Lethargy (general disinterest in life, lying down a lot).
Frankly, it is arrogant for him to lay down conditions for a post-election before a single vote has been cast.
Whatever one thinks about the wording of the first three articles, it is hard to gainsay what they aspire to lay down as minimum conditions for a human life worth the name.
8 April 2012: Amid international scepticism that Assad is committed to ending the violence and after some of the deadliest assaults yet on opposition fighters, the Syrian regime puts new conditions on the ceasefire, including that rebel fighters agree in writing to lay down their weapons – conditions rejected by the opposition.
Moreover, if Western donors or investors try to lay down conditions on such matters, African leaders have become adept at threatening to "go east".
NTT, however, may lay down its own conditions.
Lie back in a chair or lay down on a bed.
Promises made on the battlefield to lay down arms on the condition that the opponent will not harm one are also made under severe duress.
We each lay down in a bunk.
(2) Aimed at building a moral community, of peace, order & justice, the Charter fails to lay down rules of conduct as a condition of membership.
32 It was, however, possible for a cemetery authority to lay down, as one of the conditions governing burials in their cemetery, that the body of a stillborn child would not be buried there unless a certificate by a doctor or certified midwife was furnished to the cemetery superintendent, and practice seems to have varied widely on this matter.
