Exempel på languished

• This 'hard core' kept their mouths closed, and languished for years in detention.

• The urban areas languished, however, with rising prices and limited employment opportunities stirring discontent.

• Despite these significant contributions, he has languished in obscurity.

• There is no doubt that in the absence of media support, the student frame would have languished indefinitely in relative obscurity.

• They languished in prison, a few escaped, some died, but none were required to face the court.

• The bill languished in the chamber until 1924, when it passed.

• The aggregate of his advisors' views lent little enthusiasm to the administration's proposals, and in the absence of presidential involvement the issue languished.

• Tens of thousands of arrested people have languished in the cells for years on end.

• Because of the relative cheapness and visibility of lighting, otherwise backward cities and towns could use it to project an image of modernity while the rest of their infrastructure languished.

• By the 1950s few developmental psychologists doubted that infants languished in deprived institutional settings, but a strong controversy existed regarding the immutability of these early delays.

• Such complex and overlapping processes make it clear why the study of regolith has languished as a field of geological study until application of the modern armamentum of analytical techniques.

• The teaching of medical professionalism in general, and its social dimension in particular, has languished, despite the development of a strong ethical commitment to patient rights and shared decisionmaking.

• I speak as one who had to study by the light of a paraffin lamp while the animals languished in the modern amenity of electricity.

• He referred to the fact that our internal trade had got better, but that our foreign trade still languished.

• In another age, in another time, she would have languished all her life in hospital.