Because field crops, like potted plants, languish when they're over-watered, proper drainage is an important aspect of successful farming. |
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Conversely plants that languish in the too hot summer can survive happily in a shadier place with more humidity and slightly damper soil. |
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We fade, lose heart, become torpid, languish, then the sap rises again, and we are passionate. |
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However, we think anything is better than leaving patients to languish at home, too dysphoric and anergic to seek help. |
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Frown would have been a more appropriate appellation had this charmingly unique collection been allowed to languish unfinished. |
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Zoo animals languish away in captivity, showing us nothing of their true natural behavior. |
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Animals caught in inhumane traps will languish not for hours, but for days. |
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Having started out as a piper himself, Jock loves to languish in the tunes of glory, the marches and reels of the standard Scottish songbook. |
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About 4,939 Russian children are legally adopted by foreigners each year, but 184,000 still languish in orphanages. |
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The surface of the table has become distressed by time. There would be no space beneath such a thing to languish. |
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While equities languish, precious metals such as gold have seen their value soar as investors seek a safe haven during uncertain times. |
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That is why, according to traditional theology, unbaptized babies have to languish in limbo for all eternity. |
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Everywhere you look, beautiful, nubile young girls languish on the arms of badly dressed, uglier, older men. |
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Many bones then languish in climate-controlled storage, on steel slabs like mortuaries, waiting once again. |
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Moreover, most of them languish in mental asylums and hospitals without being visited or taken care of by their relatives. |
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Why do you have to go to law school and live with your girlfriend and leave me behind to languish and molder in this cursed workplace? |
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So are most of the people whose names languish on social housing waiting lists around Nunavut. |
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This is a time full of lessons for those who day to day languish under the oppressive yoke of capitalism. |
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In short, if bail were set in this capital case, the Dog would languish in jail for lack of it. |
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There is a paragraph in the appellant's submissions that refers to the unacceptability of simply allowing a person to languish in detention. |
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More than 40 million Indonesians languish in unemployment, official data shows. |
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Despite gaining a bonus point, South Africa's Bulls hopes of reaching the semifinals appear dashed as they languish mid-table on 23 points. |
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The Hurricanes no longer have to languish near the bottom of the points table. |
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They have been hammered at byelections, coming in a miserable eighth in Rotherham, and continue to languish at dismal ratings in the polls. |
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Plants that need moist soil will languish in sandy, dry soil, for example. |
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Not charged with a real crime or provided access to lawyers, these people must be deported promptly or freed, or many will languish, and more will die. |
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But most others languish under minuscule wages and social prejudice against athletes. |
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Immigrants in detention languish without lawyers and decent medical care even when they are mortally ill. |
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Remand prisoners can languish for years, mixing with hardened gang members. |
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I satisfy desire with pleasure, then In pleasure languish for desire again. |
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Sometimes these removal cases languish for months, if not years, because of criminals or greater priorities or whatever. |
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In most cases, there is little strategic reason for cases to languish for any lengthy period of time. |
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Patients often languish for days in the emergency unit, nearly naked and exposed without hospital gowns or curtains. |
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Although the Tories lead Labour on the immigration, they continue to languish in second place in the opinion polls. |
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I know other members of the House have talked about how we put motions forward and then sometimes they languish. |
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However, in spite of many attempts, we have not been able to overcome the decade-long stalemate in which the Conference continues to languish. |
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It is a little sad to see them excluded, because they have been left to languish in poverty for a far longer period. |
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Our old men spend their days in vanities while our youths languish in shame. |
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More than 2,200 political prisoners continue to languish behind bars in Myanmar. |
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Lacking the means to secure legal representation, or to pay bail, they often languish in jail for long periods. |
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If everyone thinking of starting a business waited for a guarantee of profit, the private enterprise system would languish. |
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But if demand continues to languish going into winter freeze-up, look for some measure of price softening post-Christmas. |
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With war a more recent reality than in other parts of Europe, Croatia must not be left to languish without direction and incentive. |
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More than 2,100 political prisoners, including many from ethnic minorities, languish in Myanmar's jails in deplorable conditions. |
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This ensures that accused persons who are not dangerous will not languish in the criminal justice system unnecessarily. |
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Their old homes on Bunker Hill began to languish in their fading glory, often well-hidden behind maturing landscaping now left to grow without being clipped. |
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Hundreds of thousands of animals languish in zoos around the world. |
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The cold, hard facts are that the Bulls now languish mid table after dropping both of their Easter weekend matches against the competition's top two clubs. |
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After storming out of the academy, it appeared he would be doomed forever to languish in the ranks of domestic cricket and any chance of representing his country was gone. |
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Common sense, uncontroversial ideas tend to languish when attention has moved elsewhere. |
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They see people just like them being elevated quickly to power while they languish, and they become envious. |
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Importers ranging from clothiers and toymakers to auto factories could find themselves empty-handed as goods from overseas languish at 29 West Coast ports. |
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Lord Paulyn insisted upon playing bezique in a remote corner with Elizabeth, leaving Diana and Hilda to languish in solitude on one of the Grecian couches. |
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Other journalists and opposition activists languish in prison on similar charges. |
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Creation Theatre Company, is building a brand new openair theatre in Headington Hill Park, where you can languish in the leafy lushness and get back to nature. |
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Just a gradual, bearable, steady impoverishment in a world where savings linked to the value of paper money languish. |
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Some of the authors most revered by their contemporaries now languish in relative obscurity. |
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Critical journalists continue to languish in prison and inside the courtrooms the breadth of the clampdown is on full display. |
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Unfortunately, a person so charged may languish in jail awaiting his fate since planting of evidence, also called frame-up, can only be addressed during the trial of the case, as enunciated in People v. Malmstedt. |
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It's the infinite space we inhabit when we languish on hold. |
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However, prisoners cannot simply be left to languish for weeks, possibly months, locked up in their cells, and this regardless of how good material conditions might be within the cells. |
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Serbia would do well to use its abundant talents and potential to act as an example to its neighbours in the region, rather than leaving them to languish because of Serbian recalcitrance. |
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To languish for someone or something to a point it affects you physically. |
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Without fresh blood, the state will languish. |
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But the few thousands allowed to stay in Canada every year cannot be a cause for pride when tens of millions of refugees and displaced people languish in camps and slums around the world. |
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Although the government would like nothing more than have Bill C-78 languish in the arcane and notoriously slow legal maze for the next few years, the PSAC has other plans. |
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He'd much rather languish for hours on your lap. |
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That something so basic with such broad national support could be allowed to languish for so long astounds me and tells me that the federal Liberals are not as good at copying ideas as some in the House may think. |
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It must not be allowed to languish for one week more. |
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It was felt that State institutions sometimes languish when it comes to offering an effective institutional counterbalance to the government by way of checks and balances. |
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Orders like Mr. Forester's go on waiting lists and languish for months. |
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Far too many languish for lack of a moderate investment of resources. |
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Despite a mild recovery in the resale housing market over the summer months, spending on the construction of new homes continued to languish in the face of persistently large inventories of unsold homes. |
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Emily had a visceral need of her home and the countryside that surrounded it, and to leave it would cause her to languish and wither. |
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Both found it absurd that a city that had once built and run its own schools, hospitals, museums, transportation and social services should languish under the lash of Whitehall. |
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Misattributions languish for decades, often longer. |
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For the ultimate Lady Muck attire, fetch your highness this fabulous, Japanese-inspired robe so she can languish in style. |
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Carr never intended to languish on the opposition benches. |
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Defamation suits, like most other cases in India, can languish for years. |
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In other words, the social web is a place of stark power law distributions – a tiny number of people commanding all of the attention, while the vast majority languish on the long tail, heard, seen and read by almost nobody. |
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The misericord choir stalls, best of only three surviving probably friary sets, languish damp and neglected in the Old Grammar School. |
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But without its own respected brands, its Toyotas and Samsungs, China will always languish at the lower end of the value chain. |
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While visitors Valladolid languish in the lower reaches of the Segunda Division, Zaragoza are sitting pretty in second, only two points behind Cordoba. |
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