sclerotic

The euro is tied to an economy with sclerotic growth and existential breakup risks.

That has left few options but raising taxes, which will hurt an already sclerotic economy.

It’s vital to understand that the agency’s sclerotic procedures and glacially slow decision-making resulted not from the rampant waste, fraud and abuse alleged by Trumpists but in order to avoid those evils.

God knows, having worked a whole career in government, I understood their critique of its baroque and sclerotic routines.

"Repression of social problems by governments allow bureaucracies to rot and become sclerotic as the social pressure builds to the point where bureaucracies are exploded."