In a nearly two-hour bench ruling of the hotly debated yoga-church-state case, Judge Meyer said that even though yoga may date back to 1500 B.C. and have its roots in Hinduism, the 30-minute yoga classes that emphasize respect, proper breathing and posture are not teaching religion.
One recent morning, residents of one of the complex's 20-story buildings sat for hours on benches outside with grocery bags, walkers, canes and children as they waited for the elevators, which had been out since the night before, to be repaired.
"Watching our game for an hour from the bench," suggested Arsenal's Walcott, "felt like holding a PlayStation controller, moving world class players around.
The next week, half the crew went into town and Archie spent an hour on the bench outside the post office writing on some brown wrapping paper, and addressed the tortured missive to Rose at the stage station where he believed her to be.
I was also ready to rip my hair out if I spent one more hour at my bench preparing PCR reactions.
Leibovitz, in explaining her ruling for almost an hour from the bench, stated that she personally believed that the men knew who killed Wone, but was not convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that they committed the offenses with which they were charged.
Miss Beale, who has no family, then spent six hours on a bench in the hospital grounds before walking into the city in her hospital slippers.
I used to run ten miles a day, waste countless hours on a bench press and probably consumed enough creatine to do some sort of long-term internal damage.
And so they began to meet regularly in the early-evening hours, on a bench in the garden in the shade of a dense bougainvillea, or over coffee in Luna's room.
He said that he and a tribe member, Doreen Arrindell, 46, who was also arrested, were taken to the state police barracks in Hampton Bays and shackled for hours to a bench.
The grim settings of some labs and the long hours at the bench did not scare me at all--nor are they the reason I am no longer at the bench.
