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• a  relating to or having sclerosis; hardened
  a sclerotic patient
• a  of or relating to the sclera of the eyeball
  sclerotic tissue

• Its sclerotic liberalism trudges along, like the Volga boatman, dreaming its own dreams.
• In domestic policy, however, it has meant an undue respect for the institution of Congress, a sclerotic body badly in need of creative leadership.
• Blame our political system, which Al Gore recently described as "sclerotic at a time when these crises require boldness.

• sclerosed

News & Articles

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• One small step on drug law reform
  Of a million things President Obama could use his second term in office to fix, he has maybe ten slots -- ten real chances to advance the debate about a topic, even to advance policy, even while Washington is at its sclerotic worst. Drug law reform has always been on the President's to-do list. This I know from a series of conversations with some of his senior policy advisers during the first ...
  Aug. 12, 2013 - The Week via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Ursula Plassnik in Washington Post
  Whether you agreed with his positions or not, Haider was a master of political communication. He did break sclerotic habits (of the political establishment),Austrian Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik said on Saturday.
• Joe Klein in Opinion Journal
  Time magazine columnist Joe Klein says Mr. Kerry is "engulfed by the sort of people Howard Dean railed against: timid congressional Democratic staff members and some of the old Clinton crowd. . . . Kerry's may be the most sclerotic presidential...
• Joe Lieberman in Connecticut Post
  Unfortunately, there is every indication that Castro intends to perpetuate the sclerotic system of one-party dictatorship he installed in Cuba, by passing power to his brother, Raul. The Cuban people deserve better than this,Lieberman said.