• If successive secretaries of state wait until there's an all-party consensus at Stormont on the need for an opposition, then they will wait a long time.

    BBC: Promises easy to make in opposition

  • But lawmakers ultimately didn't approve the credit, arguing the state should wait to see if tax collections improved by the end of the year.

    WSJ: For Tax Cut

  • According to California Assembly rules, state legislators must wait a year before attempting to reintroduce this legislation.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • For big insurers, frustrated at having to be regulated state by state, the wait for an optional federal charter goes on.

    ECONOMIST: Financial reform in America

  • Police closed all the main roads and highways near Tahrir Square, and vehicles were not allowed to stop or wait near the square, state-run al-Ahram newspaper reported.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has said she will wait to see what the state legislature does before deciding whether to appeal the ruling to the Supreme Court.

    WSJ: High court weighs taking up new case on gun rights

  • In the name of promoting the peace process, he has thereby encouraged the Palestinians (who remain un-reconciled to a true peace with the Jewish State) to wait for him to extract concessions from the Israelis.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: One more time

  • New York state police vowed to wait out Kurt Myers, the man suspected of gunning down four people then holing up in an abandoned building.

    WSJ: Rampage kills 4, shatters peace in 2 NY villages

  • Even more simply, that's why the state trooper sits in wait along the highway to deter us from exceeding the speed limit and to punish us (with fines, points, etc.) when we're caught doing so.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • One seeks to force the state's schoolteachers to wait for five years, instead of two, before they attain permanent status.

    ECONOMIST: Arnold Schwarzenegger: A hard slog | The

  • Among Democrats, at least two governors who appear to have aspirations beyond their states Cuomo and O'Malley are pushing progressive agendas that pull the heartstrings of the party faithful even as many activists wait to see whether former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton or Vice President Joe Biden will try to succeed Obama.

    WSJ: New generation of governors seeking the limelight

  • Or are we able to get things going earlier, not wait for that declaration without waiting for the state to be overwhelmed to get ready?

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • The palace's State Dining Room, where we wait for the president, is a grand, lavish affair, complete with chandeliers and a long hardwood table that can seat 50.

    CNN: DAYS OF THEIR LIVES

  • Now, as Bankia sucks up financial aid, Spaniards wait to hear news of cuts to their welfare state.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • But the residents of Newtown didn't appear to be content to wait for Washington to move, calling their home state to take action.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • The way to stabilise a chaotic heart would be to wait until it comes closer to a more periodic state and then give it a small electric shock to nudge it into that state.

    ECONOMIST: Better living through chaos

  • Bank privatisation can wait until 2000, says Mr Zeman, even though state-owned banks are the main culprits in the mismanagement of Czech enterprise.

    ECONOMIST: Czech Republic

  • It notes that the State Department is exceeding the President's interview wait time goal - earlier this summer 85 percent of applicants worldwide were being interviewed for visas within three weeks of submitting their applications and currently the figure is up to 88 percent.

    WHITEHOUSE: Our Top Stories

  • To judge by the state of American public opinion, he may have quite a wait.

    ECONOMIST: Obduracy in the face of hypocrisy

  • Is he going to provide tax breaks to get a nanny for all the children (wait, that would not work because it would then be a nanny state).

    FORBES: A Binder Full Of Women And Why They Need Health Reform

  • U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice telephoned Erdogan on Sunday and reportedly asked him to wait a few more days before taking action.

    NPR: Kurdish Rebels Attack Turkish Force at Border

  • But for more on that, I think we'll have to wait and see if there's a reaction that might come from the State Department.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney,

  • After that, they will need to wait for several days - a period of reflection - before being able to state their final decision.

    BBC: Uruguay legalises abortion

  • If we want leadership on this issue, the State of the Union speech sadly signals that we may need to wait until this can-kicker leaves office.

    FORBES: Bullets vs. Band-aids: Is Health Spending Crowding out Defense?

  • In another departure from Vietnam practice, conscientious objectors cannot state their opposition to war when they register, but have to wait to present their claim to a local board if the draft reappears.

    ECONOMIST: Conscription��s lively ghost

  • We expect that Governor Cuomo will listen to scientists and medical experts and let evidence dictate whether or not to lift our state's moratorium, and we further expect that he will wait for national studies and a real New York-specific study.

    NPR: AP: NY Fracking Held As Cuomo, RFK Jr. Talk Health

  • The Democrats and the teachers want to wait another year, when a study of appropriate standards for student achievement in the state is expected to be ready.

    ECONOMIST: Mine! No, mine!

  • Although Italian men must wait until 65 before they officially qualify for an old-age pension from the state, those who have got 35 years of contributions under their belts can retire and draw state pensions when they are 57.

    ECONOMIST: Italian pensions

  • So he is not prepared to wait for the private sector to create jobs, but has embarked on an ambitious state job-creation scheme, which will recruit tens of thousands of young people to work in job centres, town halls, sports stadiums and the like.

    ECONOMIST: Gloom in France

  • Don't wait until January to mail in your next mortgage payment, and pre-pay the estimated state and local taxes for the first quarter, for instance.

    FORBES: The Counter-Intuitive Tax

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