Sentence examples for forced leisure from inspiring English sources

"It's to the point where traffic has become a forced leisure time," he said.

Rex Ryan's right leg is proof that the Jets coach spent a little too much of his forced leisure time in the tattoo parlor.

Whether humanity will find new ways of using its labour, or the future will be given over to forced leisure, is a matter of much worried debate among economists.

But since (after all) there was no one to blame for the current predicament and little that could be done to resolve it, many travelers here are finding the forced leisure time an odd respite from the pressures and speed of 21st-century life.

In the forced leisure of my recent life I had been reading motorcycle magazines as fast as publishers could print them.

"Indirect" low-cost airlines competing with Eurostar from London to destinations beyond Paris have forced down leisure fares and passenger numbers on the train service.

With hours worked gradually rising for those in the labor force, leisure spending will seem more necessary.

Before retirement, an economic agent's leisure rate is upper limited by L, and when the leisure rate at which the economic agent optimally enjoys reaches L, she is forced to reduce leisure and to increase consumption to retain the utility.

Another factor was the leisure forced on the French aristocracy by an absolute monarchy.

There are also concerns over facilities, with some local authorities forced to close leisure centres and swimming pools due to budget cuts, and worries over the ability of sport governing bodies to drive the uplift in participation promised by those who said it would be one of the positive legacies of the London Olympics.

Because apparently some 10 million Americans aren't, and when the switch hits they'll be cruelly deprived of television and will be forced to spend their leisure time interacting with their friends and family, perhaps out in that beautiful summer weather.