Sentence examples for documents waiting from inspiring English sources

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I wasted an hour a few weeks ago looking for a report that was hiding in a pile of documents waiting to be filed.

Since 1951, he has owned the business, which is still called Harwitt Bindery, and he operates out of a large basement room filled with dusty machines and documents waiting to be repaired.

One evening in 1970, a young Navy lieutenant found himself outside the White House Situation Room with a parcel of sensitive Pentagon documents, waiting for someone to sign for them.

By David Remnick One evening in 1970, a young Navy lieutenant found himself outside the White House Situation Room with a parcel of sensitive Pentagon documents, waiting for someone to sign for them.

Whatever your political pieties, if your freshman daughter's passport had just been stolen in Ecuador, the boy who answered the senator's phone never tried, "Can we get back to you next week on this?" Staff members stayed on the line until the embassy had been informed, until you could give your sobbing girl precise directions to replacement documents waiting there in Quito.

At the office of the rural development agency in the village of Seke, several miles from here, voters stood in line today, clutching their identity documents, waiting to cast their ballots by candlelight in the dark, drafty interior of an unlighted building.

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Lawyers holding folders fat with documents waited to do battle in behalf of their clients, the city's politicians and their would-be challengers.

Also, Mr. Tsarnaev, with no apparent sense of urgency about his travel documents, waited months to apply for a Russian passport, and returned to the United States before the passport was ready for him.

Outside the institute, families clutching documents wait for news; inside, bodies - or fragments of bodies - are painstakingly being analysed.

Meanwhile, the Mayor's Great Outdoors document waits patiently here.

"Imagine if, before you traveled somewhere, you had to fly to another city to get permission to get a document, wait in line for hours, bring a financial statement of your net worth and everything you own, pay $100, wait a month, and then get a yes or no, with no explanation why," he said.

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