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Example sentences for: stagnant

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With few exceptions, they appear to be phrases ( bridging loan, wide open, Hyde Park railings ), adages or proverbs ( Don't be after breaking your shin on a stool that is not in your way, When the wheat lies long in bed, it rises with a heavy head, The water that comes from the same spring cannot be both fresh and salt, Better feed five drones than starve one bee ), and, occasionally, individual words ( beeswax business, grape-vine, stagnant ).
The Post says it's because of a stagnant state economy and a welfare system still needing an overhaul.
The actual issue is not explained, but the charge taps into the populist anger about stagnant wages, foreign competition, and the globalization that both Clinton and Dole, in fact, have supported.
Almost single-handedly, Murdoch has modernized the world's media, forcing competition on stagnant businesses, cracking open monopolies and oligopolies, vanquishing "traditions" that were often an excuse for laziness, unleashing the creative destruction of capitalism on an industry that thought itself exempt from it.
It's the deadly sense of enforced conformity, the stale air that blows in from the stagnant ponds of the Right.