Sentence examples for stand idle for from inspiring English sources

But an EMF could stand idle for even longer before it saw action.

Many of GM's factories will stand idle for an extended shutdown of up to nine weeks this summer.

Thanks to sanctions, the walls of Iraqi irrigation channels are caving in, pumps stand idle for lack of parts and thick frosts of salt coat many fields.

The precious resource which is the local school will not stand idle for many weeks of the year as it does currently.

But the lion's share of the payments, which come from consumer bills, are going to keeping existing power plants - such as polluting coal - on the system, paying them to stand idle for much of the year, the Energy and Climate Change (ECC) committee warned.

In particular, many biofuel production plants operate seasonally and stand idle for several months of the year, and this is unsatisfactory as it denotes an inefficient use of capital as well as providing only intermittent employment for workers.

Often the facilities stood idle for years until officials decided to use them, he said.

Farm fields that stood idle for years under EU schemes to prevent overproduction, such as the one across the road from the RSPB, have been conscripted back into active service.

Shopkeepers and stallholders on the usually bustling Omar Mukhtar street stand idle, except for the jewellers who field steady trickles of people wanting to sell wedding rings and family silver.

Its chosen contractor will remove some of the nastiest waste and demolish superfluous buildings, but will not have to dismantle the reactors themselves, which will stand idle, and toxic, for up to 70 years.That will give some of the remaining radiation time to dissipate, making the final demolition a little easier.

Republicans cannot simply stand idle and wait for the Democrats to meet them halfway, instead they must also be pragmatic and create an atmosphere of teamwork; they must compromise.