Sentence examples for idle matter from inspiring English sources

Since the answer to the last question is usually yes, the problem of reasonable aggregation is no idle matter.

But if 400p-plus isustaineded, this is not an idle matter of being wise after the event.

As recent court cases in Kansas, Georgia and Pennsylvania demonstrate, we are still, more than 80 years after the so-called Scopes monkey trial, suing one another over whether evolution ought to be taught in the schools, and for those who are opposed, it's not just an idle matter.

Safe biking is no idle matter in London, where bikers represent nearly 25% of rush-hour traffic in the central city.

This is no idle matter of semantics for the companies that have long dominated the industry such as the U.S.'s Eastman Kodak, Japan's Fuji Photo Film and Belgium's Agfa-Gevaert.

Consider this complaint made more than 400 years ago: "One of the great diseases of this age is the multitude of books that doth so overcharge the world that it is not able to digest the abundance of idle matter that is every day hatched and brought into the world," the English writer Barnaby Rich moaned in 1600.

Any idle kid, no matter his/her race or ethnicity, will get into trouble if left to their own devices.

But compare that widespread approval and admiration to how the media and members of the public have treated less forgiving approaches to racism, like Black Lives Matter, Idle No More and Antifa.

These aren't just idle questions but matters of immediate relevance in the war against obesity, the stakes of which were just raised.

"This is not a matter of idle speculation or press reports," Mr. Benjamin said.

"As a matter of idle curiosity," he says, "do you despise me as much as I despise you?" To which Mr. Windsor-Cunningham replies, "More, I should think".