Sentence examples for maintain idle from inspiring English sources

Grey Wolf Inc., which drills oil and natural gas wells in the United States, said today that it would sell about $52 million in common stock to help it buy drilling equipment and maintain idle rigs.

Wind and solar energy's unsteady nature challenges electrical utilities, which have to maintain idle capacity to compensate--a spinningd spinning reserve--which costs the companies money.

At the moment, organizers are adamant in maintaining Idle No More as a grassroots movement lead horizontally by the people and not First Nations chiefs.

The patients were requested to maintain an idle position for at least 10 min in a temperature-controlled room.

When at a stop, only give the car enough gas to maintain its idle RPM when you are easing off the clutch.

Fare boxes and turnstiles have to be maintained; buses idle while waiting for passengers to pay up, wasting fuel; and everyone loses time.

Sensor nodes maintain in the idle mode, and only the cluster head beacons regularly for the purpose of minimizing power consumption.

In 1998 it took us almost two years to get things back to normal .Even so, the Saudis not only sit atop the cheapest and largest reserves of oil in the world, but remain the only country willing to maintain large amounts of idle capacity—something profit-minded Russian oilmen such as Yukos's Mr Kukes would never do.

Also, cases in which idle users maintain a low bit rate connection with the access network, can be modelled by using a high value for α.

Idle maintains that "The Meaning of Life," with its wonderful musical number "Every Sperm Is Sacred," is their most offensive film, but that probably says more about "Life of Brian" than it does about "The Meaning of Life".

It took Kanika Tekriwal, CEO and co-founder of JetSetGo, $100 to start a 20-month-old service that maintains and rents idle private aircraft, mostly in India.