Sentence examples for idle exercises from inspiring English sources

4 I cannot share the Court's implicit assumption that Congress was engaged in either idle exercises or mere correction of the public record when it enacted the 1930 and 1970 Acts.

This was no idle exercise.

It is not an idle exercise.

"Talking to me about it is an idle exercise.

There was almost no small talk, for this was no idle exercise.

As he will have known, the investigation by the Business, Innovation and Skills committee was not an idle exercise in entertainment.

Fox's book is not an idle exercise in intellectual history, which makes it a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the mess we're in.

Handicapping the competitors in Internet video isn't an idle exercise either: the company that takes the lead will have access to a huge audience and, potentially, huge advertising or pay-per-view profits.

This was no idle exercise: Griffin had played a big role in the "No on 8" campaign, enlisting donations and support from prominent Californians, including the actor Brad Pitt, the real-estate heir and film producer Steve Bing, and the supermarket mogul Ron Burkle, who hosted a fund-raiser at his Los Angeles mansion.

Nor was the work of axiomatization an idle exercise, for the difficulties of formulating a precise criterion of cognitive significance (intended to separate good science from meaningless philosophical discussion) raised questions about the legitimacy of the special vocabulary that figures in scientific theories.

Bird watching is no idle exercise in these parts of Pakistan.