Sentences with phrase «sit idle waiting»

No longer do you have to sit idle waiting for love to come find you, you can now be proactive about searching for lasting love with the use of these online dating websites.

There's never really a good time for a major appliance or home repair, so when they do happen there's really no choice other than dealing with it promptly — but how many of us have enough cash just sitting idle waiting for us to need it?

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I can recall waiting in line with my late father for hours to get a tank full of gas because shortages were so widespread that refineries around the country sat idle.

Canadian Western Bank is also embarking on a diversification strategy so that it's less reliant on Alberta's economy, which shows the company isn't sitting idle, waiting for oil prices to recover — though a rebound would surely help.

We sit idle and «wait and see» what bargains we can nab from any domino effect transfers.

His aides went so far as to charter a plane that sat idling on the tarmac of the Albany airport, waiting to take the governor to New Hampshire to file as a candidate.

«There is nothing as insulting as wealthy cabinet ministers dishing out tax breaks to the super-wealthy, allowing massive assets to sit idle in bank accounts doing nothing for the common good, yet working people wait in fear for the letter telling them the government is cutting their income and ponder joining the foodbank queue.»

As cars sat idle, waiting in line, employee productivity would plummet.