Sentence examples for stuck for decades from inspiring English sources

Many poor neighborhoods get stuck for decades.

Blockbuster-sized Broadway musicals can make producers rich; plays usually don't, and Mr. Azenberg took it as a point of pride that he stuck for decades with plays whose humor and literary ambitious he admired.

Physicists had been stuck for decades trying to reconcile the quirky rules known as quantum mechanics, which govern atomic behavior, with Einstein's general theory of relativity, which describes how gravity shapes the cosmos.

The challenge now, commentators say, if Mr. Clegg is to maintain his surge in public support, is for him to defend Liberal Democratic policies that Labour and the Conservatives have denounced as soft-headed but which, they say, were largely ignored as long as the party was stuck for decades with the support of barely a fifth of the electorate.

The Israeli novelist David Grossman wrote an open letter to Netanyahu in Haaretz, taking him to task: "This is a bit embarrassing, but I will remind you, Mr. Netanyahu, that you were elected to lead Israel precisely in order to discern these rare hints of opportunity, in order to transform them into a possible lever to extricate your country from the impasse in which it has been stuck for decades".

And what about that other oft-cited statistic the 12.5 percent of Americans who have supposedly been stuck for decades at an income below the poverty line?

But reform of long-term care must stick for decades.

But Rinzler says he believes that, beyond the business of toys, what has allowed Star Wars to stick for decades with viewers of all ages is the action, energy and message of the movies and how good people feel after watching them.

Few inside Washington thought charges like this would stick; for decades they've opened their campaign coffers to millions of dollars from Fortune 500 firms without fearing any consequences at the ballot box.

In a decisive 10-point upset, Cantor's Republican primary opponent David Brat defeated the Virginia congressman after charging that he was "trying to buy this election with corporate cash". Few inside Washington thought charges like this would stick; for decades they've opened their campaign coffers to millions of dollars from Fortune 500 firms without fearing any consequences at the ballot box.

Manchester United appears headed toward a 20th league title, while Liverpool remains stuck for two decades on 18, last having won a league crown in 1990, its present struggles a dim comparison with a shimmering past.