Exploring the role of alpha oscillations during externally vs. internally directed attention and the implications for idling and inhibition hypotheses.
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I can hardly agree that if there is idling it can be for lack of sustenance.
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I do not want to say that they are all idling and slacking; that would be wicked, and it would be untrue.
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They did not allow me time for idling on the way.
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Regarding the problem of labour there have been allegations that workpeople are idling.
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A private individual would not have a lot of wasters idling their time away, because he could not afford it.
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Do they then record at the time when the engine is merely idling, but the vehicle standing still?
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What sense is there in old men remaining at work, while young men are idling about the street corners?
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Another matter to be addressed is vehicle idling.
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The men who are now out, idling, want to be back in uniform, doing their duty to the country.
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A lot of that idling among workmen, which is unfairly described, is the idling of people who are overworked.
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Most pollution caused by vehicles occurs when they are idling in traffic jams and then moving forward a few yards.
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I regret to say, delinquent young people who are unfortunately idling in the market place.
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Instead, they have sat back and idled their time away.
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They see men idling, and men drawing out their work on board ships to get overtime and draw very high wages—far higher wages than anything they could possibly earn themselves.
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