To pass the time, she wrote a book, a biography of her Iranian grandmother.
They fight for respect, for food and snacks, or simply to pass the time.
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Taking care of his modest Spanish-style bungalow is one way for him to pass the time.
The millions of videos on websites like YouTube are, for most of us, an amusing way to pass the time.
To pass the time, he planned to hunt for jobs online, update his curriculum vitae and freshen up his social profile.
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They picked up a newspaper one day early in their careers to pass the time, found the puzzle and tried to solve it.
Tamalpais in Marin County -- just on the other side of the Golden Gate Bridge -- a seemingly adult way to pass the time.
In North Carolina, strangers standing next to each other played games to pass the time, quizzing each other on their knowledge of the amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
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But the political class today, typified by Stephen Harper, seems to operate under the delusion that culture is just entertainment, something to pass the time after the day's work is done.
But the public, uninterested that Mr Plimpton might have a serious motive for his jaunts, took the view that he was simply a moneyed idiot looking for ways to pass the time.
In lockdown, he made somewhat futile attempts to pass the time, copying the full text of the Bible (it took one year, nine months and two days), and pacing for 18 hours a day.
To pass the time on one of his visits Miss Bailey's father recalled that as a child she had shown a prodigious talent sketching the animals in the farm attached to their Shropshire home.
In addition, brain rest is recommended following a concussion, so reading, watching movies and playing video games -- things you might normally do to pass the time on a plane -- may make things worse.
He is running low on all his stores and has very little fuel left, so that listening to the radio or making telephone calls to pass the time is not an option during the long hot days at sea.
Often sitting in a studio in the dark for long stretches of time, they exchange personal stories and jokes to pass the time, and as a consequence, learn a great deal about each other in a short amount of time.
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Created by brothers Zac and Seth Longaker after working for their family wholesale plumbing company to help pass the time and make a few bucks, the idea for Oddball was sparked by a personal dilemma that the brothers knew many others shared.
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It was New Komeito, many of whose members are pacifists, which also pressured the government to shorten the Diet session so that the passage of this year's mission in the Indian Ocean was certain not to pass, since the time allotted was not enough for the government to use its supermajority.
And since I have criticized the GOP for staging phony primaries in the senate recalls, all for the purpose of delaying the actual recall elections to give their party more time to pass the Walker agenda, I would have to be just as critical of the Democrats playing this game as it would be equally wrong.
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And he accused David Cameron and Theresa May of "playing politics" with policing and trying to "take the credit for tough and correct action taken by the police while at the same time trying to pass the buck for any criticisms back to them".
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Jenkins joined the Army to help find direction in his life, Littrell said, and when he heard recently the young soldier was being deployed to Camp Leatherneck in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan, he felt the time had come to pass the torch.
Late Friday, Republican Members of Congress indicated they would not object to a three-month increase to the U.S. debt ceiling, which provides the time required to pass a budget.
That the suicide rate among those who work at the Foxconn factories was lower than the suicide rate in the general Chinese population did seem to pass many by at the time.
To socialize is to be present, and to let time pass with the people you are with.
In short: this is the right time to prepare to pass the baton and ensure a smooth transition.
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For such a particle, it is possible to work out its velocity (from the time taken to pass between the two layers) and its trajectory (from the relative positions of the elements triggered in each sensor layer).
Mr Netanyahu solemnly promised his Orthodox coalition partners to pass the requisite legislation in time.
When the ball came back, Jamie Robinson snapped up brother Nicky's bouncing pass to give Ben Blair the time and space to set up Halfpenny's chance.
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