Some women can sit and sew, crochet, tat or knit by the hour, and look calm and relaxed and turn out beautiful work.

Some of the Rump Parliament were opposed and refused to sit with the Secluded Members.

Some riders may sit back in the main bunch conserving energy, only attacking for the sprints to gain points.

Some of the words that came into use are among the most common in English, such as to go, to come, to sit, to listen, to eat, both, same, get and give.

Some Christian traditions have it that at the Last Supper, Judas, the disciple who betrayed Jesus, was the 13th to sit at the table.

Some dermatopathologists qualify to sit for their examinations by completing a residency in dermatology and one in pathology.

Some stores both in the USA and internationally have child-carrying carts that look like a car or van with a seat where a child can sit equipped with a steering wheel and sometimes a horn.

Some backbenchers also sit on parliamentary committees, where legislation is considered in more detail than is permitted on the floor of the House, and thereby provide valuable input into the legislative process.

Some species sit on or beside flowers or fruit, where they grab visiting insects.

Some species frequent promising positions among leaves or bark, where they await prey, and some of them will sit in the open, where they are startlingly good mimics of bird droppings.

Some of the most senior criminal lawyers in the country sit as Recorders in the Central Criminal Court.

Some slides require riders to sit directly on the slide, or on a raft or tube designed to be used with the slide.

Some PC caucus members refused to accept the merger: long-time Tory MP and former Prime Minister Joe Clark continued to sit as a " Progressive Conservative " for the remainder of the Parliament, as did MPs John Herron and André Bachand, while Scott Brison left the new party to join the Liberal Party in December 2003.

Some spirits sit on the chandeliers, gorging themselves on wine, while other ghosts enter the hall from an open coffin in a hearse.

Some appellate courts, such as the Supreme Court of the United States and the highest courts of most U. S. states, do not sit in panels, but hear all of their cases en banc ( with the exception of cases where a judge is ill or recused ).

Some drum groups do not allow females to sit down at their drum but welcome them to stand behind the drummers and sing backup harmonies ; the reasons for this point vaguely to a variety of tribal stories that attempt to tell the history of drumming as each group understands it.

Some would stock rooms with expensive Aeron chairs and the most lavish type of ergonomic desk available, while others would have their employees sit on boxes and work on desks made of used doors set on old trestles or crates.

Some public houses even had holes in the wall behind the wooden bench seats to allow their patrons to sit comfortably with their hump in the hole.

Some of the more interesting ( and expensive ) standing desks are adjustable-height, allowing the user to sit or stand by controlling an electric motor that raises or lowers the desk height on demand.

Some accounts claim that there were a group of Bedouin who would come and sit to listen to him, not for the sake of learning, but just to listen to his eloquent use of the language.

Some are done during a sit down dinner as long as time is provided afterwards for guests to move about and mingle.

Some dogs need only a minimum amount of training to learn to eliminate outside ( be housebroken ), to sit, to lie down, or to come on command ( obey a recall ).

Some winemakers create a second batch of wine from the used pomace by adding a quantity of water equivalent to the juice removed, letting the mixture sit for 24 hours, and draining off the liquid.

Some fourteen or fifteen years ago, in an essay I called The Leader Follows -- Where??

Some of the children of the family could not pronounce this name and called her Paula, a soubriquet Carl liked so much she has been Paula ever since.

Some members of the organization called attention also to the article on hymns of inspiration, the Daily Prayer and Three Minutes A Day, as being very helpful.

Some sources mention the use of an abacus called a nepohualtzintzin in ancient Mayan culture.

Some linguists believe the case for either interpretation is about equally strong ; they have been called the " skeptics ".

Some synaptic junctions appear partway along an axon as it extends — these are called en passant (" in passing ") synapses.

Some called it peace.

Some non-benzene-based compounds called heteroarenes, which follow Hückel's rule, are also aromatic compounds.

Some Hittite texts mention a nation lying to the west called Ahhiyawa.

Some Protestant US military chaplains carry the Roman Rite version of the Anointing of the Sick with them for use if called upon to assist wounded or dying soldiers who are Catholics.

Some BBSes, called elite, WaReZ or pirate boards, were exclusively used for distributing pirated software, phreaking, and other questionable or unlawful content.

Some combinations of amino acids will tend to curl up in a coil called an α-helix or into a sheet called a β-sheet ; some α-helixes can be seen in the hemoglobin schematic above.

Some, mainly utility, bicycles use hub gears with between 3 and 14 ratios, but most use the generally more efficient dérailleur system, by which the chain is moved between different cogs called chainrings and sprockets in order to select a ratio.

Some other organisms form beneficial relationships with plants, called mutualisms, for example with mycorrhizal fungi that provide nutrients, and honey bees that pollinate flowers.

Some authors require in addition that μ ( C ) < ∞ for every compact set C. If a Borel measure μ is both inner regular and outer regular, it is called a regular Borel measure.

Some but not most Baptists prefer not to be called Protestants, claiming a direct ancestral line going back to the apostles in the 1st century.

Some apps such as Microsoft Office are available in versions for several different platforms ; others have narrower requirements and are thus called, for example, a Geography application for Windows or an Android application for education or Linux gaming.

Some casino games have a skill element, where the player makes decisions ; such games are called " random with a tactical element ".

Some pairs of consonants like p :: b, t :: d are sometimes called fortis and lenis, but this is a phonological rather than phonetic distinction.

Some cross-dressers have periodically disposed of all their clothing, a practice called " purging ", only to start another collection later.

As noted above, this terminology is not universal: Some authors use countable to mean what is here called " countably infinite ," and to not include finite sets.

Some proposed that the Synod of Bishops should perform this function, a proposal that was not accepted, because, among other reasons, the Synod of Bishops can only meet when called by the pope.

Some computers were built using " writable microcode " — rather than storing the microcode in ROM or hard-wired logic, the microcode was stored in a RAM called a writable control store or WCS.

Some sources derive the name of the weapon from the name of its first users — bernarda troopers called " carabiniers ", from the French carabine, from the Old French carabin ( soldier armed with a musket ), perhaps from escarrabin, gravedigger, perhaps from scarabee, scarab beetle.