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The children will be a drag on me, so I want to go without them.
Without its refreshing aid, our worn out habits would scarcely be able to drag on a few days, or at most, a few weeks, before the vital spring would be quite run down: how properly therefore has our great poet called sleep "the chief nourisher in life's feast!" From the internal sensations, often excited, it is natural to conclude, that the nerves of sense are not torpid during sleep, but that they are only precluded from the perception of external objects, by the external organs being in some way or other rendered unfit to transmit to them the impulses of bodies during the suspension of the power of volition; thus the eyelids are closed, in sleep, to prevent the impulse of light from acting on the optic nerve; and it is very probable that the drum of the ear is not stretched; it seems likewise reasonable to conclude, that something similar happens to the external apparatus of all our organs of sense, which may make them unfit for their office of perception during sleep.
Why, such claims may drag on for years before a committee of the House of Lords.
Wretched and sinful as I am, I have had no other thought than to drag on my earthly existence in the sphere where Providence hath placed me.
They’ll have children, they won’t be able to keep us; it’s a drag on them as it is.
If none is reached, appeals may drag on for years, experts say.
Talk about a drag on the show.
Pundits agreed that the GOP won the battle and lost the war: Gingrich's ethics case will drag on through congressional hearings, the GOP will then force the House Ethics Committee to close the case, enabling Democrats to cry "cover-up" for months afterward, members will have to vote again on his punishment, he'll be distracted, tarnished, and weakened, having lost prestige and twisted arms just to get re-elected, he'll have no clout left to keep his troops in line, the Republican policy agenda will languish, Gingrich will be forced to make concessions to Clinton in order to pass legislation and repair his own image, and, above all, Democrats will sing from Gingrich's rap sheet throughout the coming hearings on Clinton's ethical troubles.
" Ready for another high-profile digital anti-trust case that will no doubt also drag on for years?
The Wall Street Journal weighs in with the only other potential drag on the U.
] A scene just before the intermission, when the family is sitting down for the Jewish satyr, does drag on a bit, but otherwise, the pace of the humor is right on.
Overwhelming kindness is not only tiresome and often annoying, but a serious drag on one who is ill.
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