Sentence examples for working and idle from inspiring English sources

"It was like a little film," he said later.He picked images of Americans rich and poor, working and idle, northern, southern and western.

This can be achieved by alternating working and idle nodes.

Creating level playing fields by taxing away wealth just erodes the incentive to innovate and take risks, indulges those too idle to work, and hurts everyone in the end by lowering rates of economic growth.

He has put most of his idle cash to work and is almost fully invested in equities, but don't expect a banner year.

Noting that it was a way to keep the orchestra working during idle weeks, he said, "We're trying to find a way to continue it".

The service system is subject to random breakdowns in working or idle state.

The project's global patchwork of processors, working at odd hours and idle moments, already has logged more than 100,000 years of computing time.

For years she had been productive at work and as idle as anything in the evenings.

When working in the idle mode, the UE returns its reserved resources to the network via a resource modification process.

The reasons which are brought forward by the peasants to justify their breaking up of Undivided Households are generally the following: Non-division, they say, causes the able and laborious to work for the idle and incapable.

With free wi-fi on the train, they were hunched over their laptops and smartphones, busy working rather than idling away the journey.