Sentence examples for idle of from inspiring English sources

Competitors are not sitting idle, of course.

She then sorts the other components by how busy they are, parking the most idle of the Seesmic Desktop's windows on the right, where she can ignore them most of the time.

The conviction that reforms must be driven through even when they are highly unpopular; the vision of politics as a ceaseless struggle against one's enemies; the stark dividing of society between decent, aspirational folk and the idle of all social classes such things went out with leg warmers.

All the same, to write, as Morgan does, that if only Venona had been released at the time, "the swing of the pendulum to hysterical anti-Communism could perhaps have been avoided," is idle; of course the transcripts could not have been made public then.

On the Idle of Lewis we met Michael Donald, who spends eight hours a day in the loom saddle, weaving Harris Tweed, while in St Andrews, thankfully, Rachel Obordo was willing to get up rather earlier than most of her fellow students.

While the LHC has been sitting idle of late, its scientists have not.

Aged 28, he was still green behind the ears, the quintessential public schoolboy, capable of making schoolmasterly corrections of idle errors of cricketing fact.

Dustbowl Americana slithers into the fantasies of idle dreamers; of the lonesome cowboy, trailing the plains in search of fame and fortune.

Overall, the number of idle cycles of ROP is given by (11).

This isn't merely a matter of idle curiosity, of course.

Last but not least, the city reinforced an idling law that limits the idling of private vehicles to 3 minutes.