Sentence examples for idle plans from inspiring English sources

Two blocks from the square, along the Mobile River behind the business district, stand the downtown docks and wharves, once the center of the world's cotton trade, but now largely idle; plans for this area call for construction of a major convention hall to be completed in 1993.

The company idled plans for new factories and outsourced nonessential jobs such as maintenance for company cars.

The factory outfitted with stimulus funds is nearly idle, and plans to build a second plant have been postponed.

But with increasing emphasis on its cloud-based business, it's unlikely the company will sit idle on plans to build new data center infrastructure for long.

Krzanich heralded a $7 billion investment in Fab 42, the name of the semiconductor fabrication site in Chandler, Arizona that has been sitting idle after plans for it were abandoned in 2014.

It was no idle contingency plan: A CIA operative was actually dispatched to Mexico to await final orders before the plot was finally scotched, according to a former U.S. intelligence official.

We chewed over the usual unremarkable topics: The X Factor, future plans, idle gossip, the new Bond film.

Iraq's 60% Shia majority do not intend to sit idle if America plans to devise a way of diluting their influence.

As it is seen in Table 10, machines 1, 3, and 5 are allocated to cell 1 and machines 2, 4, and 6 are assigned to cell 2. Machine 4 is idle over the planning horizon.

I know I'd be better off focused on the computer, but at any given moment I'm pulled off track again and again by idle rumination, vacation planning, rehashing some conversation or wondering if the snow is good for sledding.

And too many plans sit idle.