How to Use sclerotic in a Sentence

sclerotic

adjective

• Of course the regulators will spring to the defense of their sclerotic wards but the tide is unlikely to be stemmed.
  — Clem Chambers, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2021
• That opened the way for gradual change in the sclerotic government.
  — Tracy Wilkinson, latimes.com, 22 June 2018
• Forcing households to prop up the sclerotic state banking system, on top of the weak labor market, isn’t helping.
  — Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 15 Feb. 2019
• Buckley wrote his exposé of Yale’s slouch toward fat, sclerotic, nihilism du jour in 1951.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 11 Apr. 2021
• It’s got a sclerotic ruling class personified by the frumpy and mediocre Mutti and a midwit named Olaf.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 1 Apr. 2023
• This sclerotic process has doomed most fintech attempts.
  — Matt Hougan, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021
• The people who dream of a better world are up against a sclerotic and undemocratic system helmed by people who tell us things can’t be better.
  — Colette Shade, The New Republic, 11 Dec. 2020
• The estrangement of mother and son is inherited along with all the other trappings of the sclerotic upper class.
  — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2020
• Virtually no one feels the urgency or has the clout to reform a sclerotic system.
  — Justin Davidson, Daily Intelligencer, 29 Mar. 2018
• Change comes slowly to the Senate, a sclerotic institution that still has a pair of spittoons on the floor because, well, tradition.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2022
• Museums in Italy, owned and controlled by the state, have been infested with politics and sclerotic because of it.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 12 Sep. 2020
• Mr Abbas’s corrupt, sclerotic government has spent much of the past decade feuding not with Israel but with its own people.
  — The Economist, 26 Oct. 2017
• President Obama was awkwardly brought back to the White House to bolster support for his sclerotic health plan.
  — orlandosentinel.com, 8 Apr. 2022
• The nerves develop scars or sclerotic lesions (sclerosis is Greek for hard) in the aftermath of such attacks.
  — Bret Stetka, Scientific American, 18 June 2015
• Necrotic has a bad smell and destroys the surrounding tissue, and sclerotic exhibits scar tissue.
  — Bartie Scott, Teen Vogue, 23 Aug. 2018
• But from the start it’s been clear the sclerotic distrust between Russian and Ukrainian negotiators isn’t misplaced.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 30 Mar. 2022
• The streets became less sclerotic, cars moved more fluidly, the air grew cleaner, and money flowed toward public transit.
  — Curbed, 31 May 2023
• At his start, some of his biotech colleagues praised him as a visionary, an outsider shaking up an industry that had grown sclerotic at its highest ranks.
  — Damian Garde, STAT, 24 Aug. 2023
• Bud Selig’s sclerotic approach to leadership ensured that any problem facing the game would go unresolved for at least a year or two, festering in the process.
  — Si.com Staff, SI.com, 25 Mar. 2018
• To be sure, France’s sclerotic welfare and regulatory state has stymied growth.
  — Eliora Katz, WSJ, 2 July 2017
• In fact the evidence suggests that, as America’s economy has become more sclerotic, big firms have been able to count on cranking out high profits for longer.
  — The Economist, 6 Feb. 2020
• In 2015, when King Salman took the throne, the nation was ossifying, its royal court and bureaucracy bloated, sclerotic and by the accounts of many Saudis, deeply corrupt.
  — Nic Robertson, CNN, 12 June 2023
• And time is running out for that sclerotic body to pass any major laws before next year, when Democrats will almost surely lose their governing trifecta.
  — Wired, 22 July 2022
• The result is both greater inequality, and a more sclerotic economy.
  — Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, 11 Dec. 2017
• Since the 1990s, Italian leaders have tried to overhaul the country’s sclerotic economy while also running tight budgets.
  — Giovanni Legorano, WSJ, 3 May 2021
• This year's UNGA week was a near perfect encapsulation of the sclerotic nature of politics in 2019.
  — Julia Horowitz and Mark Thompson, CNN, 4 Oct. 2019
• The sclerotic agency is struggling to meet surging demand for Real ID licenses that will be needed to board domestic flights starting in 2020.
  — Allysia Finley, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2018
• The event proved the power of civil action in the face of a sclerotic authoritarian government and forced changes to building codes that are believed to have prevented many structures from collapse this time.
  — Elisabeth Malkin, Marina Franco and Albinson Linares, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2017
• Since the fall of Mobutu in 1997, Congo has been racked by conflict, and its sclerotic centralized government has failed to diversify the economy to insulate it from price fluctuations.
  — Nicolas Niarchos, The New York Review of Books, 16 Nov. 2023
• The Pentagon, for its part, must fix its sclerotic, parochial, and bureaucratic acquisition processes, which are especially anachronistic in an era when agility, flexibility, and speed matter more than ever.
  — Robert M. Gates, Foreign Affairs, 29 Sep. 2023

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