Sentence examples for idle that from inspiring English sources

If too many workers were idle, that would bear down on prices and allow central banks to keep interest rates low to boost spending and jobs and to guard against deflation.

But the Russians could not step in to offset any potential big drop in global production, because Russia does not have any oil wells standing idle that would allow it to increase production.

Intuitively, the secondary user should immediately access the channel after sensing the channel idle, that is, should always be zero.

(iii) Data (D$): Read/Write Hits and Misses, cache memory hits and misses.

"We have revenue-generating units sitting idle that could be dispatched, and we're not aware of that now," says Paul Mueller, vice president in charge of communications technology at Schneider.

"We have revenue-generating units that are sitting idle that could be dispatched and we're not aware of that now," says Paul Mueller, vice president in charge of communications technology at Schneider.

Much of the energy use isn't even from playing video games, according to NRDC — it's from the idling that goes on after the gamer has left the room.

When the finger moves idling (that is, without contacting any object), the kinematics of such an underactuated finger depends on the length of the links/phalanges, on the radii of the fingers, and on the stiffness of the joint torsion springs.

"It's the thing that blindsides you on an idle Tuesday that's tragic but that also makes you who you are.

CoreCivic, formerly known as CCA, told investors on Feb. 17 that the company has nine idle prisons that can hold a total of 8,700 people.

But the state itself owns much idle land that could be used for this purpose.