Sentence examples for sitting licence from inspiring English sources
The pool table story is particularly weird – I've never heard of a "sitting licence".
Thanks to rising incomes, China in 2014 will elbow past Britain and Japan to become the third-largest couch-potato market (earning $13bn from TV subscriptions and licence fees), sitting just behind Germany ($15bn) but still eclipsed by America ($77bn).
Currently sitting his A coaching licence back in Scotland, Robson believes the standard of the Major League Soccer will keep him in good shape for international football.
They had met after school in Hackney, sitting on the wall outside the off-licence where the kids used to hang about.
In fact, it reflects two things the obduracy of Mr Clinton's opponents (not least, Kenneth Starr and Ms Jones); and the fact that the Arkansas bar takes itself much more seriously than outsiders might expect.Mr Clinton may become the first sitting chief executive of the United States to lose his law licence.
Yet the harsh Sharia court ruling, penalising a woman for sitting at the wheel of a car although she holds an international licence, despite the fact that no formal law bans Saudi women from driving, seemed to question the king's magnanimity.
The charity warned that the drug could be left "sitting on the shelf" because there is no incentive for a pharmaceutical company to licence the drug for cancer.
This is a way of transmitting signals in somebody else's licensed band, but without disturbing the licence-holder in any way for the incumbent, a bit like having a bird sitting in your garden.
Even so, lawmakers in most countries have been slow to repeal the laws on driving tests and licences, and in most places the rules still call for at least one sober "driver" sitting in a front seat.
But there was symbolism in Carlos Tevez celebrating City's third goal by sitting down and pretending to turn a steering wheel to make light of his car being impounded due to him not having a valid licence last week.
