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languishes

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Third person singular of languish

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Xiaomi may be number one in China, where Apple languishes in sixth place, but on a global scale with 6% of the smartphone shipments in the third quarter, it is far behind Samsung's 25% and Apple's 12%.

Related: Election 2015: Afzal Amin says he was victim of 'year-long sting' – live Meanwhile, Scottish Labour languishes 16 points behind on 27%, an advance of only one point since Christmas and the arrival of their new leader.

Some $1.7 trillion of private savings languishes in domestic deposit accounts while thousands of growing companies are starved of funds.

Never a mass organisation, its membership now languishes at around 300,000, from a high of around 600,000, the association claims, just after the second world war.Mr Jealous launched his tenure with an ambitious online voter-registration programme aimed at young blacks.

That may be because three of the five gold medallists in Cuba's 2004 Olympic team have since defected; a fourth languishes in Havana, disgraced for trying to do the same.

A politician renowned for strategic cunning has erred repeatedly (most famously over whether to call a snap election last autumn) and now languishes in the polls; an intellectual with an eye for the big picture still lacks a theme for his government, or even a signature reform.

This time, the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), under whose banner he will run again, languishes a distant third.

Natural rubber languishes at 30-year lows in Asia.In this section CHOCOLATE OUTPUT, DEMAND AND JOBS PRICES AND WAGES COMMODITY PRICE INDEX Reprints Related topics Beverage manufacturing Consumer non-cyclicals Non-alcoholic drinks Food and drink companies Coffee and tea manufacturing.

But the firm's market share languishes at around 8% of all handset sales, whereas Samsung commands just over a fifth of them.Apple's fortunes are improving.

Mr Davis is such a figure of hate as he languishes in a Lahore jail that even his guards are kept unarmed for fear they might kill him.

Mr García's approval rating languishes at 26%, according to a poll by Ipsos-Apoyo.

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