India’s recent torpor has underpinned a remarkable shift inglobal opinion.

Other senior Libyan officials suffer from the samemanagerial torpor.

This intellectual torpor may be sufficient to earn you a job in some disaster-prone part of the world

I picked up the board and dumped the pieces on his head... as an object lesson to shake him outta his vegetable torpor.

I picked up the board and dumped the pieces on his head as an object lesson to shake him out of his vegetable torpor.

By showing Europe that it is following its actions fromabove, the US will once again force Europeans to awaken from theirpolitical torpor and strategic mediocrity.

Mephistopheles is rather a joker. So is America, alwaysstirring sleepy societies out of their torpor – a role begun when Commodore Matthew Perry “opened up” Japan in 1854.

The United States representative ought to have awoken from his political torpor and refrained from delivering sermons at the very time when 185 Member States had voted against the embargo imposed by the United States on Cuba.

First, during the discussions in the first part of the session, my delegation nurtured the hope that the Conference would at last emerge from the torpor in which it has remained for more than a decade.

The fears of many in our region that the struggle for energy security is damning the poorest of the world's inhabitants to political and economic torpor drives this belief in the need for increased communication on many levels.