Sentence examples for remain long enough from inspiring English sources

With luck, he may persuade Mr Stanishev to be patient and let Mr Saxe-Coburg remain long enough to see Bulgaria into the EU.

My own experience, invariably, was that Iraqis I met who felt secure enough to speak with candor had an overwhelming desire to see American troops remain long enough to restore stability.

After the lone dissenter, an engineer who invented a cellphone diode (Sergey Makovetsky), insists that they remain long enough to consider the consequences of rubber-stamping the prosecution's case, they reluctantly settle down to debate.

In Bangladesh overwhelming majority of children do not receive quality education (as measured by national or international standards). Only half the students who enter school remain long enough to complete Class 5 and achieve less than two-thirds of fundamental competencies in literacy and numeracy.

Essentially all of Iraq's Shiite Muslims and Kurds, who between them make up 80percentt of the population, were happy to see Saddam Hussein go and have made it clear that they want the coalition to remain long enough to prevent the Baath party from re-emerging.

The only timing that we did carefully calculate was the decrease in note playing time for level 2. We were more careful with this calculation because we needed to be able to decrease the note time in 40 equal steps, one step for each level, but the time that the notes are played had to remain long enough that the player was still able to hear the individual tones and see the LED's light up.

Even so, lines remained long enough at some stations that people posted ads on Craigslist offering to sell gas for a premium — $20 per gallon in one case.

He remained long enough to learn the basics of the priesthood but, aged 30, he took the path of dedicating himself (and his wife, Suzanne) to the service of Africa.

During a long and bitter battle most people left for new housing – with the mayor of Rio, Eduardo Paes, claiming the majority were happy to do so – but a rump of around 20 remained long enough to be granted permission to stay.

The land belonged to the Duke of Devonshire who, forewarned of the mass trespass, mobilised his gamekeepers to defend his grouse moors and invited the parish clerk to remind the ramblers of the law - a task that he would have faithfully performed if the transgressors had remained long enough in one place to allow him to address them.

Then, as if the grass-court gods had their own grand plan, lightning visited Justine Henin's racket and remained long enough for her to complete a 2-6, 6-2, 6-2 semifinal victory that was a useful reminder to those who foolishly scripted Capriati's life in the first place.