Sentence examples for stagnant state from inspiring English sources

Mr. Pally said he was not surprised that jobs were mentioned most often given the stagnant state of the economy.

More than any other single politician in Albany, Mr. Pataki now has a rare opportunity to breathe life into one of the nation's most stagnant state legislatures.

So was the Egyptian flag, no longer seen as a symbol of a stagnant state, a bureaucrat's wall decoration or a backdrop for state television broadcasts of Mr. Mubarak's meetings.

Our wages are in a stagnant state and it looks likely that our car allowance, which covers the cost of essential visits to people and places, is the next thing on the chopping block.

At Woollands [the shop where Currie had previously run a pioneering modern furniture floor] we'd never had music, but Terence insisted on it!" Terence, of course, was the then-entrepreneurial 32-year-old furniture-maker Terence Conran, a well-known figure on the London design scene who'd become frustrated with the stagnant state of furniture retailing.

Supporters of Vince Cable, the business secretary, have urged Nick Clegg to show greater independence from his Conservative coalition partners if this week's autumn statement fails to set out a big enough package to lift the UK economy out of its current stagnant state.

His experience in business, Mubarak told me, made him recognize that Egypt's stagnant, state-controlled economy needed to be reformed.

WHEN Raúl Castro, Cuba's president, gave his latest big speech, to a meeting of the National Assembly in July, he repeated his stock response to those who urge him to move faster with reforms to his country's stagnant state-run economy.

His youth, education, and exposure to the West seemed to offer the possibility of a departure from what had been the status quo: an authoritarian state, policed by a network of powerful overlapping security and intelligence agencies, and a stagnant state-run economy reliant on shrinking oil reserves.

To make matters worse, the heavy industries that once made Dongbei the pride of China are today mostly stagnant, state-owned enterprises that have trouble keeping up with the flexibility of the private sector, and which have fallen on particular hard times in recent years as the world turns away from polluting industries.

These are anxious, heady days in a country shifting from the repressive, stagnant, socialized state created by the late president, Hafez al-Assad, to the reign of his son, Bashar.