Smith pointed to Facebook, which languished for months after its IPO.
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But bipartisan proposals to update the law have languished for years.
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The bootstrap languished for decades at the bottom of the physics toolkit.
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Garland has languished for six months with no action in the Senate.
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In April 2010, houses languished for 137 days before sales were completed.
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The subreddit languished for more than two years until a week ago.
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Microsoft's shares, which languished for years, are now trading near record highs.
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Past labor reforms have languished for months in parliament before being watered down.
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Versions of the two policing bills languished for much of Ms. Mark-Viverito's tenure.
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But the film languished for years over problems with synchronizing the visuals and the audio.
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But the reels of silent footage and the soundtrack languished for decades in separate archives.
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It languished for years, a small link in a vast skein of asphalt and steel.
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Locke & Key languished for a few further months before being picked up by Netflix in 2018.
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It languished for decades, until the commission decided last year to start eliminating its lengthy backlog.
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But many of the students' most urgent demands were never met, and others languished for decades.
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When Henri was fatally wounded in a jousting accident, he languished for 11 days before dying.
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"Margaret" (2011), a masterpiece that languished for years in postproduction, received only a modest theatrical release.
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The case then languished for a decade and was resurrected just before the statute of limitations expired.
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But now cosmetics industry regulatory legislation that languished for years is closer than ever to becoming law.
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Twitter has been a life-altering invention, but until very recently, its stock had languished for years.
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Outside the prison where he had languished for three years, Mr Altan ran into his daughter's arms.
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A request for permission to do so officially languished for more than two weeks without a response.
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Pervez Musharraf had languished for so long that it seemed that there would never be a verdict.
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In 1926, the New York Times declared Father's Day a hopeless project that had languished for 20 years.
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But an effort to combine the two bills into one languished for months, as urgency among Republicans dissipated.
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But city officials say the Olympics helped move the needle on infrastructure plans that had languished for years.
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The cold case languished for so long that all but one of her immediate family members had died.
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The question permeates his thoughts in Port St. Lucie, where he has languished for over a year now.
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After his sudden death in 1922, the plates languished for decades, neglectfully stored in a family tobacco barn.
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But an effort to combine two competing and bipartisan bills languished for months, as the urgency among Republicans dissipated.
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Dreiband's nomination had languished for more than a year after President Donald Trump first nominated him to the post.
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Frustrated with a stock price that had languished for more than a decade, Microsoft asked Ballmer to step aside.
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It comes shortly after the European Commission formally filed for arbitration over Norwegian's request, which had languished for years.
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Braveheart and her fellow rescued dogs languished for months as her abuser's case wound its way through the courts.
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Victoria Duek, 97, languished for 48 hours in a crowded Haifa emergency room after falling and having trouble breathing.
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Some have languished for months waiting for family members to send money to pay the fee for the paperwork.
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After the case languished for years, defense attorneys notified Durham County prosecutors last week that Hicks would plead guilty.
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"I have now unearthed this exhibit from the cupboard in which it has languished for several years," the aide wrote.
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Tesla's energy and solar businesses languished for nearly two years as attention and resources were directed to the Model 3.
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The talks have languished for years, in part because Argentina has dragged its heels over which goods it wants included.
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She ended up filing her complaints with the District of Columbia government, where they have languished for over two years.
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The DACA program was later based on the concept of the bill after it languished for more than a decade.
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Stocks in defensive sectors, which generally pay steady dividends and have steady earnings, languished for the first months of 2500.
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Legislation to reestablish the company has languished for years amid political turmoil and changes of government in the war-battered nation.
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One irrigation project has languished for 40 years in eastern Uttar Pradesh, India's largest state, which goes to polls next year.
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Teehee's other national priorities include pushing through legislation she said had languished for years, including on housing and violence against women.
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What's at stake P. & G.'s stock price has languished for the last decade, especially compared to that of its rivals.
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Human rights groups and the United Nations have condemned the policy, under which refugees have languished for years in grim conditions.
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The FEC ended up deadlocked on the issue, and the question of how to handle digital ads has languished for six years.
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Take a way smaller achievement: Wollman Rink, a Manhattan attraction that languished for years because the city couldn&apost get it running.
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But Mr. Nicholson said some asylum seekers flown into Australia for medical treatment from offshore camps have languished for years in detention.
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And while African countries have some of the world's largest tracts of land under protection, many have languished for lack of funding.
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But in 2010, Republicans in Congress decided the commission was not needed, and it languished for more than three years without confirmed commissioners.
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Prosecutors counter that such a move would represent a return to an era in which white-collar cases languished for years during appeals.
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And it has taken a village to raise Eastman (1940-703) from the dead, where he and his music languished for years, unheard.
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That's not counting dozens more vacancies that languished for years without a nominee because senators made it clear they would object to anyone.
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Despite the ERA being reintroduced in every Congress since the early 1980s, the effort to add it to the Constitution languished for decades.
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Shaquita Galloway's arrest, for injury to a child by omission, brings to a close a case that had languished for years, according to authorities.
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In 1993, the case was reassigned to the special crimes unit in St. Joseph County, where it languished for 22 years, per the complaint.
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But the effort had languished for weeks amid technical holdups in the House, compelling Democrats to accuse Republicans of stalling on the president's behalf.
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Ms Merchant was taken to jail, where she languished for three weeks because she neither had nor knew anyone with $500 for her bond.
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The unfinished husks of three guided-missile frigates that have languished for three years at a Baltic shipyard show that is easier said than done.
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As a result, NARAB has languished for two years since the law's passage and the current burdensome system has persisted in a zombie-like state.
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Asylum seekers intercepted at sea are sent for "processing" in PNG and on the South Pacific island of Nauru, where many have languished for years.
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The oil-on-canvas depicting Othello with a sword in his hand, gazing upon a reclining Desdemona, had languished for years in a Maryland attic.
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It comes about a month after the European Union pressured U.S. regulators to approve the typically routine request, which has languished for more than two years.
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At the end of last year, the Education Department had nearly 100,000 claims queued up, and many of them had languished for years without a decision.
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At Twitter, no idea has languished for quite as long as a feature that would let users follow areas of interest in addition to regular accounts.
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But scientific advances have also been a boon to law enforcement authorities across the country as they seek to close cases that have languished for decades.
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Interestingly, the speed with which Kavanaugh's nomination has progressed is a stark contrast with his previous nomination for DC Circuit Court — which languished for roughly three years.
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Katie Waldman, a spokesperson for DHS, acknowledged that the Border Patrol first requested the project in 33, but it languished for the entirety of the Obama administration.
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The 85 billion CFA franc ($138.59 million) project in the town of Diamniadio is gambling on hopes it resuscitate a manufacturing sector that has languished for decades.
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Some languished for as long as seven hours aboard their planes before airport personnel could help them down onto the tarmac and lead them inside, CNN reports.
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After the company went public in 2012, its stock price languished for months because it had no plan to make money from consumers' shift to mobile devices.
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A number of rape victims have complained that investigators treated them with unnecessary skepticism and their cases languished for months, especially when the accused knows the victim.
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Lester Finkle, the current chief of staff for the Cook County Law Office of the Public Defender, says other prisoners have also languished for years waiting for hearings.
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But this time, aid for farmers like Mims has gotten tangled up inside a massive $17 billion disaster relief bill that has languished for months on Capitol Hill.
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We've already seen this play out before in New York, where a right to repair bill languished for months in the New York's state legislature before fizzling out.
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Abandoned by its white producers, the movie — believed to be the oldest surviving film to feature African-American actors — languished for years in unmarked containers before being reassembled.
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In a letter addressed to Modi that was published on Wednesday, Gandhi - who is the president of the Congress Party - said the bill had languished for too long.
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The undocumented immigrant, who arrived in the United States when he was 14, said that he had languished for months at the center waiting for a bond hearing.
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"This story shows exactly why PETA is so committed to banning continuous tethering of dogs everywhere, including in Halifax County, where this poor dog languished for over a decade."
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During his tenure as finance minister, Jaitley led the enactment of a bankruptcy code and a national goods and services tax law that had languished for almost 20 years.
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But the legislation — which, as a war powers measure, was guaranteed a vote — languished for the past several weeks while the Senate was singularly focused on Trump's impeachment trial.
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Asylum seekers intercepted at sea are sent for "processing" to three camps in PNG and one on the South Pacific island of Nauru, where many have languished for years.
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In 1984, the average lag was about 6 years; by 2012, death-row inmates languished for an average of 15 years before being executed and some waited decades longer.
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He languished for months at his home in Palm Springs, wearing an ankle bracelet that he was allowed to remove only when he had to undergo triple-bypass surgery.
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The firm then languished for several years as sales slumped and it failed to invest adequately in new models, spending most of 2014 without a boss before Palmer's appointment.
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Beyond the list, there are so many other areas including production, engineering and support services and global, regional and local media where a pay gap has languished for too long.
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The budget resolution could also pave the way to opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to oil drilling, a hot-button Republican proposal that has languished for decades.
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The order finalized a tentative ruling the department made in April and came days after the European Commission formally filed for arbitration over Norwegian's request, which had languished for three years.
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Isakson is the home-state senator for Britt Grant, an 11th Circuit nominee who has languished for weeks on the Judiciary Committee's agenda because she needs Flake's support to be approved.
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Einhorn said GM's stock price has languished for years since emerging from the government-backed bankruptcy and is currently trading at the lowest valuation in the S&P 27 stock index.
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The crumbling town has languished for decades, but its fortunes look set to change following a multi-million dollar deal to revamp the port which has triggered a rush to buy land.
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Instead, Warmbier was soon subjected to some unknown kind of mistreatment or possibly brutality, and ended up in a coma — in which he appears to have languished for more than a year.
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After the 2011 earthquake and nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan, some patients at nearby hospitals, including babies, were selected for flights to safety, while others languished for days as medical supplies dwindled.
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The former was a poet, a novelist, and a translator; the latter collected, in several volumes, the testimonies of thousands of zeks —prisoners who languished for decades or died in Stalin's gulag.
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But the remaining 20,000-square-foot lot languished for a decade until the city leased it for $4,000 a month to Joseph Reiver's father, Allan Reiver, the owner of an adjacent gallery.
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Efforts to secure funding and support for a civil rights museum in the state legislature were introduced in the early 2000s and languished for years, but kicked into high gear in 2011.
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While Congress passed the ERA -- which establishes equality regardless of sex -- in 1972, it languished for decades after it failed to reach the 38-state ratification threshold required to amend the US Constitution.
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The answer was a cupboard in the prime minister's residence at 21970 Downing Street, where the four moon specks, a gift to Britain from the United States, languished for several years in the 13s.
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Suzuki's strategy has propelled it from the bottom of sales tables in Kenya, where it languished for decades with emerging brands from China, to the top five along with Toyota, Isuzu, Mitsubishi and Ford.
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She said the bills had advanced without sufficient deliberation, unlike other proposed reforms backed by the board that have languished for months but now are expected to win the Council's approval by year's end.
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She once worked at Random House but has been out of the publishing game for nearly two decades, having ditched her editorial goals and languished for years as a New Jersey stay-at-home mom.
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In the past five years, Jaitley has steered through parliament major economic legislation such as a nationwide goods and services tax - which had languished for nearly two decades - and has defended controversial policies for the government.
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But Canadian Muslim groups have long complained that the legislation, which languished for years before it was passed, 66 to 51, on Wednesday, would penalize Muslims, particularly in a province where few women wear face coverings.
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The case has languished for years in court; legal experts believe it is still years from being resolved, and could likely return to the State Supreme Court and even advance to the United States Supreme Court.
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Pompeo and his four diplomats were waiting in an antechamber, where they languished for a full 15 minutes before being summoned down a long corridor, smoky with incense, where M.B.S.'s father, King Salman, was waiting.
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Proposed updates to the federal regulations have languished for more than two decades, said Michael Wilson, director of occupational health for the BlueGreen Alliance and a former chief scientist for the California Department of Industrial Relations.
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This guy is part of prison's lost generation—an uneducated have-not who's languished for ten years watching TV, bangin' with his homies, blowing bud in the yard, and making a few pit stops in solitary.
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Jaitley's urbane and articulate manner helped him win friends across party lines and industry, leading to the enactment of a bankruptcy code and a national goods and services tax law that had languished for almost 20 years.
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The financials saw massive upside following the U.S. presidential election last November, but languished for much of this year as the likelihood of President Trump's pro-growth agenda passing was called into question and bond yields withered.
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The finished film, which runs about 90 minutes, intercuts the interviews with rich archival footage, often so obscure that it had to be unearthed tenderly from the basements throughout the country where it had languished for decades.
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In fact, the geopolitical turbulence and market volatility putting downward pressure on the stock market is working out just fine for the commodities market, which languished for years under slow economic conditions and a general trading malaise.
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And now, after the $2 billion scandal languished for a year in the hands of politicians, and with Haiti's judiciary too weak to act, Haitians on their island and living abroad took it into their own hands.
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But after those supposedly time sensitive articles languished for more than three weeks in the House, a growing number of Democrats started expressing frustration that this game played by Pelosi made them look like liars and fools.
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The swift approval of projects that had languished for years came after Prime Minister Narendra Modi suggested that sharing the waterways could be conditional on Pakistan clamping down on anti-India militants that New Delhi says it shelters.
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Many in financial markets think it could take much longer, and see a risk that the BoE could instead be forced to cut rates below the record-low 0.5 percent where they have languished for almost seven years.
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Under Mr. Pearson's leadership, Valeant's stock price increased to more than $240 a share in summer 29.9, after having languished for years around $2411 a share at the time he took the helm of the company in 2008.
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Industry players were divided on whether the price slide would continue or be shortlived, given producers' adherence to a pledge to rein in output and prop up prices that have languished for over two years owing to a glut.
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"This report is a red blinking warning light—TSA must act to address known security vulnerabilities and finally implement recommendations that have languished for years," Cummings, the chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, said in a statement.
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In a joint letter Monday, 31 attorneys across the political spectrum and whose clients are regulated by federal campaign finance law asked [Trump] and congressional leaders for 'swift attention to this situation, which has languished for far too long.
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She also turned aside the Justice Department's claim that time was of the essence, noting that revisions to the federal death penalty protocol languished for years after shortages developed of at least one drug used in the earlier cocktail.
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Industry players were divided on whether the price slide would continue or be short-lived given producers' adherence to a pledge to rein in output and prop up prices that have languished for over two years owing to a glut.
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The swift approval of projects that had languished for years came after Prime Minister Narendra Modi suggested last year that sharing the waterways could be conditional on Pakistan clamping down on anti-India militants that New Delhi says it shelters.
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According to the lawsuit, Brittman was admitted as a John Doe to Mercy Hospital and Medical Center, where he languished for two weeks before police "incorrectly identified" him as Bennett on the basis of a mug shot, reports NBC News.
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The Justice Department's inspector general's office is already investigating the way the F.B.I. handled the matter, according to two people with knowledge of the matter, because the case languished for more than a year at the bureau before it took action.
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Kendall Christiansen, the executive director of New Yorkers for Responsible Waste Management, an industry group, criticized the law and what he called, in a statement, "the City Council's rush to adopt it after it languished for years without adequate support."
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The bill has languished for months in the face of Republican opposition that includes Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell — even as Grassley has warned that the GOP could suffer in this fall's election if the party fails to tackle drug pricing.
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CAIRO — Aid workers in Yemen gained entry on Tuesday to a major food storage warehouse where grain has languished for nearly six months because combat had made it inaccessible, a break that offered some hope in the country's worsening humanitarian crisis.
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Despite her confession, on May 9, 1693, a grand jury declined to indict her due to a lack of evidence, though she languished for 15 months in a crowded Boston prison because Parris, incensed at Tituba for recanting her confession, refused to pay her bail.
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BARDA partners with companies and provides stable development and procurement funding, usually cost-sharing, and technical assistance to bridge the so-called "valley of death" between early and advanced stages of product development where such medical countermeasures historically have languished for a variety of reasons.
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The starkly different responses from Scalise and Giffords offer a snapshot of the broader gun debate on Capitol Hill — and help to explain why reform legislation has languished for years even in the face of tens of thousands of annual shooting deaths across the country.
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Bipartisan bills addressing the Food and Drug Administration's lack of oversight of the beauty industry have languished for several years, but the outrage aimed at Johnson & Johnson specifically and the increased attention on talc generally seems to be galvanizing lawmakers to take concrete action. Rep.
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Despite the increase, China's fertility rate remains below replacement level — at which a population naturally replenishes itself from one generation to the next — where it has languished for years, according to the National Population Development Plan 236 - 143, issued by China's State Council, the country's cabinet.
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The data, published in a presentation by ECB board member Benoit Coeure, pointed to some revival in lending between banks in different euro zone countries, which had languished for almost a decade, since the ECB introduced a so-called tiered rate on deposits on Oct 30.
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The data, published in a presentation by ECB board member Benoit Coeure, pointed to some revival in lending between banks in different euro zone countries, which had languished for almost a decade, since the ECB introduced a so-called tiered rate on deposits on Oct 30.
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Less than a year before he died in poverty at the age of 68, Lequeu, who had settled into a career as a surveyor and cartographer, gave all his architectural drawings to the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, where they languished for years (including the erotic ones).
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In the past five years, Jaitley not only steered through parliament major economic legislation such as a nationwide goods and services tax - which had languished for nearly two decades - but also argued for the government's bid to end the Muslim instant divorce practice known as "triple talaq".
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The 20143-year-old had just been released from an Ontario prison, where he'd languished for years as an immigrant detainee, waiting to find out if the Canadian government would figure out a way to send him back to Somalia — or if he would ever taste freedom in Canada again.
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The 22013-year-old had just been released from an Ontario prison, where he'd languished for years as an immigrant detainee, waiting to find out if the Canadian government would figure out a way to send him back to Somalia — or if he would ever taste freedom in Canada again.
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Shares in Euro Disney (the French parent company) have performed like a raft on the "Pirates of the Caribbean" log-flume ride: the price on the opening day in 21.9 was the equivalent of €2900 and they reached €63 three years later, but have languished for more than a decade since (see chart).
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Leaders assessed the demands at an emergency summit meeting in Brussels, where Turkey's prime minister asked for billions of euros in new assistance, easier access to visas for Turks to go to Europe and the dramatic acceleration of talks on Turkey's membership in the bloc, a discussion that has languished for years.
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Most notable of this new crop is probably Barbra-Lee Grant, a shy and leggy 22-year-old beauty who was working as a clerk when Mr. Peters first encountered her and who languished for a time at the agency until Mr. Peters encouraged her to grow her hair out in an Afro.
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