The flowers languished and died.

In the intervening years it languished.

President Mandela himself was an inspiration to his people even as he languished in prison.

Groups of Pakistanis had languished for over two decades in refugee camps abroad because their own country was denying them the right of return.

Conditions finally began to stabilize in besieged cities such as Kuito, Huambo and Malange, where hungry civilians had languished for months without external assistance.

Several hundred thousand Pakistani citizens have languished from 1972 in refugee camps in another country, because Pakistan denies them the right of return to their own country.

It languished in development hell for years and had various directors attached, including Tony Scott, Michael Mann, Jonathan Mostow, and Gabriele Muccino before going into production in 2007.

He hoped that there would be extensive international participation in the economic and social development of the Palestinian territory, which had long languished on account of international neglect.

Under the illusion that lifestyles revolving around cheap oil and big cars were America s perennial right, fuel economy standards languished for decades, and politicians avoided the t word like the plague.

One successful gold investor recently explained to me that stock prices languished for a more than a decade before the Dow Jones index crossed the 1,000 mark in the early 1980 s.

34. Notwithstanding the above elements and their negative consequences for the quality of life of the population of the region, the production sector in the more diversified economies has languished over the years.

He languished until the following afternoon when he finally succumbed to a supposedly self inflicted gunshot wound at the age of 64 which incidentally is how old Alberto Giacometti was when he died.

Empowerment deriving from the conferment of autonomous authority in Gaza and Jericho must bring with it a materially transforming effect on the lives of its beneficiaries, the Palestinian people, who have for so long languished in such terrible deprivation.

The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament they languished together.

As heir to Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the legendary democratic leader who was hanged by General Muhammad Zia ul Haq s government in 1979, Benazir emerged as a symbol of resistance at a young age but languished in jails and exile in the 1980 s.

And Joseph said to the one of the two prisoners who he knew would be set free Mention me in your lord 's presence . But Satan caused him to forget mentioning this to his lord ( the ruler of Egypt ) and so Joseph languished in prison for several years .

And Joseph said to the one of the two prisoners who he knew would be set free Mention me in your lord 's presence . But Satan caused him to forget mentioning this to his lord ( the ruler of Egypt ) and so Joseph languished in prison for several years .