The first study began in 1982, with a call for men and women from 18 to 30 who were totally inactive, with a lifetime history of being almost completely sedentary, but who were not particularly fat.

Because they are made of protein they are rapidly inactivated at temperatures over 50 C and certainly boiling would render any you put in a carp bait totally inactive.

The target of bombing apparently was the railway bridge, but the railway was totally inactive because destroyed in several points elsewhere.

Evidence is accumulating that the reproductive system is not totally inactive during the childhood years.

In the center of the desk is a telephone on which he makes occasional random calls so that the phone company won't register the line as totally inactive.

Their airfield seemed totally inactive, contradicting intelligence data that had looked very promising only a week before.

A possible change in polymorphic form of the active ingredient, rendering it less or totally inactive, or unstable.

However, Clapton sank into heroin addiction in 1971 and was inactive totally throughout 1972, as he became a recluse.

The special court judge also criticised Mysorewala's actions in investigation, and said that "Mysorewala and his force were totally inactive on all fronts and in every aspect."

For one thing, almost all the built-in safeguards, the circuits and sensors that would ordinarily keep the craft operating safely within its design parameters, were totally inactive.