| Ballot boxes will be left to gather dust in the June elections, as every vote will be cast by post. |
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| General purpose home computers will gather dust as special purpose machines with cool designs and unbreakable software take over. |
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| She was just a collection of old memories, mostly unpleasant, that belonged in a shoebox beneath my bed, a haven to gather dust. |
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| For example, consider the dark corner of an antiques store where stacks of pictures gather dust. |
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| Rather than let them gather dust, management decided to increase revenue by hiring them out. |
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| Are we one of the innovators taking on disengagement by the horns or are we one of those happy to gather dust? |
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| However, government studies recommending concrete measures to improve the lives of indigenous women gather dust on the shelves. |
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| It isn't some lofty document destined to gather dust on shelves in government offices. |
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| The issue, however, is far too important to be left on the shelf to gather dust. |
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| To let it gather dust in archives is equivalent to throwing longstanding know-how into the bin. |
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| This report was not destined to gather dust on a shelf like so many other wellintentioned missives from other organizations. |
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| He expected the 120-page academic paper to gather dust at a campus library, he said. |
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| It is common practice after all for supermarkets to sell particular items at a discount when their stock on those items begins to gather dust. |
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| We cannot proudly publish such works and let them gather dust on bookshelves. |
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| The excellent no-fault compensation report drafted many years ago by the Manitoba Law Reform Commission serves only to gather dust. |
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| Surely such a bunch of worthies most of them retired would simply produce yet another platitudinous report, doomed to gather dust. |
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| You will be in good company: it has already been rejected in the Council, so the dossier is destined to gather dust on a top shelf somewhere. |
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| Aboriginal people came before the Commission with a question: Can you promise us that your recommendations won't just gather dust on a shelf? |
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| And who else would let them gather dust in some drawer for nearly 50 years? |
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| Perfume bottles and weathered papyrus replicas gather dust in the grubby window displays of the empty shops. |
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| How many others do more than just toss the third-class postal announcements or e-mail newsletters or let their bumper stickers and buttons gather dust on a shelf? |
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| And they gather dust, which Mrs. Schloss doesn't remove. |
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| Having set it up, I hope the Commission actually makes use of it and therefore does not just allow it to sit around in the corridors and gather dust. |
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| Too many great ideas gather dust because of haphazard implementation. |
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| I will consult his writings to draw a picture, admittedly incomplete, of someone who added to the glory of our Congregation but who unfortunately is often forgotten and whose writings gather dust on our bookshelves. |
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| Lastly, with regard to the energy sector, I do not think we can talk about financial support just for project studies, because more often than not they are left to gather dust and, in my view, are another waste of resources. |
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| Even despite that, when the secretariat of the North American commission has come forward with a very thoughtful, independently prepared report, the recommendations simply gather dust. |
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| The teachers had to translate the material themselves to pass it on to their students, whose textbooks did nothing but gather dust on the shelves. |
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| Do you not rather think that, if we create some sort of Mediterranean Bank, the money will gather dust in it and as little will find its way to the region as has done in the past? |
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| Bottles of Spanish wine gather dust in a small window. |
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| Taxis that ferried migrants to the mountains now gather dust. |
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| I reiterate that the gist of this motion is to not let lie that report to gather dust on some shelf somewhere in this precinct when we can gain knowledge and insight into what hopefully could be prevented in the future. |
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| Things do have a horror, they pile up, gather dust. |
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| Without appropriate communication, research results gather dust on a shelf, and the time, effort and money that went into the project is largely wasted. |
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