English example sentences with "inertia"

Inertia is an important governing law.

Never underestimate the power of inertia.

In the U.S., businesses say they also encounter regulatory obstacles, which some put down to bureaucratic inertia, others to lack of imaginative thinking.

Of two balls of the same size (one made of iron, the other of wood) falling from the top of a tower, the iron one, because it has a greater gravitational charge (being heavier), is attracted with greater force, but, on the other hand, precisely because it has more mass (inertia), it offers greater resistance to falling. The result: both touch the ground at the same time, as Galileo demonstrated.

I live by inertia.

Inertia is inherent in any material object.

He continued to live as if by inertia.

She continued to live as if by inertia.

Inertia kills you in this world.