Sentence examples for fall idle from inspiring English sources
When too many people want to save and too few to invest, then resources (including workers) fall idle.
The Pilgrims were encouraged by lone cheerleader Hester Prynne, who shouted from the sidelines, "Gimme an 'A'!" There was no halftime, lest the Puritan players fall idle for a moment and be tempted to play for the Devil's team.
But the new business is firmly rooted in this city's rich blue-jean past, tapping into a vast network of experienced designers, sewers, laundry houses and fabric importers who gave birth to the first generation of designer denim in the late 1970s and '80s — brands like Guess and Hilfiger — only to fall idle when such companies moved much of their manufacturing to China and Latin America.
"If trucks carrying parts for a Ford Explorer are stuck in an inspection queue, assembly plants can quickly fall idle with costs running as high as $1 million per hour," he says.
To her the Void and the All were one; she roamed them both, in free fall, idle and unattached.
But Mr. Noda also stressed that reducing Japan's dependence on nuclear power would be a gradual process, and that reactors that have fallen idle over safety fears since the Fukushima Daiichi accident would be restarted, albeit after stringent checks and gaining the understanding of local communities.
As more factories fell idle and were stripped down and carted off in their entirety, or as scrap, to be traded for food in China, Kim Jong Il cranked up the only non-military machinery he had left — ideology, propaganda, the engines of Juche.
Peugeot, the weaker of the two, wants to cut 6,000 jobs.Per ardua ad AstraThe combination of falling sales, idled production lines, deep discounts and rising losses makes Europe's weaker volume makers look rather like GM and Chrysler did before they were bailed out by the American government and pushed through bankruptcy proceedings.
"Jobs are not easy to find, and it is tempting for them to fall into idle ways because there is no clear guidance for them.
In support of the latter understanding is Plutarch's remark that "the Peripatetics no longer possess the original texts of Aristotle and Theophrastus, because they had fallen into idle and base hands".
The poem contains interludes of songs that are among the best of Tennyson's lyrics, including "Sweet and Low," "The Splendor Falls," "Tears, Idle Tears," and "Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal".
