Demonstrating an acute awareness of his rapidly waning power, Mr Musharraf has now reportedly agreed to the former Supreme Court judges' reinstatement on the condition that "they don't sit on benches hearing cases against the president", according to an unnamed official.
You could sit on one of these hills and hear the whole show... and from some vantage points, even see the show, free.
"No life so happy and so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler; for when the lawyer is swallowed up with business and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us," Walton wrote.
When I sit on a plane and hear a child cry, I don't hear fractious, I hear the music of life".
Where you could sit on the porch and hear Roger across the street, a good neighbor, strumming his banjo to celebrate another Alabama night?
A leading critic of the laws, the Correctional Association of New York, says that their effect is to give elected officials from 35 years ago, many of them dead, more power over today's narcotics cases "than the judges who currently sit on the bench and hear all the evidence presented".
Corporate lawyers will sit on shadowy tribunals and hear cases about the environment, labor rights, human rights, public health, food security, internet freedom and financial regulation.
Senator Orrin G. Hatch, Republican of Utah and one of five senators who sit on both panels, said at the hearing that the Judiciary Committee's work "could complement" the intelligence inquiry.
That's what drove him to golf, to sit on a range, beating balls, hearing himself in total clarity in his head, 'This is to win the U.S. Open.' And he overcame that with great will and determination, and became the longest-running lead analyst in the history of sports television".
Because the case is considered to be of such importance, seven justices who also sit on the supreme court will hear the case.
