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Example sentences for: stagnation

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A leader in Britain's Observer took an unusual position, claiming that the carelessly erected buildings of the 1980s, which have been blamed for the quake's massive death toll, represent Turkey's "attempt to escape from stagnation and backwardness by letting private enterprise rip."
I remember the pain exacted by Thatcherism in its early years, when half a century of disastrous socialist economics had wrought another mess of poverty, stagnation, and resentment.
Crete’s years spent under the Turks (1669–1898) constituted a period of cultural and economic stagnation.
But what the protesters call stability, Moore calls stagnation: "The least-developed countries are not threatened by globalization.
The most worrying thing is that he hasn't shown how he's going to free Peru from stagnation."