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    stationary


    1. ’ I told my son when he arrived at the house just after five fifteen, complaining bitterly about a hold up on the motorway which had kept him stationary for over half an hour


    2. She flared, and dropped from twenty five thousand miles per hour to stationary in six tenths of a second


    3. "That's about the only thing I can think of that's good about me getting my foot crushed, you now have a stationary backrest


    4. “Minister Gordon, Pro Dantu,” Mistress Tara began in a deep voice, “there is only one life sign on that ship, and it is stationary


    5. “Offering a way out,” it spoke and returned to a stationary pose


    6. ‘What – making them?’ I asked, as we dash between the temporarily stationary cars


    7. When she stumbled across a box of stationary with the letterhead CHATTERTON PLACE, she decided it was time to look into the marked box


    8. I have run out of stationary but I wanted to write and say hello, I'm thinking about you


    9. The natural price itself varies with the natural rate of each of its component parts, of wages, profit, and rent; and in every society this rate varies according to their circumstances, according to their riches or poverty, their advancing, stationary, or declining condition


    10. First, I shall endeavour to explain what are the circumstances which naturally determine the rate of wages, and in what manner those circumstances are affected by the riches or poverty, by the advancing, stationary, or declining state of the society

    11. But though in many respects dependent upon the laws and policy, this proportion seems to be little affected by the riches or poverty of that society, by its advancing, stationary, or declining condition, but to remain the same, or very nearly the same, in all those different states


    12. Though the wealth of a country should be very great, yet if it has been long stationary, we must not expect to find the wages of labour very high in it


    13. It seems, however, to have been long stationary


    14. It is this demand which regulates and determines the state of propagation in all the different countries of the world ; in North America, in Europe, and in China ; which renders it rapidly progressive in the first, slow and gradual in the second, and altogether stationary in the last


    15. The wages paid to journeymen and servants of every kind must be such as may enable them, one with another to continue the race of journeymen and servants, according as the increasing, diminishing, or stationary demand of the society, may happen to require


    16. It is hard in the stationary, and miserable in the declining state


    17. The progressive state is, in reality, the cheerful and the hearty state to all the different orders of the society; the stationary is dull ; the declining melancholy


    18. All the three seem to be stationary manufactures, or which, though their produce may vary somewhat from year to year, are, upon the whole, neither going backwards nor forwards


    19. The demand for labour, according as it happens to be increasing, stationary, or declining, or to require an increasing, stationary, or declining population, determines the quantities of the necessaries and conveniencies of life which must be given to the labourer; and the money price of labour is determined by what is requisite for purchasing this quantity


    20. China seems to have been long stationary, and had, probably, long ago acquired that full complement of riches which is consistent with the nature of its laws and institutions

    21. advancing, stationary, or declining state of the society


    22. The proportion between the real recompence of labour in different countries, it must be remembered, is naturally regulated, not by their actual wealth or poverty, but by their advancing, stationary, or declining condition


    23. The mass of those metals may gradually and insensibly diminish, and their value gradually and insensibly rise, till the annual importation becoming again stationary, the annual consumption will gradually and insensibly accommodate itself to what that annual importation can maintain


    24. chance of keeping it stationary under the window of the


    25. When this real wealth of the society becomes stationary, his wages are soon reduced to what is barely enough to enable him to bring up a family, or to continue the race of labourers


    26. In synchronized union, these stationary


    27. In some ancient cities, which either have been long stationary, or have gone somewhat to decay, you will sometimes scarce find a single house which could have been built for its present inhabitants


    28. Our planet in fact is not stationary and exclusively blessed by the Divine in contrast with all other galactic spheres—much to our unjustified belittlement of them and exaltation of ourselves! In reality, the Earth spins around like one of those toy tops and travels around like one of those toy train sets, methodically and faithfully circling that hot, glowing ball in the sky that comes and goes on a daily basis, flaring up like my allergies and hemorrhoids that are just as regular and persistent as that shining, brilliant star we call the sun


    29. And here it was, officially penned on Thalmor stationary


    30. It went from a speed beyond comprehension to stationary in little more than an instant

    31. As the Highlanders, however, were not wandering, but stationary shepherds, as they had all a fixed habitation, and were not, in peaceable times, accustomed to follow their chieftain from place to place; so, in time of war, they were less willing to follow him to any considerable distance, or to continue for any long time in the field


    32. As the Highlanders, too, from their stationary life, spend less of their time in the open air, they were always less accustomed to military exercises, and were less expert in the use of their arms than the Tartars and Arabs are said to be


    33. He knew that the reality was the 300 metre spine was stationary and the rest of this section of the space-station was rotating around it, its speed regulated by huge electric motors


    34. As the demand increased, the school, both of philosophy and rhetoric, became stationary, first in Athens, and afterwards in several other cities


    35. The uniformity of his stationary life naturally corrupts the courage of his mind, and makes him regard, with abhorrence, the irregular, uncertain, and adventurous life of a soldier


    36. stationary, or declining population


    37. As the wages of labour are everywhere regulated, partly by the demand for it, and partly by the average price of the necessary articles of subsistence; whatever raises this average price must necessarily raise those wages; so that the labourer may still be able to purchase that quantity of those necessary articles which the state of the demand for labour, whether increasing, stationary, or declining, requires that he should have


    38. Any rise in the average price of necessaries, unless it be compensated by a proportionable rise in the wages of labour, must necessarily diminish, more or less, the ability of the poor to bring up numerous families, and, consequently, to supply the demand for useful labour; whatever may be the state of that demand, whether increasing, stationary, or declining; or such as requires an increasing, stationary, or declining population


    39. almost stationary at the time of destruction


    40. But then why would they have come out of the jump nearly stationary? That

    41. The display indicated she was now stationary; this was the time to make his move


    42. He had flown high above the forest, even though his body had been stationary in the taproot chamber


    43. Hotel stationary was in the top center drawer


    44. There wasn't much change in scenery and no turning or climbing, so it felt more like riding a stationary bike than a real bike


    45. Oblivious of her, the birds swarmed about her head and, within arm’s reach, remained stationary in the air, then plunged into the water


    46. Since the ship stays stationary with respect to time, but moves in space, it effectively bypasses the speed-of-light limit


    47. “Good, it appears their shields only work when they are stationary,” said the sergeant


    48. helicopter came into view, hovering stationary at the side of the


    49. seated position beside her, he glanced back at the stationary


    50. Scotch, finding his balance, glaring furiously at the stationary











































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    Synonyms for "stationary"

    stationary motionless standing still unmoving idle unused

    "stationary" definitions

    standing still


    not capable of being moved