Slowness to react

Usage examples of inertia.

The neighbours acquiesced in the inertia - but the foetor none the less formed an additional count against the place.

It took Varro Lucullus and his six lictors to drag Caesar off him, though some men in the crowd wondered afterward at the inertia of the nine tribunes of the plebs, who made no move to help Hybrida at all.

I knew what his plan was: use his maneuverability against my speed, catch me when my inertia was too great to let me turn away from him.

A group of civilians caromed out with the spastic overcorrections of folk who thought of gravity, not inertia, when they moved.

In theory to allow children and adolescents undistracted time for their studies and premilitary training, although she suspected it was just as much a simple case of institutional inertia: the system worked well and nobody had reason enough to push for a change.

Liber VI Gaius Iulius Caesar post 52 Prooemium I Coactus assiduis tuis vocibus, Balbe, cum cotidiana mea recusatio non difficultatis excusationem, sed inertiae videretur deprecationem habere, rem difficillimam suscepi.

Liber VIII Aulus Hirtius post 52 Prooemium I Coactus assiduis tuis vocibus, Balbe, cum cotidiana mea recusatio non difficultatis excusationem, sed inertiae videretur deprecationem habere, rem difficillimam suscepi.

To deal with the incumbent in power is the easiest course and the inertia of policy in foreign affairs resists the effort to change or take chances.

The slug stops, but it seems to do so reluctantly, as if it has come alive, and part of its liveliness is a resentment of the physical law which deals with inertia.

We also have some of our broadcasts printed as pamphlets in India and sold for a few annas, a thing that could be useful but is terribly hard to organize in the face of official inertia and obstruction.

American Governors had all the customs, all the inertia of the age-long past with which to battle in every field.

The guaranties offered the state or authority are ample, because it has not only conscience, moral sentiment, interest, habit, and the via inertia of the mass, but the whole physical force of the nation, at its command.

Daily she watched what she was doing to herself and was appalled, but inertia overweighed everything and nothing changed.

Troy struck and rebounded, starting to spin off into space again, but he managed to grapple one of the top towers, swinging around until he finally damped his inertia.

In bodies subject to gravity, this tendency reveals itself as their inertia.