Or maybe they believed their jobs were just too essential to leave for a half-hour - or even to take a few minutes with an absentee ballot -- to cast one vote out of millions, a task better left to those of us with less important things to do.
Many sellers seem to go to extra efforts to intimidate potential customers; they seem to think it's essential to leave several pages of threats (invariably in huge, colored fonts) to report non-paying bidders, and so on.
"In every case where the building's manager told us that something was essential to be left on, it was left on," Mr. Petta said.
Last week, the United States Embassy here urged all Americans who were not essential personnel to leave; thousands have already left or are planning to depart this week, embassy officials said.
After the bombings in Riyadh, the United States Embassy urged all employees not doing essential tasks to leave Saudi Arabia immediately, and a substantial number of the nearly 40,000 Americans who live in the kingdom have left.
"This destruction of infrastructure essential to life leaves the besieged, resolute people, including all children and elderly men and women, without any health facilities offering life-saving treatment... leaving them to die," said Aleppo's health directorate in a statement sent to Reuters late on Friday by an opposition official.
"ELECTRICITY is too essential to be left to the market...It is a critical, life-giving resource, not a commodity".
It is essential to not leave the generation of behavioral variability to chance (i.e., noise), but to keep it under neural control (i.e., nonlinearity).
Rotating call periods are essential to cover leave and existing work commitments.
