Sentence examples for doing nothing otherwise from inspiring English sources

But we must slash spending, because there is nothing the federal government can do that has a positive real rate of return, even when you take account of the fact that the workers employed would be doing nothing otherwise.

Meanwhile, it has been begging senior pilots, who can earn close to $300,000 a year, to sit home and collect a full 80percentt of their pay for doing nothing; otherwise, they can remain on the premises, though inactive, at full pay.

We cannot sit still and do nothing, otherwise, we would be handing Europe over to the demagogic scaremongers.

Are they angry about time wasted or grateful for a few minutes of doing nothing in between what is otherwise a standard over-scheduled day?

It's a good way to help make a difference and to use time that might otherwise be spent doing nothing.

He'd obviously done nothing wrong, otherwise they would have deported him.

Otherwise, you'll just be sitting in a rocking chair in an apartment somewhere doing nothing.

I'm doing nothing, almost nothing.

The Mets had been concerned about his diminished velocity and spotty command throughout spring training, and Sánchez did nothing to prove otherwise Monday against Baltimore.

And the reasons given on behalf of generalism in Section 2 (above) do nothing to show otherwise.

Conan Doyle was also convinced that his friend Harry Houdini had supernatural powers; Houdini could do nothing to persuade him otherwise.