The prolonged stagnation is an issue in the Presidential election campaign, of course.

The civilisation had long past its glorious peak and had undergone prolonged stagnation.

They are having to resort to it because it is a prolonged economic stagnation which we haven't seen in the post-war period.

The French are rightly worried about their country's prolonged economic stagnation and chronic double-digit unemployment.

The danger today is that demand will decline instead, and recession will return - or there will be prolonged stagnation.

France, like Britain, also entered into a prolonged stagnation that extended to 1897.

Economists have called such stimulants necessary for Japan's economy to escape prolonged stagnation.

This prolonged stagnation and petty watchfulness in what Napoleon himself called that 'unchristian' climate, told cruelly on the health of the ship's company.

He doubts that the private sector on its own can save the country from another recession or prolonged stagnation.

The further danger is that prolonged stagnation makes ultimate recovery even slower.