1 Half these factories now stand idle.

2 The pumps are standing idle.

3 The whole team stood idle , waiting for the mechanic.

4 Most of the factory stood idle during the strike.

5 Due to the strike, many of GM's factories stood idle.

6 No one is ever standing idle waiting for something to do.

7 The Mirror Group, for one, invested heavily in plant that stood idle.

8 The pile drivers stood idle in the darkness, gray silhouettes like horses sleeping upright in a field.

9 It stood idle for some time, eventually being sold in 1897 and demolished a year or so later.

10 Don't let the machine stand idle!

11 Don't let the personal computer stand idle.

12 Governments can no longer stand idle.

13 I won't stand idle though, and I will launch a new project -- a SAX handler compiler -- in the next column.

14 Could you stand idle when the house was on fire?

15 We say we believe in equal opportunity but then stand idle while millions of American children languish in poverty.

16 In his acceptance speech, he said he would not stand idle in the face of threats to American people.

17 With their land gone, few can afford it, and the dishes and bikes stand idle.

18 I face the world as it is, and cannot stand idle in the face of threats to the American people.

19 Though Wenzhou's streets rumble round-the-clock with heavy truck traffic and its skyline is studded with cranes, many workshops and smaller factories stand idle and padlocked.

1 Half these factories now stand idle.