7 sentences with 'stagnation'
Example sentences and phrases with the word stagnation and other words derived from it.
• « Outside the West, the classic narrative goes, there was despotism, stagnation and corruption, so it was almost inevitable that the West would eventually achieve world dominance. »
• « However, this was not a period of stagnation in the Middle East and North Africa. First, the culture of learning that had flourished during the Abbasid period continued to flourish. »
• « Thus, although Spain was the most powerful state in Europe in the 16th century, its long-term trajectory was one of decline, largely due to its commercial stagnation. »
• « In reality, the USSR was in a perpetual state of economic stagnation, with its citizens enjoying dramatically lower living standards than their contemporaries in the West and the workers working harder and for fewer benefits than many in the West. »
• « Leonid Brezhnev would hold power until 1982, overseeing a long period of what historians often characterise as stagnation: the Soviet system, including its nominal adherence to Marxism-Leninism, would remain in place, but even the elites abandoned the idea that "real" communism was feasible. »
• « The contrast was all the more striking because both sides of the Cold War divide began in similar circumstances - shattered by the Second World War - and yet within a decade the West was in the midst of an unprecedented economic boom while the East remained in relative economic stagnation. »