Adjective : a stagnant economy. From Dictionary.com.
Why do they fight for "security" - I call it stagnancy - instead of better performance under better conditions?. From Wordnik.com. [Olympia Wrap Up, Pt. 1 « PubliCola] Reference
A handshake's distance between movement and stagnancy. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-11-01] Reference
Stability (or stagnancy) makes me bored or complacent. From Wordnik.com. [suit-of-meat Diary Entry] Reference
Slither is the perfect cure for such cinematic stagnancy. From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily: Horrors, Halloween.] Reference
I've been dulled, not by choice, but by time and stagnancy. From Wordnik.com. [lethalpickle Diary Entry] Reference
It seemed, then, that the stagnancy of the summer was lifting. From Wordnik.com. [Diversion] Reference
And without that current you have stagnancy, and that is never a good thing. From Wordnik.com. [Catherine Specter: The Way We Word] Reference
I would no longer sense the acrid tang of stagnancy upon waking every work-day. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference
Senez were insignificant priests, steeped in country wine and country stagnancy. From Wordnik.com. [Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1] Reference
You know how bad things must be when "more stagnancy than decline" is celebrated. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-07-01] Reference
After years of stagnancy, the recovering economy has avoided the sub-prime crisis. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Japan continues climb out of lost decade] Reference
'I would no longer sense the acrid tang of stagnancy upon waking every work-day.'. From Wordnik.com. [err... blogging. yes. um...] Reference
The NAACP has relegated itself into the closet of stagnancy and ineffectiveness …. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Bush Uses NAACP Speech To Promote Estate Tax Repeal, Doesn’t Utter The Word ‘Poverty’] Reference
Mr. Sarkozy has famously called for "rupture" with the stagnancy of the past 30 years. From Wordnik.com. [Foxy President] Reference
One of the ways that the placid core affects the genre as a whole is in its stagnancy. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-01-01] Reference
The stagnancy in agriculture is mind-boggling, with only 3% growth in the last two decades?. From Wordnik.com. [Questions and Answers: M.S. Swaminathan] Reference
Drowning in stagnancy and about ready to choke somebody (maybe myself) if it doesn't end soon. From Wordnik.com. [nspblues Diary Entry] Reference
In Storm Thief, Wooding looks at the balance between chaos and order, stagnancy and creativity. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Thief] Reference
Periods of stagnancy in your blogging start to correspond to periods of stagnancy in your teaching. From Wordnik.com. [Dean Shareski: How To Make Better Teachers] Reference
The imaginative stagnancy of the "readings factory" has certainly turned me off of the idea of getting a Ph. From Wordnik.com. [An end to readings] Reference
According to a nearby elephant, this sense of stagnancy commonly occurs in symbiotic partnerships across sub-Saharan Africa. From Wordnik.com. [Humor: Rhino, Tickbird Stuck In Dead-End Symbiotic Relationship] Reference
Because in every moment, we are either stepping towards growth and light or stagnancy and rot -- towards life or towards death. From Wordnik.com. [Consciousness & Intuition] Reference
These are genuine difficulties and I do not minimize them but I would rather deal with them than with the stagnancy we face today. From Wordnik.com. [And Now the Good News] Reference
Instead, this Orange Revolution begins in the hearts of team members—focused on conquering barriers, expectations, and stagnancy. From Wordnik.com. [The Orange Revolution] Reference
This is most unfortunate, as this pivotal moment calls for renewed creativity, not the reinforced stagnancy of long-held assumptions. From Wordnik.com. [Thinking creatively about Iran policy] Reference
Without the profit incentive for innovation, and the hot cleansing fire of business failure, it tended toward stagnancy and corruption. From Wordnik.com. [Nathan Lewis: How to Create Jobs] Reference
Democratic representatives Barney Frank and Carolyn Maloney stressed the stagnancy of “average” real wages over the last two years. From Wordnik.com. [Trade and Growth] Reference
Just to stay at the current level of stagnancy, Muslim majority states will have to create 100 million new jobs over the next 15-20 years. From Wordnik.com. [Ronald B. Bruder: A Marshall Plan for the Islamic World?] Reference
And with it all there is a heavy sense of stagnancy, a dreary lifelessness. From Wordnik.com. [Figures of Several Centuries] Reference
Otherwise you would be sticking either at a stagnancy or at something impossible. From Wordnik.com. [The Agony of the Church (1917)] Reference
The number increased over one per cent between 2005 and 2007, after 15 years of stagnancy. From Wordnik.com. [The Latest From www.inthenews.co.uk] Reference
Both would be unwise: nature tolerates no stagnancy and punishes experiments with the impossible. From Wordnik.com. [The Agony of the Church (1917)] Reference
That stagnancy will allow the market to stay tight even if new jobs are not created, said Sossaman. From Wordnik.com. [CityBusiness Up to the Minute] Reference
And along with it, a lot of promising careers also start their journey down the drain of stagnancy. From Wordnik.com. [American Chronicle] Reference
With stimulus, U.S. risks following Japan's example of stagnancy decade » A lesson in how economic stimulus can go horribly wrong. From Wordnik.com. [Army Rumour Service] Reference
Moles had taken over from John Bracewell when a similar situation of stagnancy forced Bracewell out of the role less than a year ago. From Wordnik.com. [Cricket Blog] Reference
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