Sentence examples for system has sat from inspiring English sources

In Finland, whose comprehensive school system has sat at the top of Europe's rankings for the past 16 years, the narrow, heated debates on school governance and structure that obsess the UK – free schools, academies, grammars – do not exist.

That move, too, was largely symbolic, because much of the money it has already made available to the banking system has sat unused and there is little call for more.

That system has sat uneasily in English football where the most successful manager of modern times, Manchester United's Sir Alex Ferguson, combines both roles, as does Arsène Wenger at Arsenal.

For two decades, he has sat near the top of a system that is characterised by institutionalised corruption.

Also, as Public Enemies concerns a murderer and the failures of the justice system, it might have sat uneasily immediately after the Lawrence documentary.

"A lot of that wine had sat in our accelerated aging system and reached perfection.

For nearly a quarter-century, they have sat in sinister silence, concrete tombs of the city's transit system, choking off traffic and delaying thousands on their commutes.

Two members, Norman R. Bobins and Tariq Butt, have sat on the board almost from the day that Mr. Daley took control of the school system.

"But I've sat behind the Foreign Service officers and watched this take place, so I've sort of seen this system and how it works.

She must have sat down.

And there it had sat.