Sentence examples for quite dormant from inspiring English sources

"The United States used to be major obstacle to Israeli expansion — now the United States is quite dormant," he said.

The public largely ignored the album of course, but it had sold "encouragingly" if nothing else and who could blame a highly elated Nick Drake, whose academic leanings had long become quite dormant anyway, for leaving Cambridge to pursue his musical bent?

Japan's telco market is quite dormant, with mature, oligopolistic companies charging some of the highest prices on the planet for mobile service.

He was forced to take down his umbrella, and paddle, recalling later that "the winds that day were too civil by half, and the sleepless bay almost quite dormant".

Yet the nearly $400 million industry is not quite as dormant as the best-seller list, or a trip to Wal-Mart's toy aisle, may imply.

Moreover, it transpired, after Mr Netanyahu's departure from office, that the Israeli-Syrian track was not quite as dormant during his three-year tenure as had been widely believed.

Though the animal protection movement in Westchester was dormant for quite some time, with this same small group of concerned activists we have accomplished enormous changes for the animals, such as getting turtle races out of local bars and in Van Cordtlandt Manor, as your article mentions.

Dormant individuals do not shed, but quite often this is one of the first events to take place after the end of dormancy.

While a very important study we believe that these samples may be quite heterogeneous and might not entirely reflect the dormant phase.

Of course he'd got the tan gene and the straight-hair gene and the lean gene, genes that were long dormant in their parents, though pictures proved that they had once been quite the pair.

"The playability is quite different," said club member Lynne Dozer, 66. "If we have to have the dormant Bermuda to get through this water crisis, fine.