The classical music scene languished during the war as symphony orchestras and opera companies lost musicians to military bands. |
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While the Byzantine Empire was flourishing, western Europe languished in spiritual and cultural darkness. |
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For years afterward, the index languished below the century mark as the economy slowed and inflation ravaged consumers' buying power. |
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For 74 years, these true American heroines have languished there ignominiously. |
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For seven days we climbed and skied perfect corn snow, sunbathed by the pool, and languished in the hot tub. |
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Once classified by the government as a first-class city, Naga now languished with a third-class rating. |
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Have your investments languished because of low interest rates and a lethargic stock market? |
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Most of those imprisoned languished into ill health, many losing their lives due to total disregard. |
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It has languished long enough in the shadow of unemployment and empty promises. |
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For 829 days he languished in an Indian jail, the result of a terrible miscarriage of justice. |
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Back in the late 1970s it languished at motoring's base camp, keeping company with much more mundane marques. |
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Now the former convenience store, which had languished on the market for nine months, is a coffee roastery and bakery. |
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Only a free market would restore abundance, not to mention reanimating foreign trade, which had languished under a controlled economy. |
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Under this legislation some men have languished in prisons for almost two years now without charge or trial. |
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Bradford has for too long languished at the end of two dead-end railway lines and one dead-end motorway. |
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A landmark securities law that would criminalize insider trading in Hong Kong has languished for a year. |
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Before and after the Second World War, many European peoples languished under totalitarian rule. |
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It languished until 1994, when this government adopted the first national infrastructure program. |
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After signing the Convention in 1977, he submitted the project to the Senate where it has languished. |
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Meanwhile, most other stocks, domestic and foreign, either languished or fell. |
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Although McClure set Forrest to work on the engraving around 1863, the unfinished plate languished, as sometimes happened in the tedious practice of line engraving. |
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Howard didn't know how long he'd languished, lost in misery. |
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Thus rusticated, Flashman languished for more than a century until he was reborn as Fraser's cavalryman. |
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The script for The conspirator was written 18 years ago and languished without a home. |
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Diverging marketsTHE world economy began to bifurcate in 2014, as America started to grow again while Japan and Europe languished. |
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For example, one law languished before Congress for eight months, which is why there was bad blood between us. |
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In fact, Canada has languished in innovation purgatory under the government. |
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Born in Kuwait, Jason languished in college in the States and says he became clinically depressed. |
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The national unity government's program of action was tabled in Parliament in December 2003, but its implementation has languished. |
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One evening, gorgeous blocks of pork belly, sticky with caramel, languished untouched after a first bite proved paralyzingly sweet. |
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The collection languished for years in Harrison's steam boiler factory, and Catlin again lobbied the U.S. government to purchase his Indian collection to no avail. |
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Mr. Speaker, for over a year Brenda Martin has languished in a Guadalajara prison for allegedly being part of a phony investment scheme. |
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Though the city has long lobbied for a speed camera bill, proposals have languished in Albany. |
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History wars, reading wars, wars for adults to fight as quality and equity in education languished. |
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Most have never been seen before by anyone but the photographer and all have languished for decades in a vault. |
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However, since the conclusion of the CTBT the CD has languished in virtual stalemate, not being able to agree on what to negotiate next. |
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I don't understand why treatment has languished, other than that there's not really a valuing of it. |
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The final report, issued nine years ago this month, has unfortunately languished on government shelves ever since. |
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There have certainly been notable declarations on the matter, such as the Venice declaration, but they have languished over the years. |
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This conflict has languished for too long and has hindered regional cooperation on urgent and emerging issues facing North Africa. |
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Part of the reason it has languished in obscurity is because it was never given a proper release during or following its limited theatrical run. |
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Unfortunately, the proposal languished on the Council table for more than a decade, blocked by the British government. |
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They languished in nursing homes, too out of breath from congestive heart failure to get up and move around. |
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Lawns remained uncut, gardens unweeded and crops languished in the field. |
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And as the public sector grew, the private sector languished. |
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For decades, these fascinating recordings languished in the Cash Family vault, unheard and unremembered. |
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While acknowledging the importance of the scientific basis for these criteria, the Working Group also notes that except for a few isolated settings, implementation of LAM in the field has languished. |
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As world trade and expectations for future expansion became more optimistic, lowly rated companies which had languished during the recession, such as steel and other metals producers, rebounded. |
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It had been reported by civil society that other legislation against torture had languished in Congress for over 10 years due to the low priority accorded to it. |
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The Liberals languished in opposition for a decade, while the coalition of Salisbury and Chamberlain held power. |
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But the penthouses languished on the market, until he began marketing them as combined space for superaffluent buyers. |
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Instead, it languished with the rest of their backlog for years. |
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The coaches, gleaming with teak and brass, had once languished, dilapidated, as a tailor's premises in Shrivenham, which sold uniforms to graduates of an anti-aircraft gunnery course. |
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With the change of federal government in 2006, however, these agreements have languished and funding has dwindled to a fraction of what was promised. |
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He charts the club's revival to an excruciating afternoon at Hillsborough on the final day in 2009-10, when the club languished in administration with its very existence on the line. |
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Until the legal system got around to dealing with their cases, they languished in jails without having been charged, deprived of habeas corpus and subject to violent man-handling by guards and police. |
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The Mikhailovsky is half the size of the Bolshoi and has always languished in the shadow of St Petersburg's older and more illustrious Mariinsky Ballet. |
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Not only has the threat persisted until now, but also we see that the commitment of some nuclear-weapon States to move in the direction of nuclear disarmament has languished. |
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But who now languished in a jailcell with a split pate while his foe sped away into the night? |
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Steve Burke, a former Disney executive who used to run ABC, and who is now Comcast Cable's president, also stressed the need to revitalise Disney's animation business, which has languished of late. |
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In general, the industry languished until 1898 when the arrival of significant numbers of settlers on the prairies finally created an expanding demand for west coast lumber. |
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We have languished on approval of specific applications while in other parts of the world they have managed to deal with quality and safety of food eradiation. |
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Motorcoach safety legislation has languished for far too long, which is why we joined with Ms. Claybrook's organization, Public Citizen, to develop a Senate bill and worked with others to support a House bill. |
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This is a long-standing co-operative arrangement that has languished in recent years, but has the potential to increase the interaction between the different elements of the United Nations that deal with ocean activities. |
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This, coupled with a lack of administrative requirements that specified a time frame for adjudication of the case, meant that cases languished for months. |
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Why doesn't everyone love sherry, they asked, celebrating it as the most undervalued, underappreciated wine in the world, as it languished in the back pages of wine lists and on the dustiest of retail shelves. |
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Hospitals rotted: even many of the missions languished. |
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Literature was doing well, but the fine arts languished as the Great Exhibition of 1851 showcased Britain's industrial prowess rather than its sculpture, painting or music. |
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Whenever the Liberals were out of power, home rule proposals languished. |
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