The real theme is the undermining of male self-confidence brought about by long-term idleness.
The rest of us will be painting those picket fences in lieu of idleness.
Many Singaporeans are wedded to their jobs and look askance at idleness of any kind.
IDAB's enforced idleness is a pretty good indicator of a drastic slowing of foreign investment into Britain.
For the economy to thrive, it must channel greed, reward responsibility and cease encouraging covetousness or idleness.
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The electric light bulb has made darkness optional, eliminating the enforced idleness that used to begin at sunset.
While patience is steadfastness and self-control in the face of provocation and delay, it is definitely not idleness.
Mohsen doesn't know where to go or what to do with his idleness.
Idleness is a threat, however, in an era of performance targets, highly publicised literacy drives and international league tables.
Conservative welfare reform would replace a system designed to subsidize idleness and dysfunction with a combination of opportunity and credit.
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To William Beveridge it was about eradicating evil - the "giant evils" of squalor, ignorance, want, idleness and disease.
This idleness feeds the maras: in El Salvador some 800 juveniles languish in jail, more than double the number in 2004.
First, it tried to accelerate the processing of asylum claims so people are not condemned to idleness for months or even years.
From artificially low interest rates and devalued dollars to fiscal deficits rewarding idleness, federal policies prodded us from savers to borrowers and from producers to consumers.
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The good news is that, having largely won the battle against idleness and dependency, America is now in a much better position to attack poverty head on.
With the idleness known only to childless couples on vacation, we'd squandered humid hours trying out vintage saxophones in the unventilated antique stores of a Hudson River town.
In those same days I was studying Spanish, reading screen plays and looking at other interests that might become passions of mine, but the objective is not idleness.
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Rejecting idleness, Anixter and his dad launched Anicom in 1993.
But the larger point, as Engel puts it, is the "sloppy loss of our own distinctive phraseology through sheer idleness, lack of self-awareness and our attitude of cultural cringe".
Hacker ethics rejected a capitalistic, profit-oriented approach to work, eschewing idleness but favoring a flexible, creative approach that was respectful of the human dimension and natural rhythms, he said.
If the freedoms and social benefits that Europeans have won since the creation of the EU must come at the expense of mass idleness, then the project has already failed.
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Modern economists have raised similar concerns about today's redistributive welfare states: by subtracting from the rewards of work and adding to the consolations of idleness, social transfers sap economies of their vigour.
" In his popular essay, "In Praise of Idleness, " the 20th century philosopher, Bertrand Russell, lamented modern man's loss of his capacity for play, seeing it as having been erased by the "cult of efficiency.
Early in the Tour, Wiggins raged about anonymous skeptics on Twitter, chiding them for "bone-idleness, " but later in the race he wrote a piece in The Guardian in which he described his cycling ascension and his rejection of performance-enhancing drugs.
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On Saturday, Mr Clegg will be paying homage to the left of his party, the social democratic group Social Liberal Forum, when he delivers the annual Beveridge lecture on the "five giant evils" - squalor, ignorance, want, idleness and disease.
The objective was never idleness.
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The middle classes did not start to take holidays in a big way until the late 19th century, at a time when the values that mattered were still industry and discipline, and when leisure and idleness were perceived as sources of moral, spiritual, financial and political danger.
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