Sentence examples for play traffic from inspiring English sources

The New York Power Authority is planning to play traffic cop for electricity.

-- and the owners of North American doughmakers like Kwan -- the United States Figure Skating Association failed to exert its might to play traffic cop.

Speaking to ABC, he added that the campaign did not want Clinton "to have to play traffic cop … having to spend the whole debate correcting the record".

"It's going to be a huge construction site," said Iris Weinshall, the city transportation commissioner, adding, "We're going to have to play traffic cop down there for all those competing interests".

Mr. Ross also will need to play traffic cop to some of the biggest personalities in Hollywood, coordinating movie release dates for strong-willed directors and producers like Steven Spielberg, Jerry Bruckheimer and Robert Zemeckis.

In a remote junction of transmission lines here, about 90 miles west of Albany, bulldozers are moving dirt for a new installation that will give Power Authority operators something that exists nowhere else on the grid: a way to play traffic cop for electrons, shifting the flow between parallel lines, to keep them both full and raise total capacity.

But otherwise, the play traffics in the good-natured semblance-of-reality tropes that, as in sitcoms, serve less to distinguish the characters than to encourage the audience to identify with them.

Mr. Leigh's play emphasized the domestic, but "13" remains macrocosmic — all the better for the thrust stage of the Olivier auditorium, which suits the airing of public issues (and sizable cast: more than 20) in which the lengthy play traffics.

While the freewheeling play traffics in stereotype and anachronism with mixed results, it adopts a vernacular that speaks sincerely and directly to today's gay youth, inviting them to honor the earlier generation that broke the chains of marginalization and invisibility (1 35).

Now at the American Airlines Theater, the play traffics in 1930s melodrama terrain; it's even directed with a cinematic feel by Maria Aitken, whose 39 Steps dazzled Broadway.

There is rarely an air traffic controller playing traffic cop.