The long years of stasis and repression banked up the flood, and it was ready to burst.
After five years of Klinsiball, five years of stasis, five years of hoping for the best against all the evidence, five years of the US being managed by a sideline dad-in-chief, that's surely not good enough.
He then claims that punctuated equilibrium -- a model of evolution in which new species form over tens of thousands of years and then settle into millions of years of stasis -- was developed to solve this supposed paradox.
Gould and Eldredge re-addressed this question, pointing out that the fossil record was one of millions of years of stasis, punctuated by relatively brief periods of rapid change - hence punctuated equilibrium.
And three weeks away from the Super League's 20th season, which kicks off on 5 February when Wigan face Widnes, Solly went further still, saying he could hear the sound of a sport growing again after years of stasis.
At Schalke, Horst Heldt went in the summer after six years of stasis; Robin Dutt was fired after Stuttgart's drop to Bundesliga 2 in May; Thomas Eichin was shown the door in May after three years of lower mid-table stagnation at Werder Bremen.
For India, the prospect of another year of political stasis has deepened the sense of gloom among business leaders and others already frustrated by the government's inability to tackle crucial reforms at a time when India's economy is slowing down.
This view would maintain an initial 35 million-year interval of stasis, or a long fuse, followed by a relatively sudden, 15 million-year interval of rapid cladogenesis from 155 to 140 Ma, toward the end of which the Glossata evolved.
The alternative, of four more years of angry stasis, would do America, and the world, huge damage.
Parliament is now considering long-delayed legislation to regulate the shale gas industry, but years of bureaucratic stasis have left Poland's shale gas potential largely untapped.The US Energy Information Administration estimated in 2011 that Poland had possible reserves of 5.3 trillion cubic metres, the largest in Europe.
