This is especially true in the complicated pas de deux of work e-mails -- you can have a long volley to figure something out (a plan, a meeting, a detail, whatever), or you can pick up the phone and just hash it out.
He stood on the stage for what seemed like a long time, a solitary figure in a simple black jacket with his arms at his sides, as if simply absorbing the intensity of a crowd illuminated by high-powered spotlights.
That took me a long time to figure out, and I still struggle with it sometimes.
But, no, it took a long time to figure out how long to stir, how fast to stir.
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It seems to most like Sony was slow to respond, but it appears that it genuinely took them a long time to figure out just what the hell exactly had happened.
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While we all agree that Larry Page and Barack Obama may have to put work first pretty much all the time, we have a long way to go to figure out, as a workforce, those more subtle question.
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As long as a public figure is willing to admit fault and demonstrate some level of contrition, Americans at some point will generally forgive.
Mr Ashraf has long been a senior figure in the PPP, and has twice been a minister in the government which has been in power since 2008.
Mr. Suozzi was something of a transformational figure in Long Island politics when, in 2001, he defeated Nassau's powerful Republican establishment and became the first Democrat to lead the county in three decades.
As long as a figure like Bob Michel was Minority Leader and the Republicans were tame, malleable creatures -- content with a little pork and to accept dhimmitude under the Democrats -- the Majority party had no problem with them.
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But again the dreams of an appropriately sized endowment were postponed, and Mr. Beal and trustees again tried to figure out a long-term strategy to stabilize the museum's finances.
He called it the phonograph, and it took a long time for librarians to figure out that the echoes of speech and music that Edison and his successors etched on discs were as important a part of our collective memory as the words that Johannes Gutenberg and his successors printed on paper.
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She cannot speak the Ariekei tongue, but she is an indelible part of it, having long ago been made a figure of speech, a living simile in their language.
"It's surprising to me that it's taken someone so long to figure out a way that we can track each towel and create some sort of towel accountability, " he said.
Strolling from my office, I saw a small figure in black hat and long coat walking toward me.
When I arrived not long ago, I encountered a figure in a rotund cartoon-dog suit, waving strenuously in the heat.
And John Meriwether, a figure of widespread ignominy after Long-Term Capital collapsed, has simply launched a new hedge fund, JMW Partners.
There is a local figure, famous for carrying a long pole over his shoulder, painted with barber stripes.
Relied on by generations of Indians for tilling fields, dairy products and dung fuel, the cow is regarded by Hindus as gau mata, or maternal figure, and has had a long-standing central role in India's religious rituals.
Scientists still have a long way to go, however, before they figure out how the wiring works.
King Idriss was at least a unifying figure for a country that had not long been unified and had been independent only since 1951.
And then through the door, the figure of a slender man with a long white beard and a stack of RFCs in his hands showed up.
This may be a start, but it will be a long time before patients will truly be able to figure out how much things in health care really cost.
DeSantis: From a long-term perspective, banks are very hard to figure out.
An accurate understanding of behavior helps parents figure out appropriate responses that have a positive long-term impact on healthy social, emotional and cognitive growth.
The U.S. military has a long tradition of conducting war games, not so much to predict whether a war will occur, but to figure out how to use new weapons, how to best organize the military and how political considerations might shape the conduct of war.
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We expect the figure to stay in a similar range in the long term.
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TARA's founders, raves about a recent find in the Tassili n'Ajjer range: an anatomically perfect four-metre-long carving of a hippo hunted by an Egyptian-looking figure with a superbly sinuous bow.
Eriksson remains a popular figure in Nottingham for sticking with the club for so long after their financial predicament was first revealed.
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