"I just don't understand what the problem is if the president of the United States has had a meeting for over two hours, stands up and says, 'See you tomorrow,"' Representative Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic leader in the House, said afterward.
"My picture 'Fifth Avenue, Winter' is the result of a three hours' stand during a fierce snow-storm on February 22nd , 1893 awaiting the proper moment," Stieglitz wrote in 1897.
This print was not merely a result of what Stieglitz described as "a three hours' stand during a fierce snow storm on Feb. 22, 1893, awaiting the proper moment".
Only Nasser Hussain, with a defiant half-century compiled over almost three hours, stood firm before knocking a return catch to the leg-spinner as MacGill teased and tormented the England batsmen on his way to innings figures of seven for 50 and a match analysis of 12 for 131.
Every two hours I stand up, feel dizzy, grimly mix another batch, then sit back down at my desk, too hungry to concentrate on work.
One incident report describes how a detainee is "sitting with his arms folded and is visibly trembling and rolling [a] razor blade in his mouth", leading to a four hour stand-off with immigration staff.
And less than a week later, Dr. Sherilyn Gordon-Burroughs, a transplant surgeon was shot and killed by her husband after a five hour stand-off with police.
Another man, who lives in Amara, in the south near the Iranian border, left his home at 4 a.m. and drove for five hours to stand in line outside the studio.
For the next three hours, Nyima stood with the crowd that had assembled on a grassy median and waited for word about his sister.
At the end of the prearranged four hours, he stood up, and Mana, who had seemed almost cheerful, grew suspicious: "Oh, you're leaving — so who are you?" Reiko decided to hire Inaba on a regular basis — about twice a month, for four- or eight-hour stints, at a cost of twenty or forty thousand yen.
