Sentence examples for gummed from inspiring English sources

Not only has she gummed up the Primark publicity machine for days on end and brought back into discussion the costs of cheap fashion, she's also given pause to two shoppers.

It turns out that transistors in these flash-memory devices are prone to being gummed up with electrostatic charge that they cannot dissipate.

However, there is a danger that, when labour markets are gummed up, a cyclical rise in unemployment can turn into a structural one making it impervious to an economic upturn.

Each book had as frontispiece an original painting, carefully gummed onto the paper, produced by anonymous painters at the Jagannatha Temple in Puri, to which he returned every year.

The monetary lever cannot be pulled much more furiously than it has been (the Bank of England slashed the base rate of interest by one and a half percentage points on November 6th and will probably cut more) but banks' unwillingness to lend has gummed up the transmission of lower rates to borrowers.

It was only in the 1980s that entrepreneurial activity really slowed down, presumably as many markets became gummed up by incumbents and by regulation.Even now, amid a sliding economy, the fires of entrepreneurship are flickering.

The Icelandic government has taken a 75% stake in Glitnir, a bank with outrageous reliance on gummed-up wholesale funding markets.

The idea is to double an existing £100 billion Bank of England programme to give banks highly liquid instruments in exchange for gummed-up mortgage-backed securities and other illiquid assets.The third leg is to try to kick-start lending to banks over lengthier periods, of up to about three years, an eternity at a time when lenders' horizons stretch no farther than the next day.

And it is targeting a genuine problem a badly gummed-up part of the mortgage market.

Behind his bluster at the ECB he is pushing supply-side reforms, including a loosening of the gummed-up French labour market.

On June 1st a new code will come into effect stipulating that, among other things, listed companies have at least two outside directors on their board.Significant though these two measures are, along with others (including helping women in work), they fall far short of what Japan's gummed-up economy requires.