There was some idle talk, a listless discussion of this or that small happening during the day's drive.

When abbots dined in their own private hall, the Rule of St Benedict charged them to invite their monks to their table, provided there was room, on which occasions the guests were to abstain from quarrels, slanderous talk and idle gossiping.

The word ' hockey ' itself was recorded in 1363 when Edward III of England issued the proclamation: " oreover we ordain that you prohibit under penalty of imprisonment all and sundry from such stone, wood and iron throwing ; handball, football, or hockey ; coursing and cock-fighting, or other such idle games.

It was no idle vision, for after three days the acute pain of his injury brought his end.

He delighted in the folklore of this remote district, and became, as he himself tells us, a ‘ tale-teller .’ The ‘ applause of my companions ,’ he says, ‘ was my recompense for punishments incurred for being idle .’ These conditions developed a love of poetry and the composition of verses and ballads.

If any one of the sides makes the bung reach that end of the churchyard it is victorious .” The actual word hockey was mentioned centuries before, in 1363, when King Edward III of England issued a declaration banning a list of games: " moreover we ordain that you prohibit under penalty of imprisonment all and sundry from such stone, wood and iron throwing ; handball, football, or hockey ; coursing and cock-fighting, or other such idle games.

Jeroboam's reign was also the period of the prophets Hosea, Joel, Jonah and Amos, all of whom condemned the materialism and selfishness of the Israelite elite of their day: " Woe unto those who lie upon beds of ivory ... eat lambs from the flock and calves ... sing idle songs ..." The book of Kings, written a century later condemns Jeroboam for doing " evil in the eyes of the Lord ", meaning both the oppression of the poor and his continuing support of the cult centres of Dan and Bethel, in opposition to the temple in Jerusalem.

Nicholas Balabkins concludes that " as long as German industrial capacity was kept idle the economic recovery of Europe was delayed " and that " To nurse Europe back to economic health the Marshall Plan scrapped the early postwar economic chains of Germany.

Mehmed III was an idle ruler, leaving government to his mother Safiye Sultan, the valide sultan.

After starting the engine with a known setting that allowed it to idle, the air valve was opened until maximum engine speed was obtained.

Dozens of public buses stood idle for months, severely damaging the bus transit company's finances, until the city repealed its law requiring segregation on public buses following the US Supreme Court ruling that it was unconstitutional.

The game was left briefly idle until the publication of GURPS Traveller.

This was because users might have long periods of entering code while the computer remained idle.

NULL / BLANK was used as an idle code for when no messages were being sent.

This was called the idle condition, and the plate current at this point the " idle current ".

" It was not an idle boast ; post-war records confirmed that no Abwehr agents went unnoticed.

As a result of this approach the ZX80 could only generate a picture when it was idle, i. e. waiting for a key to be pressed.

Multiplexing multiple telecommunications connections over the same physical conductor has been possible for a long time, but nonetheless each channel on the multiplexed link was either dedicated to one call at a time, or it was idle between calls.

The link principle was more efficient, but required a more complex control system to find idle links through the switching fabric.

The colonial use of traditional law and structures of power was thus an integral part of the process of colonial domination ( Young 1994 ; Penvenne 1995 ; O ' Laughlin 2000 ) obsessed with the maximization of economic development and growth through the use of idle or unproductive African workforce.

But her mother would rebuke her if she mentioned it, and say that it was none of her concern.

There was a gentle concern in Benson's voice.

The formal displacement of the geocentric principle far from being Copernicus' primary concern, was introduced only to resolve what seemed to him intolerable in orthodox astronomy, namely, the ' unphysical ' triplication of centric reference-points: one center from which the planet's distances were calculated, another around which planetary velocities were computed, and still a third center ( the earth ) from which the observations originated.

The sneers at Hearst changed to concern when it was seen that he had strong support in many parts of the country.

At no time does he seem to have proposed marriage, and Mrs. King was evidently torn between a concern for her daughter's emotions and the desire to believe that the friendship might be continued without harm to her reputation.

Katherine Douglas King '' The invitation was accepted and other letters followed, in which she spoke of her concern for his health and her delight in seeing him so much at home among the crippled children she served.

In later years Josephus Daniels was to claim that World War 1, was the first in American history in which there was great concern for both the health and morals of our soldiers.

The concern they felt for me was such as I shall never forget and for which I will always be grateful.

The establishment, by the Holy Father, of a permanent Secretariat for Christian Unity in 1960 was the most dramatic mark of this concern.

And John's reply was always the same: `` Anything that affects souls is the concern of the Church!!

But there was no need, he remembered, for his hand to reach out, for his face to show concern or stoicism.

This has survived the years but there has been considerable concern among the tenants over the fact that the oil was not metered.

As a result, it was decided that a mail questionnaire sent to a large number of companies would be more effective in determining the general practices and opinions of small firms and in highlighting some of the fundamental and recurring problems of defense procurement that concern both industry and government.

The dated poems suggest that while Hardy's concern with poetry may have been constant, his production was not.

Her concern for the natives of Borrioboola-Gha was so intense that she quite forgot and neglected her son Peepy!!

This was going to be it now, any second, and what he had to remember was to keep his eye on the razor, no matter what, even if Roberts should feint with a kick to the groin, the deadly hand was his exclusive concern.

Hank was beginning to feel sharp concern for Mr. Black.

And now she was feeling sick, both from concern about Stanley and hunger.

On Monday, the Hughes concern was formally declared bankrupt after its directors indicated they could not draw up a plan for reorganization.

The tragic irony of the play is that the very belief in and concern with a devil who could be met in the woods and combatted with formulae set out in books was the very thing that prevented them from detecting the real devil when he came among them.

It's the old story, war or no war, and more than one viewer may recall Hollywood's `` Titanic '', several seasons back, when the paramount concern was for the marital discord of a society dilettante.