The legalization of marijuana in Colorado and Washington State energized reformers as never before, and caused those outside the movement to sit up and take notice.
Raines, a long shot to make the Yankees, will undergo surgery for an infection in his gums Monday, and the medication may cause him to sit out as many as five or six games.
They worry that the party has not figured out how to position itself against him, and they fear that partywide ennui will cause contributors to sit on their wallets.
A badger can smell a print left on the ground hours earlier, and any unfamiliar noise can cause it to sit tight in its underground citadel for days if necessary.
It can cause them to "sit on the sidelines" too long while investment opportunities pass them by.
A candidate who has a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in geophysics and graduated summa cum laude from Vassar College will cause anyone to sit up and take notice.
Dillard spent a year in the close confines of Tinker Creek, a stream in West Virginia, where she spent her days walking its course and the local pond it fed and to cause herself to sit silent and near, to see the beautiful, changing aspect of the flora and the active, sometime violent interactions between the resident fauna.
Adding extra pillows or cushions will cause you to sit unevenly, distributing your weight and pressure unevenly which is unhealthy for your back.
You can see exactly why it caused publishers to sit up.
The news, Mr. Arpey later recalled, caused him to sit, stunned, at his desk for 30 seconds.
