The phrase "keeping idle" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to someone who is not actively doing anything. Example sentence: "The hours spent keeping idle are hours wasted."
While the notion of keeping idle youngsters out of trouble with meaningful activities has universal appeal, some critics frown at the notion of the government, rather than families, being responsible for children for more hours each day.
Other design aspects are to design a multi-floor layout to form cells in different floors, a multi-rows layout of equal area facilities in each cell, flexible reconfigurations of cells during successive periods, distance-based material handling cost, and machine depot keeping idle machines.
In addition, keeping idle machines in a depot gives the model an opportunity to form fewer cells and reduce related cost.
As a result, the cost saving attained by keeping idle machines in a depot and forming fewer cells for this example is equal to (1,800 + 1,500 + 1,700 + 20,000 = 25,000).
Already some say the internet has become a way of keeping the idle young amused.
As you can see in the Type III photo above, these tabulators had a fixed wiring panel, requiring the machine itself to be rewired for every new job, keeping it idle for extended periods.
The fees which private employment offices must charge are barriers which prevent the proper flow of labor into the channels where it is needed and are a direct influence in keeping men idle.
It's terrible on all counts; but the most offensive thing intellectually is the incredible fallacy of claiming that higher capital requirements for banks amount to keeping resources idle.
It begins with a restless and fatalistic Miyazaki, keeping his idle hands busy with sketches, strong coffee, and cigarettes.
But instead of Dan Fouts keeping him idle, it was a little-known quarterback named Buck Belue who kept Luther on the sidelines Monday night.
Most people understand that keeping young people idle carries a heavy price for families and taxpayers alike.
