We are not a people who sit back and wait for things to happen.
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Then they sit back and wait for the answer, probing further if they need to.
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So, we can't simply sit back and wait optimistically for everything to work out.
They work step by step, and they are content to sit back and wait for promotions.
And yes, we didn't sit back and wait for Wall Street to roll over us again, we went after them too.
Both parties have to make the effort to meet in the middle, not just sit back and wait for the other to conform.
On the European side, it would be a mistake to sit back and wait for a sea-change in Tory attitudes once the party is in power.
Rather than step in when performance flags, many prefer to sell the shares or sit back and wait for a free ride on the activism of others.
It is almost as if it is so exasperated by the flaky achievements of its previous anti-deflationary efforts that it would rather sit back and wait for a recovery.
But with high school guidance counselors stretched beyond capacity with non-college issues, and responsible for 250-1, 000 students each, a career plan is not likely to happen for the student and parents that sit back and wait.
As the suitors of ABN Amro sit back and wait for the results of legal disputes on their bids, the Dutch bank may start worring about losing key employees who don't want to wait around to see what their jobs will look like under new ownership.
We shall start immediately because it will be my joint top priorities together with getting the police and the sentencing system right, we shall start immediately, obviously we won't have places there for everybody in the first five minutes, nor will I sit back and wait until all the places are on-stream.
All that means that the party cannot sit back and simply wait for Tony Blair to trip up.
There's nothing we can do - we can't hold back nature so we've just got to sit and wait.
So in the aftermath of a default, creditors would in theory have to sit still and wait over many years to find out what Greece either could or would want to pay back.
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