Sentence examples for be idle on from inspiring English sources

By Richard Aldridge The New Yorker, March 13 , 1954P. 95 Be idle on this day of rain View Article By Charles Bethea By Junot Díaz By Kathryn Schulz By Matt Alt.

Nurses in training were never allowed to be idle on duty.

While the public appetite for "toughness" on anyone presumed to be idling on lavish benefits is voracious, a line appears to have been crossed when the state starts punishing people for having a room in their house where visiting relatives or carers can spend the night.

And if an event is outside the center, as Unger's was, forget about quick access — shuttle buses and taxis will still be idling on traffic-clogged single-lane roads when the last of the Champagne is poured.

Let Pi, singledenote the probability that only host i transmits and the remaining K-1 stations are idle on condition that at least one station transmits.

In the US cars are idle, on average, 95% of the time.

Other types only switch on when the CPU is idle, on the assumption that the user must be away from the device.

The Sooners, No. 2 in the Times ranking, are the polls' second-ranked team and were not demoted for being idle on Saturday, and rightfully so.

But this young woman had not been idle on the beach: She showed off her crochet work, like an itsy-bitsy swimsuit that would barely have covered the petite Kylie Minogue, sitting front row.

Hong Kong and the Philippines have proposed an Asian currency unit on the euro model: an idea that would obviously take years to come to pass, but would not even have been considered a little while ago.Nor have the East Asians been idle on trade issues.

The airline estimates that its costs are 20 percent to 30 percent lower than its rivals', thanks to the outsourcing of tasks like maintenance and catering; its choice of smaller, less-congested airports; and efforts to minimize the amount of time its aircraft are idle on the ground.