We all need some breathing room to respond to the unexpected crisis, deadline, project, or opportunity (or to create opportunity).
The latest unexpected rollback of the deadline, an extension of six months to July 1, 2014, underscores a struggle by the Treasury Department to enforce the new rules.
You imagine his failures to make the deadline - an unexpected visitor, the artist was struck down with sudden toothache, time ran out.
Barring an unexpected turnaround before Monday's deadline, the failure of the special Congressional deficit committee will be the third high-profile effort to fall short of a deal in the last 12 months, including a bipartisan deficit commission and talks last summer between President Obama and Speaker John A. Boehner.
You will need to be willing to work unexpected long hours to meet deadlines.
THE WORDS A writer straining to meet a deadline resorts to plagiarism with unexpected metaphysical consequences.
At the trade deadline, however, they made an unexpected move by acquiring guard Isaiah Thomas from the Phoenix Suns.
Participating youth see themselves judged by the established standards of a discipline, including deadlines and the constraints and unexpected difficulties that arise in the profession.
So, you are on a big job, with a tight deadline and suddenly there is an unexpected truck repair.
"['The Real O'Neals is] a contemporary take on a seemingly perfect Catholic family, whose lives take an unexpected turn when surprising truths are revealed," according Deadline's synopsis.
