Call center employees are, oddly enough, accustomed to dealing only with live humans, and some hang up on the message.
My early years in Ibadan are still some of my fondest memories mainly because of the British Council library, a Borgesian labyrinth to my awestruck eyes, which became a veritable garden of forking paths for a teenager who had grown accustomed to never having enough books.
And ideally managers get accustomed to the format enough that learning starts to feel more like reading a story a friend sent via Messenger and less like a clunky, outdated training exercise.
"Lipstick Jungle" has some good things going for it, including actresses in roles that call for slightly more maturity than we're accustomed to, and juicy enough meanies to give it a little suspense.
There was feverish talk of robberies, photographers who refused to use taxis because they had been warned they were being targeted by criminals – but soon enough everyone grew accustomed to the crazy rhythm of things.
While they work hard to maintain the daily living conditions to which Harvard has become accustomed, they do not make enough money to keep their own families adequately housed and fed.
Most of them are old and narrow and can be really dangerous for visitors accustomed to roads being wide enough for two cars.
To get involved with a new social group, one has to get past the difficult threshold of attending the first meeting, and persevere long enough to become accustomed to the new setting.
Colonel Gaddafi was accustomed to appear in public wearing enough insignia on his chest to cover a dining table.
