Sentence examples for persistently stuck from inspiring English sources

"We are seeing record levels of employment in Britain, as more and more people find a job, but we need to look at those who are persistently stuck on benefits.

In addition to lower starting compensation, labor studies show that labor market frictions limit the ability of workers to shift into better jobs as the economy rebounds, leaving workers persistently stuck in low-wage and otherwise less desirable jobs (Genda et al. 2010; Kahn 2010; Kondo 2007; Kwon et al. 2010; Oreopoulos et al. 2012; Oyer 2006, 2008).

Not only are surging gold prices not a sign of severe inflation just around the corner, they're actually the result of a persistently depressed economy stuck in a liquidity trap — an economy that basically faces the threat of Japanese-style deflation, not Weimar-style inflation.

Among her objections, what stuck most persistently in the mind was the idea that reading him made one feel "as though he's sitting on your face and you can't breathe".

On the set Mr. Laurie sticks persistently to American dialect even off camera because, he said: "I find it hard to go back and forth.

In the matter of diet, I have been persistently strict in sticking to the things which didn't agree with me, until one or the other of us got the best of it.

"In Hawaii, if you are persistently poor, you are really stuck where you are, on the islands".

The UN now assumes more countries than before will be stuck either with high or persistently low fertility, reflecting, in part, the so-called "pause" in declining fertility taking place in Africa.

At the same time we have had persistently, eye-wateringly high numbers of British born people stuck on welfare.

However, it is concerned that the eurozone could get stuck in an economic rut in which persistently low growth leaves the public convinced that prices will keep falling.

If 2012 brings the equivalent of the Japanese trauma or Greek crisis this year and persistently high gas prices, with relatively anemic growth of 1.5 to 2 percent and joblessness stuck around 9 percent, the first scenario may be more likely.