Any senator can place a hold to block legislation - and overcoming that would require the Senate to take time-consuming steps to invoke cloture, which would require 60 votes.This is a stupid rule.
Intensive strikes over recent months have pleased global intelligence services because they put al-Qaida "on the back foot", provoking damaging internal witch-hunts and forcing senior leaders to take time-consuming and demoralising security precautions.
A Bronx high school teacher has been accused of selling hundreds of medical training certificates to coaches who did not want to take time-consuming classes in first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation, officials said yesterday.
An "air hashtag" also looks tricky: attempting to draw out the # symbol with a finger takes four time-consuming strokes, and makes you look as if you've paused mid-thought to bust out a hand-jive to the imaginary music in your head.
There might not seem to be much connection between a music startup and mobile ad tech, but Rodriguez said both startups have taken a time-consuming process and improved it by making it technologically- and algorithmically-driven.
McCain was going to have to take the time-consuming and energy-draining step of campaigning there to hold on to the state's electoral votes.
If you want to use a memory palace for permanent storage, you have to take periodic time-consuming mental strolls through it to keep your images from fading.
Rather than taking the time-consuming route of entering film festivals or courting theater distributors, he sold the DVD of "Uncovered" through the Web sites of various left-liberal organizations: MoveOn, The Nation magazine, the Center for American Progress and the alternative-news Web sites AlterNet and BuzzFlash.
While there is no quantitative data to confirm their impressions, other studies have noted a similar impact when lay workers take over time-consuming HIV counseling and education tasks [ 32, 33].
Gone are the days when the only way even the narrower duty against discrimination could be enforced was when the victim happened to have the courage, money and support, all at once, to take a time-consuming and often very stressful case to court to enforce her rights.
