Sentence examples for inert activity from inspiring English sources

Yet this vision of gaming as a passive, inert activity does little to help struggling parents.

The characters and relationships feel recycled, and the writing is inert; plot activity stands in for a pulse.

In turn, influences of more inert adrenocortical activity would appear to be sustained after a delayed onset.

If matter is inert then the activity we see all around us must have another source, which must be immaterial.

According to Leibniz, a world of genuinely active substances is more perfect than a world of purely passive or causally inert substances, whose activity is not properly ascribed to them but to God.

Barbitone buffer was selected for NfH incubation with ALP because it is inert to enzyme activity (Moss and Henderson, 1994, p. 831).

In that study, it was concluded that DNA being inert in catalytic activity – thus working specially as template, can generate a selective advantage for its emergence in the RNA-based system.

The public was "never in actual danger as this device was inert, and his activities were monitored very closely as the plot developed," said Richard A. McFeely, the special agent in charge of the F.B.I.'s Baltimore division.

On the contrary, lignite had a higher C/N and higher recalcitrant C content compared to recent soil organic matter, which resulted in a decrease in the expression of microbial soil functions involved in the turn-over of the main bio-elements C, N, P and S due to lignite acting as a diluting factor (i.e. inert regarding microbial activities).

Moreover, whereas Cartesian extended substance is totally inert, Leibniz insisted that activity is the hallmark of substance.

Heat treatment of these preparations in an inert atmosphere increased catalytic activity for reduction of oxygen.