How, I ask, does Ms Teather feel about the hypothetical possibility that she'll have to defend academies in the Commons, should Mr Gove be indisposed?
It might be an issue in Israel, where its militarized society is indisposed to try to understand the motives of those who don't serve.
Disella Larusdottir, a soprano who had been reliably breathtaking at every earlier stage of the competition, had lost some of the "float" to her tone — she may have been indisposed — and failed to advance.
One 16th-century machine promised to spare "those who are indisposed and tormented by gout" the trouble of lifting their books.
The trouble with those expedients is that some of us are indisposed to have a drink at five-thirty when dinner is scheduled for six and the lecture for eight.
The judges may feel that PJ Harvey deserves to collect an award after being indisposed in 2001 and that the "first artist to win twice" would make a good story.
Not until she had passed away did he reveal, in The Oldie, how he fielded calls of commiseration to "Dove" Cooper from fellow comics such as Eric Morecambe, Michael Parkinson, Barry Cryer and Ronnie Barker, assuming a butler-like tone to tell them: "Mrs Cooper is indisposed".
An insert in the program announced he would not be singing; an announcement before the show contradicted this; and one inferred that he was indisposed, decided to give it a try anyway, and once onstage, having cracked hideously and repeatedly in the introduction to his big aria, pulled himself together to deliver the aria itself without mishap.
"President Obama would have loved to see President Mandela, but he is indisposed," said Maite Nkoane Mashebane, South Africa's minister of international relations, according to Agence France-Presse.
I asked Jack Straw to make the parliamentary statement on Europe the next day in place of Tony, and we had a debate on what should happen to the nuclear button while he was indisposed.
