Seldom has the movement of an object entailed so much waiting and worrying, friction and fuss.
Hallinan recalled that when he was hired in 1986, he was a one-man department and said the job entailed so much more now.
"Man," George says early in Act II, "I never would've come out if I'd known it would entail so much talking".
6.(C) According to Vishnyakov, MinFin understands that this MOSCOW 00000228 002 OF 002 would entail so much expense and difficulty for Visa and MasterCard that the two companies might quit the Russian domestic market.
Those of us who opposed the invasion of Iraq from the outset on the grounds that it was unnecessary, illegal and premature - and that no good cause could possibly entail so much lying - have been waiting grimly as our once-controversial convictions became orthodoxy.
In Guo Xiang's interpretation, nonaction stems from a profound discernment of the way of naturalness, which entails not so much doing less of certain things, as a mode of being and spirit of action guided by the principles of nature, according to which one performs all functions.
But Mr. Gross argues that building a company requires so much effort, and entails heartbreak, that it just didn't seem to be worth it unless Idealab companies were going to do something that mattered.
But if Bush's embrace of democracy in the Middle East turns out to have been merely gestural, and unable to withstand the long period of adversity that fulfilling it would entail, then he will look not so much cynical as callow.
"The fight against corruption entails no small amount of absurdity, since so much of the corruption these days occurs in broad daylight.
