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Usage examples of deadline.

Skyhook does not arrive before the deadline expires - you will destroy the airframe completely.

Assistants and copyboys were scurrying about like crazy mice, navigating through the maze of desks, rushing to make crucial deadlines.

At the far end of the room, the crazy, zany lords of the copydesk were spending the last minutes of deadline gloomily searching stories for punctuation and grammar mistakes that would no doubt cheer them up.

Billy had kept Cottle on the porch past the five-minute deadline, the freak might be playing payback, making them wait so their nerves would fray a little, to teach them not to screw with the big dog.

Chinooks looking to acquire a veteran defenseman before the March nineteenth trade deadline?

This deadline is popularly known as the safe-harbor provision of federal lawa provision that came to play a pivotal role in the 2000 presidential election.

The summer of 1982, John had also promised to reward the boys monetarily for their chin-ups, if they reached his goal for them by his chosen deadline.

The note to Pieds Nus taken care of, she switched back to her personal list and added a few new items with suggested deadlines.

Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the issue of whether the Florida Supreme Court acted unconstitutionally when it ordered Harris to include manual recounts submitted after the statutory deadline.

However, the United States countered that such a deadline was not part of Resolution 687 and would introduce artificial constraints into the inspections, something the Security Council had studiously avoided.

Horses were tendered us, and saddling one I crossed the Yellowstone and started down the river to arouse outlying ranches, while Sponsilier and a number of local cowmen rode south to locate a camp and a deadline.

All around me were experienced professional journalists meeting deadlines far more frequent than mine, but I was never able to learn from their example.

She enforced strict deadlines even when one county asked for just two hours more, and she tried to block the hand recount of those punched but disputed ballots.

When the guys got the bad news that on July 1, 1985, Ecstasy would be declared illegal, Eppy went out and bought a hundred pills for seven hundred bucks three days before the deadline.

The point I meant to make here -- before we wandered off on that tangent about jackrabbits -- is that everything in this book except the footnotes was written under savage deadline pressure in the traveling vortex of a campaign so confusing and unpredictable that not even the participants claimed to know what was happening.