Sentence examples for forced idleness from inspiring English sources

Some of those who boycotted the vote wrote bitter posts about their forced idleness.

When willing workers endure forced idleness society as a whole suffers from the waste of their efforts and talents.

One wonders why there is so little concern in this country over our own system of forced idleness.

The Great Recession's forced idleness on millions of people make the demagogue's job easy to excite the passions of the mob.

Among those trying to see the bright side of Pettitte's forced idleness was Girardi, who speculated that it could be a "blessing in disguise" if Pettitte returns fresh and rested to the latter stages of the pennant race.

A handful of American citizens have been banished from industry for political reasons and forced into the camp of idleness.

Severe spending and public service cuts have failed to significantly reduce budget deficits or lower Greece's debt burden as a percentage of its fast shrinking G.D.P. Economic contraction has taken a huge bite out of tax revenues and forced much of the labor force into involuntary idleness.

As someone in the booth said (can't remember who — Bill Macatee perhaps?) on Friday night, during a tumultuous fifth-set tiebreaker victory by Taylor Dent, a Yank (and son of Aussie pro Phil Dent) whose bum back had forced him to endure surgeries and years of idleness, "If Cinderella herself wrote this story, she wouldn't believe it".

By custom, we disparage the idleness of the idle rich.

Rigid labour laws push people out of formal employment, but not necessarily into complete idleness.

Idleness brought trouble.