Microwave popcorn and Diet Coke were just a few leaps away; a loud "can you grab that from the printer?" resulted in immediate delivery service to the table; and our cat could be counted on at least several times a night to bring studying to a halt by lying fully stretched across the most urgently needed papers or books.
We are right to be concerned about fake news, about the lie getting halfway round the world before the truth has its pants on, about the failure of colossal organisations to halt the lie and help the truth with its pants.
That October, national employment fell 2percentt in one month, largely because a steel strike forced many other companies to halt production and lay off workers.
Adelson was forced to halt construction and lay off thousands of workers in China amid the credit crisis.
You are sometimes forced to halt your advance, lying on a hillside in the shadows, until some component has been created or some supply drop has arrived.
Classroom aides have become a hot topic in New York City since the teachers' union sued Mayor Michael Bloomberg to halt his plan to lay off more than 800 of them for budgetary reasons.
All of us know those two abstract nouns intimately and we all employ them constantly in our daily lives, usually – and fortunately – to a minor and insignificant degree: all social life, for example, would grind to a halt without the "white lie", or the "pieux mensonge", as the French have it.
As the vehicle came to a halt and injured pedestrians lay on the bridge, three men jumped and ran into Borough Market.
Stoke complained to the referee Michael Oliver that play should have been halted with Mané lying injured in an offside position.
As a result of this, perhaps the best chance to halt the drilling may still lie in congressional action.
