Sentence examples for were waiting as from inspiring English sources

Correction: February 11 , 2004 Wednesday An article in Business Day yesterday about PeopleSoft's rejection of the latest takeover offer from Oracle misstated the name of an economics consulting firm whose chief investment officer said many stockholders were waiting as long as possible to tender their PeopleSoft shares in case a better offer came along.

NO passengers were waiting as the new New Jersey Transit train eased into the 45th Street station in Bayonne.

In the remote village of Thuy Lung, the Nguyen family were waiting as the light began to fade.

A half-dozen senior personnel were waiting, as they do each morning; among them was Wafik al-Samarrai, a former general in Saddam's military intelligence service, who defected to Talabani in the mid-nineties.

He also said the strategy was to drive al Qaeda toward the Pakistani border where 100,000 Pakistani troops were waiting "as a catcher's mitt". The Pakistanis did in fact kill and capture hundreds of al Qaeda operatives, Franks said, although bin Laden was not found.

Finally, the layout of the clinic precipitated anxiety for some women while they were waiting, as they were able to see and hear the distress of women who had been diagnosed with cancer.

When he does come up with something new, we'll be waiting as eagerly as you are.

Moreover, 25,000 Houston residents have been waiting as long as 10 years to get recycling bins from the city.

Cargo trucks and passenger vehicles have been waiting as long as 10 hours to pass through legal entry points, as industry leaders worry it could imminently affect commerce.

"What it was really," he says, "I had been waiting as long as I could remember for an appropriate way to thank God. Simple as that.

They are waiting as long as possible to comply with sanctions deadlines and lobbying Russian officials to pull Moscow out of U.N. resolutions aimed at bringing North Korea to heel.