The word "languish" is a valid word in written English.
You can use this word when you want to describe a person or thing feeling sad or lonely because of a lack of activity or attention. For example: "The neglected house began to languish, until its new owners renovated it."
In other words, the social web is a place of stark power law distributions – a tiny number of people commanding all of the attention, while the vast majority languish on the long tail, heard, seen and read by almost nobody.
Carr never intended to languish on the opposition benches.
They have been hammered at byelections, coming in a miserable eighth in Rotherham, and continue to languish at dismal ratings in the polls.
"Immigration removal centres are places where many detainees languish in indefinite detention despite not being accused of any crime and this has a tremendous negative impact on them," Mlotshwa said.
Both found it absurd that a city that had once built and run its own schools, hospitals, museums, transportation and social services should languish under the lash of Whitehall.
Although the Tories lead Labour on the immigration, they continue to languish in second place in the opinion polls.
"Immigration removal centres are places where many detainees languish in indefinite detention despite not being accused of any crime, and this has a tremendous negative impact," Mlotshwa said.
Orphaned and unaccompanied children who have survived the horrific experience of traveling alone to Australia to seek asylum – or who have lost parents on the way to Australia – languish in terrible conditions, treated "worse than animals".
So there are little children who have been rescued from what were to them at least real homes, quite possibly very loving ones, and who now languish in the state's truly awful orphanages.
At the "entrance" 41% of all prisoners languish in pre-trial detention.
Shares in Blackstone, which led the boom, languish some 20% below the price at which they were sold to the public in June.
