"I've had to serve to stop bumping into them.
Players quiver on the field with potential crushed tibias and ruptured spleens, which serve to stop the clock.
Federer 2-4* Roddick Roddick begins as he finished the last game, walloping some mighty serves at Federer, and getting in to the net wherever possible, and especially on the second serve, to stop Federer attacking it.
A break point duly arrived for the American but Ward's nerve held and he fired down a big serve to stop the rot, before roaring with delight when he moved ahead at 4-2 with some brilliant returning.
Withy Mills: Excavations began in May, 2014 at Terminus bridge; the arch had been removed and the abutments were in poor condition; an earth bund between the abutments carried the public footpath and served to stop the water from the Paulton Basin.
But Cesar sometimes lifted his makeshift flail (a belt, if memory serves) only to stop midway through the downstroke.
Because nothing will change until we are all willing to shut up and listen and serve, willing to stop making it about us: our feelings, our hurts, our guilt.
The row over who said what on Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska's yacht over the summer threatened to derail him once again, but instead it served only to stop the seemingly irrepressible rise of his fellow guest George Osborne, the shadow chancellor.
A huge lunch is served upstairs to stop us leaving the building: meat, fish, pasta, wine, cheese and pudding, which some of us smuggle out in napkins to snack on at teatime, as we drowse beside the keyboard.In my office, which faces west on the 13th floor, the blinds are permanently down to keep the dazzle of daylight off our screens.
The proposed rules, part of a busy week by regulators toward implementing Dodd-Frank, may serve mostly to stop capital levels getting too low in the future.
