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In fact, in Brin's story "Lungfish," some von Neumann machines are keeping a close watch over the Earth right now, waiting for us to reach a certain level of sophistication before they make their move.
The third lion takes the raft back to the right bank where the wildebeest are waiting.
Well, since we've got two lions waiting on the left bank, the only option is for two wildebeest to cross.
But nations aren't waiting, they're going ahead.
Maybe the people that my childhood taught me to label as strangers were actually friends waiting to be discovered.
What we didn't realize is just how many people were ready and waiting to put the bias aside.
They will rush you to the hospital in their own car while you're dying and stay in the waiting room while the doctors give you a bypass.
Back in Paris, the lovelorn Pierre was waiting, and the pair quickly married and became a formidable scientific team.
We have shed our staff and closed our doors and we will share our model freely with anyone who sees their power to do this work without waiting for our permission.
We have to remember that we need people who disagree with us, because there are people who need all of us who are still waiting for these tools.
Now, in non-tech speak, what that basically means is taking big, multi-year projects and breaking them up into bite-sized chunks, so that way we can reduce the risk and actually start to see results every couple of weeks, instead of waiting in a black box for years.
So waiting six months while the government processes the replacement is not cool.
He's sitting in the audience waiting for his turn to go onstage, and he is still scribbling notes and crossing out lines.
Look at Facebook, waiting to build a social network until after Myspace and Friendster.
Look at Google, waiting for years after Altavista and Yahoo.
But there's many elderly people who are avoiding care and are waiting that long that it becomes life-threatening, and it's straight to the costly, intensive care.
And we start to scan their brains before the story starts, when they're simply lying in the dark and waiting for the story to begin.
And like clockwork, the same group of men would be there every time we went, either waiting on their favorite barber or just soaking up the atmosphere.
I have a very clear image of leaving the base hospital on a stretcher and my entire platoon is waiting outside to see if I was OK.
And half a block away from janitor man, there's a group of good-for-nothings who don't know no better, waiting for janitor man with rusted bicycle chains and imitation Louisville Sluggers, and if they don't find a cent on him, which they won't, they'll just pound at him till the muscles in their arms start burning, till there's no more teeth to crack out.
You can see Michelle waiting with the children, the president now greets the crowd, he takes his oath, and now he's speaking to the people.
If, Cyril, you do it very quickly, you will see that we have these amazing images of ladies, I guess, in waiting or posing.
Then, during input delivery, we rent hundreds of 10-ton trucks and send them out to where farmers are waiting in the field.
But these are temporary columns, waiting in purgatory, to be placed in the very counties where these lynchings occurred.
What are you waiting for?
So begins a vexing cycle in which the two debate when Godot will come, why they’re waiting, and whether they’re even at the right tree.
Tragically, the characters are locked in an existential conundrum: they wait in vain for an unknown figure to give them a sense of purpose, but their only sense of purpose comes from the act of waiting, While they wait, they sink into boredom, express religious dread and contemplate suicide.
And although a tidy narrative still appeals, the best theatre keeps us thinking – and waiting.
We were calling out our names, a little bit like a roll call, waiting for responses.
Lost and waiting for you.
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