But costliness and political inertia have kept these schemes largely in limbo.

An example of political inertia is the debate on relations between Russia and Belarus.

Mr. Rafsanjani lost because he was too closely associated with the recent economic failures and political inertia.

The whole idea was to allow a strong leader to push through the political inertia that had long stymied the schools from improving.

The river route is nostalgic and scenic, so it has had a lot of political inertia.

Only political inertia prevents us from adopting a national health insurance system like every other industrialized country in the world.

No doubt part of the problem was political inertia.

There's a lot of industrial and political inertia based on a fossil fuel economy.

That is not only because of political inertia.

These developments have created political inertia in what was once an antiracist movement.