Sentence examples for kept idle from inspiring English sources

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.

The 293.5m (963ft) long liner is being kept idle but in a seaworthy condition in the inner harbour in Port Rashid.

Binary variables indicate whether a block should be activated, i.e. one of the available setup families should be assigned to it, or the block should be kept idle.

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.

The backoff counter is decremented in terms of slot time when the channel keeps idle.

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

Only if the channel continually keeps idle for DIFS, the device can access the channel for transmission.