Sentence examples for in a standby from inspiring English sources

EVERY airline flight you are on has at least a handful of mobiles, laptops and other electronic kit left in a standby mode or actively on, rather than shut off as aviation regulators and airlines demand.

The Windows 8 tablet from Microsoft, expected in about a year with Qualcomm's Snapdragon chip inside, "will collect data in a standby mode, like a phone," Mr. Jacobs said.

The range is the same as this year's range of 5percentto6percentcent set in a standby loan accord signed in January with the International Monetary Fund.

Blocked ports are then kept in a standby mode of operation until a network failure occurs.

In a standby mode, the battery could last two days or more.

An imperfect switching case in a standby redundant system is also considered.

Not only do servers bring pretty decent food and drink directly to your seat, something of an improvement over my usual sneak-in-a-six-pack standby, they also supplement first runs with a potent blend of classics, cult classics, obscure animated and experimental films you almost never see anywhere, interactive special events, and some truly bizarre B-movies and genre film.

Mrs. Golding also blamed this cabal for the White House's delay in naming a new ambassador and the GOJ's difficulties in finalizing a Standby Agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

UNICEF Timor-Leste has 162 school-in-a-box kits on standby, ready to go out.

Philip Dorian McAdoo, once Musafa in "The Lion King," now a standby in "Rent," came in and told her, "I heard your CD on the radio".

The target had been agreed with the IMF, which in November 2008 approved a standby arrangement of $11.3 billion for Pakistan.