Sentence examples for on the sitting from inspiring English sources

Amin had been due to take on the sitting Labour MP, Ian Austin, in the general election on 7 May.

Joseph Kelner, a lawyer who took on the sitting governor of Ohio, a former university president and the National Guard in a suit on behalf of the student victims of the Kent State shootings in 1970, died on Monday in Manhasset, N.Y.

The book contains 12 chapters: three chapters on neurophysiology and clinical measurement, five chapters on neuropharmacology, one chapter on the sitting position in anaesthesia, and three chapters relating to neurointensive care.

For years, Hong Kong has served as a lively and expedient port of banned books, peddling everything from political thrillers to critical commentary on the sitting Chinese government.

Any candidate wishing to run for governor had to first win the endorsement of 10 percent of the region's municipal lawmakers, local officials who, in turn, are heavily dependent on the sitting governors.

Resigned to the maximum sentence, Peltier delivered a spectacular personal attack on the sitting judge, and an eloquent contextualising of his own story within the unhappy history of America's relationship with its native peoples.

"Try sleeping on the floor, sitting on the floor, dining on the floor".

"Everybody here is on the ground, sitting on the floor.

People were lounging on the beds, sitting on the sofas, eating off breakfast trays.

Gauri was waiting for him on the terrace, sitting on one of the folding chairs.

We, the impure, were the ones sitting on the margins.