Sentence examples for pool of idle from inspiring English sources

A pool of idle workers, though not officially looking for jobs, stops those in work from pushing for better pay, since they are worried that their employers will replace them.

Its large pool of idle youths, with their liking for the fierier brands of Islam, have made the kingdom a wellspring of extremism, most famously producing Osama bin Laden and three-quarters of the September 11th 2001 hijackers.

But at the same time, it is desirable that collectively all SUs sense all the primary channels to maximize the pool of idle channels available to SUs.

Strangely they missed the real boat here, which is that the 3 million jobs created in 2011, through indeed the most since 2005, is actually a low number for an economy with a massive pool of idle labor that needs catch-up growth to regain full employment.

Thaker and Williamson suggest that increased levels of inequality create the preconditions for crises: high levels of unsustainable private debt as people struggle to maintain lifestyle; large pools of "idle wealth" that increase demand for overly complex financial instruments; and disproportionate political power for the elites, which can affect stability.

Previous studies we conducted have demonstrated the benefits of such bi-modal resource organization that combines small pools of dedicated computers with a very large pool of opportunistic computing capacities of idle computers to serve high throughput computing applications.

In the backyard, the disused swimming pool sits idle.

The gratification of idle curiosity?

The result is lots of idle poor.

In a city of idle or semi-idle factories, this still sounds ambitious.

It was also the work of idle hands.