Sentence examples for relatively idle from inspiring English sources

Drinking -- or at least relatively idle drinking -- is passé, or at least looked down upon.

Keeping all employees relatively idle while reducing their pay or cutting their working hours will hurt everyone.

The re-indexing then occurs when the computer is relatively idle, which ensures that maintaining the file database does not overpower the system.

Since a peace treaty was signed with Israel in 1979, military industries have expanded in part to keep a relatively idle officer corps content.

New York has had a similar radio system since the 1990's, but because of a long tradition of interservice rivalry and secrecy, it lay relatively idle on 9/11.

"It's not good for the environment, and it's not good for the tourist sector, which has to invest all this money for a few weeks of craziness and then is relatively idle the rest of the year," he said.

Finally, administrative assistants have fewer gaps between their tasks at the start and the end of workflow, with but has relatively longer idle time in the middle of the workflow.

That would put more trucks on the road when other traffic is relatively light -- and they would cause less pollution because they would spend less time idling outside the port.

The insensitivity of map length to the type of marker also suggests that the 51 mapped IDLE transposons were relatively stable, because excision of an IDLE in members of the mapping population would result in the wrong parental origin being assigned to its locus and an over-estimation of recombination frequencies.

A "road trip" on the highway is the ideal case since you can maintain a relatively steady speed, not be idling at stop signs/lights very often, and not be restarting your vehicle too often.

It was quickly realized that this was an inefficient use of resources, particularly as the CPU was largely idle while waiting for relatively slow I/O devices to finish tasks such as reading and writing data.