After years of apparent inactivity, master cat-burglar The Ghost is back with a series of thefts.

Some sections of the press attacked Campbell for his apparent inactivity during the crisis, while other voices within the legal and political world supported his course of action.

But this month of apparent inactivity was only a feint.

I considered that other people would hardly find my apparent inactivity to be in the least interesting, but kept that opinion to myself.

But those weeks of apparent inactivity weren't entirely fruitless!

The body, stunned by its own apparent inactivity, sensed the shock-wave.

Many bees spend large portions of their lives in apparent inactivity, they note.

The subject had for many years been turned about in the poet's mind, which, of course, was busy in these years of apparent inactivity.

Two decades later the perpetrator of these crimes was named Grim Sleeper due to a long period of apparent inactivity between crimes.

In each case it is reproached with the apparent inactivity which it causes to labour.