Sentence examples for much idleness from inspiring English sources

"There's far too much idleness, and that's the thing that concerns me the most," he said.

For example, too much idleness would trigger a depressive episode.

People would have been in their traditional homes... the laziness common in our people is linked to what happened to them... there was too much idleness and taking alcohol... insecurity made it hard to go back to villages to dig... Concentration of many people in IDP camps was associated with too much idleness.

"The practice goes back to the thirties, when Church leaders were worried as much about idleness as about the lack of resources," Harold Brown, the managing director of L.D.S. Welfare Services, told me.

We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness, three times as much by our Pride, and four times as much by our Folly, and from these Taxes the Commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing an Abatement.

Taxes are bad, true, but "we are taxed twice as much by our Idleness, three times as much by our Pride, and four times as much by our Folly".

"Busy people at both ends of the political spectrum do not seem to have as much time for idleness," wrote Bauman in the report, which was published by The BMJ.

Busy people at both ends of the political spectrum do not seem to have as much time for idleness.

"Smugglers don't have work 10 months of the year, so they don't have much to do, and that idleness causes addiction," Mr. Ghobadi said.

For Mrs. Balogun, a Muslim who fled Nigeria with her husband when both of his parents were killed by Christians who then came looking for them, her exile to Birr has meant long days of idleness, with too much time to fret about the future.

"In my family we were never idle, partly because idleness was a sin, partly because there was so much work to be done, and partly no doubt we were just that sort of people".