This was not necessarily the best thing for those who invented the technology — the designers of carburetors, sparkplugs, radiators, rubber tires, power steering, overdrive, the convertible top, rack-and-pinion steering, the rear-window defroster, cruise control, air bags, and intermittent windshield wipers.
If anything goes even marginally wrong now – flat tire, power steering glitch, headlight fuse failure – we are dead in the most horribly inevitable way possible.
He has said he is tired of sharing power with his rival, Morgan Tsvangirai, and wants to run for president again this year.
Six IGBT modules are tired upon a power cabinet.
He looked unsettled, perhaps tired, while Evans powered smoothly, calm.
The big powers, tired of locking horns with Annan, wanted someone bland and pliable to replace him, and the colorless South Korean fit the bill; Ban seemed, in the words of the author James Traub, "the cure for Annan's dangerous charisma".
Ambitious new city projects like EkoAtlantic in Lagos and Tatu City in Nairobi will be welcomed by a middle class tired of traffic jams, power cuts and insecurity.
I don't know about you guys, but I'm tired of big-ass power bricks.
Hurricane Irene is coming, and many of us on the east coast may find ourselves without power and tired of eating crackers, chips and other no-cook items.
Maybe, eventually, the players will get tired and forge a power-sharing accord in Syria, as the Lebanese eventually did in 1989 to end their civil war.
