Barton waited for a long moment, then asked the question which lay always uppermost in his mind.

Watching, they waited until the squall thickened and began to move in a long drifting slant across the dry burning land.

Not when she'd waited so long already.

( This would happen, for example, if the appellant waited too long, under the appellate court's rules, to file the appeal.

Mussolini was aware that Italy did not have the military capacity to carry out a long war with France or the United Kingdom and waited until France was on the verge of imminent collapse and surrender from German invasion before declaring war on France and the United Kingdom on 10 June 1940, on the assumption that the war would be short-lived following France's collapse.

Although such limitations periods generally are issues of law, limitations periods known as laches may apply in situations of equity ( i. e., a judge will not issue an injunction if the party requesting the injunction waited too long to ask for it ).

Several Canes raised the Cup for the first time in long NHL careers ; Rod Brind ' Amour and Bret Hedican had both played over 15 years without winning the Cup, while Glen Wesley — the last remaining Hartford Whaler on the Hurricanes ' roster — had waited 18 seasons.

The very fact that Russian authorities waited for so long to grant Sosnowiec town rights is seen as a consequence of the January Uprising, after which numerous towns had seen their status reduced to a village.

Orosius succeeded only in obtaining John's consent to send letters and deputies to Pope Innocent I of Rome ; and, after having waited long enough to learn the unfavourable decision of the Synod of Diospolis ( Lydda ) in December of the same year, he returned to North Africa,

But in December 1809 they got a message that they had waited too long and the Emperor had taken on himself the decision to ask the engineer Perier ( 1742 – 1818 ) to build a steam engine to operate the pumps at Marly.

However, she waited too long before entering America's music scene and though great names of the American music industry wanted to introduce her to the United States, she refused commenting that " I took too long to start here ".

The airline will launch service to Tokyo on January 11, 2013 with the long waited Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft.

I'm really into " ALL "' and I've waited a long time to unleash the whole concept on people.

If the French intended to form into line once the enemy position was detected, they waited too long.

Dosanjh waited as long as possible to call the next election, finally doing so in May 2001.

“ Overall I'm really proud of it, and I think we're doing right by our fans, who ’ ve waited a long time for us to make another record.

Earth can also be depicted as the head of an empire as in Poul Anderson's Dominic Flandry series where " The barbarians in the long ships waited at the edge of the Galaxy for the ancient Terran Empire to fall ...

Still plagued with worry ( perhaps he has waited too long to begin his search ...), Haw finds some bits of cheese that nourishes him and he is able to continue his search.

After the end of World War I, he was instrumental in the reorganization of the Conservatory — this may, in fact, have been the main reason he waited so long to go into exile.

Consequently, families often waited several years for apartments ; in Sofia, where overcrowding was at its worst, the wait was as long as ten years.

Women waited in long lines for scarce and expensive food ; young men milled in frustration on street corners unable to find work.

The Savoy audiences, who had not seen a Gilbert and Sullivan first night for four years, waited in long lines for a chance to buy a ticket and were delighted to see Gilbert and Sullivan reunited ; the first-night reception was rapturous: " The cheering was deafening and increased to a roar " when the author and composer appeared for their bows.

Because of this, a man from the line of Baekso 백소 ( 白巢 ) by the name of Jiso 지소 ( 支巢 ) decided to cede his meal of Earth's Milk five times to his neighbours ( other versions say that he waited in line but the line was so long he never got his turn ).

I looked for Jessica to materialize out of the clogging, curdling crowd and, as the time passed and I waited, a fiend came to life beside me and whispered in my ear: How was I planning to greet Jessica??

The two little bangs meant that he was getting impatient to have a crowd of customers waited on and that if he had to he would jerk open the door and drag out, by the opposite door handle which she would be clutching, whichever-the-hell clerk it was who thought she could waste so much store time on the pot.

Having composed the Proclamation some time earlier, Lincoln had waited for a military victory to publish it to avoid it being perceived as the product of desperation.

The convention in naval warfare of the time was that ships of the line did not attack frigates when there were ships of equal size to engage, but in firing first French Captain Claude-Jean Martin had negated the rule and Saumarez waited until the frigate was at close range before replying.

Harry and William were staying with their father at Balmoral Castle at the time, and the Prince of Wales waited until early the following morning to tell his sons about their mother's death.

However, if the time that is spent suspending a thread and then restoring it can be proven to be always more than the time that must be waited for a thread to become ready to run after being blocked in a particular situation, then spinlocks are a fine solution for that situation only.

From 1639 forward, he waited for Christ to send a new apostle to reestablish the church, and he saw himself as a " witness " to Christianity until that time came.

The restaurants were carpeted, had waited service, tablecloths, flowers, china and cutlery, and made the trappings of upmarket dining affordable to the working classes for the first time.

Ulmo had always loved both the Eldar and the Edain, and during the Exile kept the elves ever in his thoughts for though the Valar waited for the appointed time to assail Morgoth Ulmo who had not been fooled by Morgoth during his freedom in Valinor still brought council to those east of Aman.

Though Berg and Webern both followed Schoenberg into total chromaticism and both adopted twelve-tone technique soon after he did, each in his own way, not all of these other pupils did so, or waited for a considerable time before following suit.

Lawrence was famed for the length of time he took to finish some of his paintings ( Isabella Wolff waited twelve years for her portrait to be completed ) and, at his death, his studio contained a large number of unfinished works.

Feigning weakness, he endured torturous weeks watching Angelus sexually pursue Dru as he waited for the right time to strike against his enemy.

Pryor tried to increase the tempo, moving more, punching more, hitting Arguello with slashing combinations while Arguello stayed true to his strategy, summarized before the fight as " I don't have to hit him many times in each round, but I do have to make sure that every time I hit him it hurts ", waited for counterpunching opportunities and used both his own strength and Pryor's momentum from coming forward to try to make every blow as explosive and painful as possible.

He waited while the mission returned to ask for new instructions, which would take some time given the decentralised nature of the Dutch administration ; all the city councils would have to be consulted on the issue.

He waited alone in his shell, which appeared as an egg spinning in the empty endless void of the time before the sky, before the earth, before the moon, before the sun, before the stars.

Historically, each approach had its advantages: ARCNET added a small delay on an inactive network as a sending station waited to receive the token, but Ethernet's performance degraded drastically if too many peers attempted to broadcast at the same time, due to the time required for the slower processors of the day to process and recover from collisions.

Residents often had such a difficult time traveling across the borough that they waited until after morning and evening rush hours.

After receiving a message from the host, the devices waited a short random time before responding, and then only did so after " snooping " the bus to make sure it was not busy.

I guarantee that, if we waited as we normally did, by the time May had come around they would have picked up Angel.

Chambers played an important role in the events that lead up to the Academy's foundation, the Minutes of the General Assembly of the Royal Academy 14 December 1768 record ' That some time towards the latter end of November 1768, Mr Chambers waited upon the King and informed him that many artists of reputation together with himself are very desirous of establishing a Society that should more effectively promote the Arts of Design '.

Their commanders waited for some time for the Swedish troops to appear on the open fields to their front.