Stasis

Definition

stasis /'steÇsÇs / n [U, C] ( pl stases /-si:z /) ( fml ) ေျပာင္းလဲ တိုးတက္မႈ မရိွျခင္း။ ႐ိုးအီေလးတြဲ႕၍ ၿငီးေငြ႕ဖြယ္အေျခအေန (သို႔) ဌီ။ the dull stasis of provincial life.

Examples

1. ‘I started the year in stasis and now things are moving.’
2. ‘The tension induced by this self-revulsion
3. at odds with his need for creative stasis
4. is born out of guilt.’
5. ‘It also reveals Yo La Tengo's understanding of stasis without stagnation.’
6. ‘During such periods of stasis
7. most species exhibit no directional change.’
8. ‘Schools were adjuncts of pupils' social backgrounds and teachers were tasked to implement a curriculum which maintained both social hierarchy and stasis.’
9. ‘This also explains why evolution often appears to go in spurts after periods of apparent stasis.’
10. ‘Blair has
11. it appears
12. accepted the reality that he can only expect limited successes in return for reverses - or at least stasis - in other areas.’
13. ‘With nothing going on but election manoeuvres
14. the end result is stasis
15. which is perhaps
16. as the young woman's placard suggests
17. what everyone wants.’
18. ‘From the late sixteenth century
19. stasis replaced the earlier dynamism of ideas and applications.’
20. ‘During this period of time
21. an almost complete stasis was observed.’
22. ‘Despite the stasis of the couples' narratives
23. however
24. a kind of catharsis seems finally to take place.’
25. ‘Most populations of organisms at any given time are in stasis or genetic equilibrium
26. as the fossil record indicates.’
27. ‘Above all
28. she has the confidence to slow the narrative tempo down almost to zero: a condition of stasis in which the moment is held
29. like a musical note
30. for as long as she wishes it.’
31. ‘The illness gets worse and worse as time passes
32. and the periods of stasis last increasingly longer.’
33. ‘The limitations of heterodoxy such as those I have described above go some way towards accounting for inertia and stasis.’
34. ‘The disembodied faces which we see through the darkness are recognisably human
35. but also immobile
36. as if physically caught in a state of Beckettian stasis.’
37. ‘Or to put it the other way
38. stasis and stagnation are signposts along the path towards cessation and death.’
39. ‘But despite the drama
40. there remains a strange political stasis here.’
41. ‘If they come back to us and say there is hardly any money
42. we would be in stasis (a state of stagnation).’
43. ‘The major feature of the fossil record is stasis
44. long periods in which new species do not appear.’