With many of the global economy s traditional growth engines like the United States stuck in low gear, China s performance has become increasingly important.

This is a mistake. Europe s German anchor has become stuck, and the rising tide of anxiety among Germany s partners should not leave its government indifferent.

But the deal has not stuck, and the conflict has continued.

German and European Union policymakers are calling his bluff. As a result, the two sides have become stuck in a passive aggressive standoff that has made serious negotiation impossible.

The deployment of human capital has become an important factor in explaining why some countries remain stuck in a middle income trap and why others cannot break out of low income status.

Is Europe stuck? The current team of leaders has been an enormous disappointment.

Stuck in Transition

Elephants stuck in mud.

Sami and Layla were stuck waiting.

Feiruz is stuck at the airport!

Unemployment has fallen from 10.1 over the course of the past 18 months, but the employment to population ratio has remained stuck at 58.4 .

if my step has turned out of the way, if my heart walked after my eyes, if any defilement has stuck to my hands,

And our prison system itself is stuck.

Sami stuck plastic explosive on the window.

I caricatured my way through three layers by just impressing the guards, but I got stuck. I got stuck at the third.

A behavioral metric of what intelligence is, and this has stuck in our minds for a long period of time.

But for the past 3 years, it has remained stuck in Parliament, under heavy pressure by industry mostly telecom lobbies.

MT Stuck in traffic. I'll be there soon.

Life expectancy for men is stuck at 59.

Otherwise, their economies risk remaining stuck in recession.

If young people are not to become stuck in dead end jobs, or end up without jobs at all, they need better education and skills that match those needed by employers.

Economies, Keynes believed, can become stuck in prolonged periods of under employment equilibrium in such cases, an external stimulus of some kind is needed to jolt them back to higher employment.

Much has become clear.

Lahoud has become irrelevant.

That's what I got stuck doing the landmine campaign.

He explains Looks like I am stuck in Beirut.

The engine got stuck many times in the weeds.

The subject has become more open to discussion, and it has become more acceptable to set limits.

Sami has become Layla's life.

It has become an obsession.

But to say that Turkey has become more democratic is not to say that it has become more liberal.

My brother has become a priest.

English has become my favourite subject.

Sami has become my Islamic teacher.

A convenience has become a burden.

The violence has also become crueler.

Currency undervaluation has become a substitute.

For starters, industrialism has become obsolete.

His unpopularity has become their unpopularity.

Yet this stance has become untenable.

What has become of your sister?

What has become of your sister?

Behold , Gehenna has become an ambush ,

UNOCI has become a stabilization force.

Lebanese Mark, who lives in Kuwait, says he is stuck in Beirut.