Sentence examples for general waiting from inspiring English sources

(c)General waiting period.

In general, waiting times for an appointment are usually short, from one day to two weeks, and most offices offer same-day services for patients who have discovered a lump.

I used to read The Autumn of a Patriarch by Gabriel García Márquez over and over again, staggered by its virtuosity, the crumbling mansion with its weeds and its cow flops, the stench of lepers and dead roses, harlots with their runts and the insane, defeated general, waiting, indeed believing, he would be re-enthroned and that "the salt of health" would be restored to him.

Then, the report filed, I was moved to a general waiting area.

A strike waiting period, described in paragraph (d) of this section, will satisfy a general waiting period with respect to a benefit year.

(2) Days of unemployment which are not compensable by virtue of paragraph (g)(1) of this section shall nevertheless be counted as days of unemployment for purposes of determining whether the general waiting period, as described in paragraph (c) of this section, has been satisfied, and for purposes of determining a period of continuing unemployment.

Instead, Akron General waited five months, records show.

That the United Nations secretary general waited nine days before seriously speaking out has dealt a severe blow to the organisation's humanitarian image.

Sukarno was kept as a figurehead while Mr. Suharto, a relatively little known major general, waited three years to officially succeed him, in 1968.

So where does my guilt lie?" Near the end of "Judgment at Nuremberg," Dietrich, the widow of a convicted Nazi general, waits expectantly for the verdict in the American military trial of four German judges.

The function to calculate this backoff time is sometimes formulated differently but can always be converted to the following general wait time function for opportunistic broadcasting: T = T max × ( Δ d max ) a - ( Δd ) a ( Δ d max ) a (1).