Sentence examples for has remained idle from inspiring English sources

The plant has remained idle since then because of wrangling among creditors.

A Norway-based supplier of car-seat parts and a consulting group based in the automaker's home market of Sweden are owed payments; failure to pay suppliers led to the initial shutdown at Saab's primary production facility, which, despite a brief resumption earlier this summer, has remained idle for nearly five months.

The equipment, bought from an Austrian unit of the American defense contractor General Dynamics, has remained idle since it was delivered seven years ago in a deal that quickly fell under suspicion because of its high price tag and a lack of competitive bidding.

One of those plants, LG Chem Michigan, which was to produce batteries for the Chevy Volt, has remained idle since construction, and another, A123 Systems – the company that made batteries for the beleaguered electric carmaker Fisker Automotive – went bankrupt and was acquired by a Chinese auto parts maker in December.

She is a Bush political appointee who has remained idle since a lower-ranking military judge ordered a week ago that at least one trial of a terror detainee could go forward.

Indeed, anyone who has read his recent interview with Thomas Friedman and more importantly listened to his statement regarding the ongoing U.S. airstrikes targeting ISIS fighters in Iraq is right to question whether this is the same U.S. president that has remained idle for so long.

It therefore challenges the view, long unquestioned in the historical literature, that Paley's Deity was merely a watchmaker, who had remained idle since the Creation.

Compared to the numerous applications identified by Soccol and co-workers in 2006 [20], in the subsequent decade the significant decrease in price and increase in production has opened the route to several new usages of citric acid that had remained idle due to prolonged high prices.

Too many lawmakers have remained idle while Americans pay for unchecked climate change with the health of our families and the well being of our communities.

So far, the investigation has remained at low idle.

Mr. Makavejev has not made a full-length feature film since the dissolution of his homeland, but he has not remained idle: his 50-minute self-portrait, "Hole in the Soul (1994), and his contribution to the comic anthology film "Danish Girls Show Everything" (1996), are but the latest outpourings from the fertile mind of a restless artist.