The one who is always inviting everybody to happy hour, forcing us to make excuses about "next time, for sure".
News of Russia's proposal for Syria to surrender its poison gas was just breaking and changing every hour, forcing me to rewrite my column every hour.
A day earlier, the trading software used by the National Stock Exchange stopped functioning properly for nearly an hour, forcing other exchanges to divert trades around it.
A nurse with SARS symptoms rode a commuter train twice during rush hour, forcing public health officials to scurry to find those who sat near her.
Van Persie needed a long period of treatment and resumed for a quarter of an hour – forcing Cesar to a smart save from a volley off Rafael's cross – but was in clear discomfort and eventually made way for Danny Welbeck.
The last pair, Ben Brown – who scored a fine 60 – and Tim Linley resisted manfully for more than an hour, forcing tea to be postponed but never taken, as Borthwick returned to nab Brown lbw.
Gudmundsson and Johnnie Jackson both wasted good chances to level for the Addicks, before the floodlight failure after half an hour forced a delay in proceedings.
When we pay people less per hour, forcing them to work more total hours, productivity suffers.
On the set of "Revenant," he told The Times, he has instituted a practice in which a bell sounds at an appointed hour, forcing everyone to stop working for a short time.
Knowing that you just have to be somewhere at some hour forces you to become more disciplined in your schedule.
