Apple Pie
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The bacteria in the stagnant bowel consume dietary vitamin B 12.
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We know that when eyes are shut, oxygen can reach the cornea from the iris solely by way of the stagnant aqueous humor.
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And even you should be able to figure out that an increase of under 7,000 miles traveled on over 2,900,000 miles traveled is statistically insignificant, and is why the FHWA said there was a 0% increase, and why I used the word “stagnant.”
Matthew Yglesias » Mass Transit is As American as Apple Pie
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Take a step, the longest road also be nothing difficult; remain stagnant, then a short way are hard to reach.
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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.
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Skullcap will probably not be very effective for the individual with weak digestion and internal coldness while asafoetida will probably not be effective for the individual with a toxic, stagnant liver.
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Stagnant warm water is a breeding ground for the legionella bacterium, which causes a potentially fatal lung infection.
The Sun
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AMANDA PALMER:: One half of the Dresden Dolls, Amanda is on the road knocking up stagnant levels of artistic performance at every stop.
Action-Figure
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You can use the upper parts of the stations as subways to cross busy road junctions, but the stink of stagnant water as you walk by the turnstiles into the Metro itself is enough to send you quickly above ground again.
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It moves actively through the stagnant water in its passage to the surface, aerifying it, and at the same time doing faithfully its work as scavenger by consuming vegetable germs and putrefying matter.
Four Months in a Sneak-Box
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Maybe inside lakes or in stagnant water or something, but not (in the ocean) that we could recall ...
The Lovecraft News Network
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If mainstream comedy is to move away from its stagnant form, I feel it will find salvation in more absurd comedy.
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Bacteria in stagnant bowel consume dietery vitamin B 12.
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We are always adapting and changing; we are dynamic, not stagnant beings.
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THOUSANDS are losing their jobs, growth is stagnant and the euro is on its last legs.
The Sun
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The three-year drop in mortgage rates has also offset the stagnant job market's effect on mortgage delinquencies.
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The report, given by Vice Adm. Lowell E. Jacoby , director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, stated that "with the exception of naval forces, Iran's military modernization has been stagnant.
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Likewise, a pair of cozy coevolutionary symbionts embracing each other can only seem to lead to stagnant solipsism.
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How could a culture not be stagnant, not feel purposeless, when a large middle class has been granted the luxury of materiality, which is swallowed in conformity as a measure of the expanse of life itself?
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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.
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Does the Minister consider the claims that productivity in the sector is stagnant or declining are accurate?
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Used carefully, when the stream dried-up the stagnant water lasted throughout the summer.
WHEN THE APRICOTS BLOOM
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Others have faced the tough challenge of trying to save while also contending with soaring rents and stagnant wages.
Times, Sunday Times
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Items which once sat stagnantly on the shelf come to life under the rich light of a cabinet lamp.
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Reforming Warsaw's stagnant economy requires harsh measures that would translate into job losses.
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Stables, outhouses, hencoops, pigsties, stagnant ponds, and slaughterhouses vied with each other for olfactory attention.
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Mass movements are often a factor in the awakening and renovation of stagnant societies.
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UP on the high veld our rivers are apt to be strings of pools linked by muddy trickles -- the most stagnant kind of watercourse you would look for in a day's journey.
Mr. Standfast
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Over the past few years, the economy has boomed while wages have remained stagnant.
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Few fish survive in the stagnant waters of the lake.
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And in the absence of contrarian perspectives, the faith tends to become inbred and stagnant.
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stagnant water
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The most blatant discounting came in the nonfood sector, which has contracted throughout 2011 as consumer discretionary spending is squeezed by rising food and fuel inflation, stagnant wages and job insecurity.
Price Cuts Weigh on U.K. Retailers
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Campbell Soup Co. outlined Tuesday a series of investments over the next year in an attempt to spur stagnant sales and fix its key soup business—including trying to make its products tastier by adding back more salt.
Campbell Hopes Tastier Soup Leads to Higher Sales
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He had not eaten for three days and had drunk only stagnant water from a barrel.
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Mediaset is also struggling with a still-shrinking audience for its free-to-air channels, as well as dwindling advertising revenue in a stagnant economy.
Mediaset Is Hit in Italy's Turmoil
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The committee is trying to balance the twin threats of rising inflation and a stagnant economy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Take a step, the longest road also be nothing difficult; remain stagnant, then a short way are hard to reach.
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But what would be the consequences of a housing market that is stagnant, possibly for years?
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Mortier has taken immediate action to dynamize what some see as a stagnant artistic atmosphere at the Teatro Real in an attempt to allow it to finally make the hoped-for international breakthrough.
China Post Online - Taiwan , News , Taiwan newspaper
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Time Warner stock isn’t moving for a reason (he said unhappily since he still owns the shit-on-a-certificate): cable will shrink v. the internet; magazines are stagnant; aol is hot again only compared to how deathly cold it was …
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That air is often stagnant and cooked by sunshine that turns exhaust fumes into toxic ozone gas.
Times, Sunday Times
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And all of these, as we know, come with a hefty price tag -- ill-timed as we continue to see stagnant job growth and unemployment numbers.
Blanche Lincoln: Avoid Extremes to Solve our Nation's Problems
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The economy is stagnant and will hardly grow next year.
Times, Sunday Times
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You ought to get out of that stagnant pond of yours, and come where the natatory medium is fresh, clean, and thickly peopled with suckers, and a new run of 'em coming on right soon.
Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic
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Plants can't breathe if their roots are immersed in stagnant water.
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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.
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As worms are bred in a stagnant pool, so are evil thoughts in idleness.
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The fog has emerged on clear, calm and chilly nights, with the stagnant air trapping pollution.
Times, Sunday Times
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I look pregnant but am merely filled with fluids that no longer pass into the liver, but rather collect stagnantly in the abdominal tissues.
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It is depressing to see a great company retreating at a time when the economy is stagnant.
Times, Sunday Times
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But stagnant growth made a solution more pressing.
Times, Sunday Times
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They symbolized the New Pentecostal, a religion as stagnant as a dying fishpond.
Miracles, Inc.
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There is a stagnant pool at the botom of the garden.
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They won't want much, they will just let everything remain stagnant quo.
Town halls push on amid protest fears
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Turtle • Endotherm / ectotherm - Migration to northern water • Problems - Stagnant ocean -
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The plight of those workers whose real wages have been stagnant for a decade shows the loss of their core purpose.
Times, Sunday Times
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But non-food sales remained stagnant as people moved to cut out non-essential spending.
Times, Sunday Times
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Throughout the 1990s workers' pay remained largely stagnant while company executives profited handsomely.
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He could not claim to be acting on behalf of the Police Judiciaire, and, anyway, who was to know whether anyone in this village surrounded by slimy marshes and stagnant water had even heard the name Maigret?
Maigret's Rival
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He detected the faint smell of blood just before the familiar but oddly stagnant odor of Jinju came rushing toward him.
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The abyss was stagnant, a body of water under massive pressure, barely warmer than freezing and utterly without light.
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Due to low investment, industrial output has remained stagnant.
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Few fish survive in the stagnant waters of the lake.
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For a start, real wages have been stagnant or declined for the majority of workers.
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It is a chance to bring major foreign investment to one of Europe's most economically stagnant regions.
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Demand from the rich was stagnant throughout the period while that from overseas declined sharply in the 1930s.
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Leading while feeling stagnant and sluggish are sure ways to self-destruct in ministry.
Christianity Today
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As you step out into traffic, the still and stagnant city is suddenly charged with possibility.
Times, Sunday Times
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The empty storage crates stank of spoiled food and stagnant water.
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He is seeking advice on how to revive the stagnant economy.
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A successful economy is attractive for foreign investors; they do not usually go to a stagnant economy.
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Sure they're scummy, but compared to the stagnant ponds that make up Upper Hutt ‘City’, they are Mediterranean.
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A single strand of simple, unsophisticated smoke smoldered silently upward; spiraling simperingly into a sunlit bed of stagnant smog.
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Wealth: Britons may feel squeezed by austerity cuts and stagnant wage growth but an influx of rich foreigners is transforming the landscape.
Times, Sunday Times
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The horse trough was full of stagnant water.
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I hope the rest of the country moves on, refusing to join you in your stagnant backwater of 18th century hokum.
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Meat is sold from stalls on the side of stagnant puddles and children play in groups around the dirty water.
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It is spread by mosquitoes that have been breeding in the stagnant pools.
Times, Sunday Times
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The costly college game: how will low-income students attain degrees when tuitions continue to increase and customary sources of financial aid remain stagnant?
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Overall, prices went up but a lot of areas of the country are still stagnant.
The Sun
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A stagnant economy combined with a surge in the number of teenagers is likely to have contributed to rising crime levels in the US.
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By contrast, people who become stagnant at midlife dry out and shrink like prunes.
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To the innocent, who had never seen it before, it seemed discorded and inconsequent, bizarre and paradoxical like the frantic darting of the weightless bugs which run on the surface of stagnant pools.
Caps gameday special: Best hockey stories ever
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They make pretty stagnant fare as a code of practice for society.
Times, Sunday Times
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A stagnant economy combined with a surge in the number of teenagers is likely to have contributed to rising crime levels in the US.
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Watering cans, buckets and other receptacles containing stagnant water are not supposed to be left standing in tropical Singapore to prevent the spread of mosquito-borne illnesses like dengue fever.
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What's puzzling is how the GOP failed to recognize and appropriately adjust to the stagnant fallaciousness of the Limbaugh-Republicanist political calculus when, prior to its colossal Palin error, Rush, for all his supposed influence on the body politic, had failed in his campaign to prevent McCain from capturing the nomination in the first place.
BOOTLEG REPUBLICANISM
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No one could have anticipated that a president who "presided" over a fraudulent war, a disgrace in the Attorney General's office, an epic natural disaster outdone only by the epic futility of the response to that disaster, an economic downturn that shows no sign of moderating, stagnant wages, creeping unemployment, tainted food sources, skyrocketing energy prices and a stock market in need of serious psychoactive drugs would have such low approval ratings by the time he's ready to leave office.
Obama Entering White House With High Favorables -- And Bush Leaving With High Disapproval
