stagnation

Examples of stagnating

stagnating

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

The assumption that the energy loss along the stagnating streamline is equal to the change in potential energy along the streamline cannot be justified rigorously.
They therefore chose instead to remain in old and clearly stagnating businesses, such as jute and coal, which required less capital.
During the third period, the number of business associations has been stagnating in number.
Funding problems and stagnating revenue performance in recent years are first indications that the sustainability of this donor intervention is under threat.
After stagnating throughout the 1930s, prices rose slowly during the war.
Beyond the structural problems that the cocoa sector faced, the commodity price boom of the 1970s gave way to declining and then stagnating prices.
That is not the case however : the company is stagnating instead of developing.
Faced with stagnating or even decreasing revenues to spend on hospitals, county councils have increasingly focused on the expenditure side.
Recently, however, revenues have been stagnating and profits have been reduced.
We are not told whether the towns were growing or stagnating, or what their core strengths and weaknesses were before the growth centre project started.
The reintegration of the most vulnerable groups is 'stagnating'.
Secondly, an inexorable demographic pressure and a stagnating nonagricultural sector have resulted in a significant decline in the land-to-man ratio.
There was a trend of growing disparity between the two samples : the upper classes were becoming taller while the average stature of the labouring classes was declining or stagnating.
Environment and development policy is stagnating, and indeed we should actually be talking about a 'roll-back' in environment policy.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
Populations are falling, economic growth is stagnating, and the institute takes the view that the situation will be long-term.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
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