Today, the El Dorado mine stands dormant, and many are intent to keep it that way.
"A year ago, this would have been full of employees," Michael Knobloch, Hawe's director of marketing, said as he stood between dormant sorters.
The concrete skeletons of the Shangri-La, Sheraton, Traders and St. Regis hotels stand idle, dormant since their developer, Las Vegas Sands, ran into financial trouble.
He paid £8 for a hi-vis reflective jacket on which he had printed "lift please – no buses", and stood at the largely dormant bus stop with his thumb out hoping to be picked up.
Perhaps that rooster crow will be a wake up call to a party whose ideas have long been dormant: stand up and offer real solutions or reconcile yourselves to a lifetime in the minority.
My childhood enthusiasm had lain dormant since I stood in a classroom burning a peanut under a test tube to discover the energy within.
When Bushie and others stood up to address their dysfunctionality and rescue their children, they reached for the old ceremonies and teachings, which had been dormant for at least half a century.
Olympic envy seeped into our very bones again during the last few weeks, and the long-dormant urge to stand atop the podium of winning cities is stirring new thoughts of regional glory.
This is a violation of the dormant commerce clause, which stands for the following rule: Congress has sole power over interstate commerce therefore states cannot enact legislation that burdens said commerce.
One violist, she told me as we wound through a grove of music stands and gleaming, dormant instruments, complained to the director about the scent of her hairspray.
