Sentence examples for keep idle from inspiring English sources

Rather than keep idle employees on the payroll, companies now lay them off and cut overtime so quickly that output per hour in the second quarter continued to rise despite almost no increase in production.

or keep idle; other tasks cannot hold this resource at the same time.

We further assume that the relay of the inactive link will keep idle, i.e., no energy is harvested.

The third example is presented by incorporating a machine depot feature into the main model to keep idle machines in successive periods with completely different levels of part demands.

It's less of a game and more of a way to keep idle hands occupied.

If not, there's nothing like a little finger food to keep idle hands busily occupied and out of your way.

The study also found that trucks lining up at and near the stations were the biggest noise factor, and recommended focusing on design requirements for the stations to keep idling trucks off the streets, which sanitation officials said they would consider.

Only 3 of Japan's 54 reactors are operating; the rest have been kept idle by local governments worried about safety.

According to prevailing social conditions, their inmates might be let out to contractors or kept idle to prevent competition on the labour market.

The company kept idle workers on the payroll during the Depression, then became a pioneer in integrating factories in the South in the 1950's.

It also meant that untold numbers of connections to final destinations were missed, dozens of gates at other airports were kept idle waiting on those late planes, dozens of other flights at those airports were delayed as a result and so on around the country, like a bad echo.