Sentence examples for sitting could be from inspiring English sources

"I started to think about the UC students using a peaceful method of protest, i.e. sitting, and how truly revolutionary such a passive event like sitting could be.

If the legislation which was used to trigger the double dissolution was reintroduced, passed by a Coalition majority House and blocked by the Senate, a joint sitting could be called.

They argued that only a sitting government could be admitted.

The man sitting opposite could be a pugnacious newcomer pitching for a job.

The actors, standing in a passageway to the left, weren't visible from where we were sitting, and could be seen only on the monitor.

Veteran MP Frank Field said any moves to deselect sitting MPs could be met by a mass rebellion.

He said that none of us knew when one would be arrested, and that even the room we were sitting in could be monitored electronically.

Therefore, the thinking goes, if a sitting president could be criminally prosecuted and potentially thrown in jail he would be hard-pressed to fully execute the duties of his office.

The theater space is configured like a chancel, with the audience sitting in what could be choir stalls.

After the solicitor general released a brief asserting that sitting vice presidents could be indicted, Agnew launched an attack on the administration and vowed not to resign.

In the photograph, Dean looks like an ecstatic magistrate, sitting in what could be a seat of justice or an electric chair.