How To Use Bench In A Sentence

It would almost be better to have no backbench bills at all than the current system, which offers a false glimmer of hope. Times, Sunday Times
Save for a worktable placed almost exactly in the center of the floor, I see only a few benches, some unlit rush lamps, a large set of scales, and a wooden crate, which I discover upon examination contains small crystal vials waiting to be filled. Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer
Physicians and hospitals fear the practice could unfairly penalize practitioners and say there's no way to benchmark quality accurately.
Rising up off a stone bench that stood in a shadowy area out of the torchlight was a dark, robed figure. Dragons of Winter Night
Two rows behind the bench sits a sweet-faced junior college girl who just announced her intention to play for Oregon next year.

Inside, Ms. Savage accented the home's 16-foot coved ceilings—original from 1926—and espresso-colored floors with earth-toned couches and classic pieces, using a long wooden bench as a living room coffee table. A Gossip Girl's Main Stage
When Yahoo bureaucracy rules, people die in the health services and the aged in nursing homes are victimised while benchmark payments are pocketed.
One of the men with him gave up his place on the bench.
He lays it down on the workbench and stands there, staring out the window.
With three players cup-tied, one suspended and another released this month, there will be four familiar names missing, and some unfamiliar ones on the bench.
I had given my replacement my helmet, and I sat on the bench seat deaf and dumb.
Jumping over a bench in P.E. class isn't creative, but parkour forces you to think about how you can jump.
Can't wait to see Ryan score the title clincher v Stoke in front of the Stretford End the week before he flies of to Madrid for the final. this is a big big game so I don't think he should start straight from injury, off the bench maybe .... you know give him a run out when we're 4-0 up: p Manchester Evening News - RSS Feed
Artemesia moved to the pianoforte that was along one of the walls, and sat down on the bench, facing away from the instrument and towards Scott.
A reaction induced on the laboratory bench may, like yeast in inert dough, leaven the whole of mankind, lightening and lifting it to heights undreamed of by its ancestors. The Contribution of Creative Chemistry to the Humanities
His wife, Belinda, recently retired as a magistrate on the Kennet bench after 22 years and now the couple can enjoy their retirement.
The mock-up design featured access by ramps to all raised spaces, including the judge's bench, witness stand, jury box, and clerk stations.
The soft cushions were so much more comfortable than the hard bench of the wagon.
The book has been hailed as a benchmark in the debate on communication and social transformation.
If that doesn't change soon, the mutinous backbench mood could reach boiling point. Times, Sunday Times
I had given my replacement my helmet, and I sat on the bench seat deaf and dumb.
The bank kept its benchmark rate unchanged at 9%, where it has been since November, and the rediscount rate at 12%, after raising it from 7% last month. Vietnam Raises Rates
Your hardware vendor should have benchmark data stating the expected Memory, CPU (FLOPS), Disk, and Network performance.
By analyzing current teaching status of bench work specialty in middle vocational schools, this paper presents the thoughts and methods to reform the teaching pattern of bench work specialty.
Cameron's amendment would render the proposed backbench business committee "flimsier" than it otherwise could be, he added. Epolitix News
Once facility executives understand actual energy consumption, they can begin benchmarking their buildings against their competitors and even their own real estate.
But she was advertising from the piano bench and specializing in private sessions to augment her income after her musical workday.
And they've created this LEED standard, [for rating how energy efficient and green a building is] which is benchmarking, which is a good thing to do because most people need checklists. William McDonough On Cradle-To-Cradle Design
The workbench is her favorite right now; using the screwdriver fascinates her. Garage Sale Loot and Cooking Limbo
We sat down on the park bench and watched the children play.
I was walking in the mall and for the first time ever, I needed to sit on a bench just to rest.
Over there on the Opposition benches is a National Party that has no real purpose.
But again, if the subject is sensitive, the colloquy among the attorneys, prospective jurors, and judge can be held privately at the bench.
To my left were a weight bench and a long horizontal bar that was built into the wall.
After you deploy this demo application into the device in eWorkbench, you will see the icon shown in the Preference Demo Application list.
For some time I sat upon a bench, what she called a craft table, and waited with other scraps of this and that. Where is Love?
Judge Porteous also engaged in corrupt conduct after the Lifemark v. Liljeberg bench trial, and while he had the case under advisement, in that he solicited and accepted things of value from both Amato and his law partner Creely, including a payment of thousands of dollars in cash. The Volokh Conspiracy » “Judge Thomas Porteous Impeached by U.S. House of Representatives,”
Finally, the servo test bench and airborne antenna pedestal for parametric modeling and simulation to illustrate the usefulness of this analysis platform.
Most Labour MPs who quit the front bench will return only if elections are held. Times, Sunday Times
You do not put big players on the bench for big games. The Sun
We don't want him sitting on a bench long. Times, Sunday Times
Labour backbenchers are confident the last tally-ho will soon echo across Britain's countryside.
The helmet is designed to limit the rotational forces affecting the head during an impact and is currently undergoing bench tests.
The other has led a child-free life based in the back of the wardrobe, waiting on the substitute's bench in case of death, dissolution or disappearance of the main player.
But here he is, threatening to go on and on, surrounded by fawning Labour ministers, backbenchers and constituency delegates.
The physical model of cantilever board in bench blasting is firstly presented and based on the hypothesis, a formula for calculating the charge weight in the MS delay bench blasting is also derived.
But I'd look between the benches at young master Charles on the playing field and think, that's where I should be.
Spotlights dance down on 216 jewels of lead crystal, set in dazzling diamond patterns into the piano's black lid, sides, legs, fallboard and bench. News & Record Article Feed
Looms, beds, tables, chairs, stools and benches were made of wood as well.
You do not put big players on the bench for big games. The Sun
On its ground floor, executive director Amy Tobin showed me some salvaged-wood tables, benches, and a lustrously smooth black-acacia countertop created by Paul Discoe, an ordained Buddhist priest whose Oakland-based company, Live Edge, utilizes lumber from urban street trees that have been cut down due to storm damage, disease, and other reasons. Anneli Rufus: Rainwater Toilets and Slag: Touring Berkeley's Greenest Building
He quickly drew back and slid towards the opposite edge of the bench, blushing furiously.
Players go to the bench when they are in foul trouble, Melo had 4 fouls when he was "benched". Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
He said it was easier to substitute field players who got injured but not so for a goalkeeper when he was alone on the bench.
The benchmark price for a barrel of crude for delivery in December slipped below $20 as the slowdown in the world economy, coupled with the warm winter, has caused demand to fall.
The Opposition front bench, and most of the other Opposition benches as well, would be occupied by the Conservatives.
Also, standard benchmarks establish a relative performance value between systems, which is good information.
To give it a completely realistic touch, there is even the bench at the edge of the spring and pool, a vantage photographic point that Presidents and commoners alike choose, to record their visit.
But bad behaviour is on the increase since the town council replaced the benches last month, they said.
But the opener did turn a bit testy in the eighth inning when Grant Balfour hit J.D. Drew in the right shoulder with a high fastball, prompting a few Red Sox to holler from the bench. Dice-K masterful as Red Sox beat Rays in ALCS opener
The wisdom of the retired generals and backbench MPs conjoins.
If you want to be a powerlifter, then there are specific training regimens you can follow to increase your poundage for your bench, squat and deadlift.
Mr. Wyden has been campaigning for such a reform for years from the Democratic backbenches. The Wyden-Ryan Breakthrough
The rookie complained that the coach kept him mostly on the bench.
They tucked their shoes under the bench and walked to the entry that led onto the rink.
Spectators standing in the pit or seated on hard benches in the gallery are visible in the daylight and there is a constant feeling of motion that animates the geometries of the theatre's space.
And as I sat on th 'bench i' th 'garden -- same bench as yo' saw me sittin 'on this afternoon -- my missis coome to th' dur, and hoo said, "Enoch, what doesto think? Lancashire Idylls (1898)
They go to work early in the morning, sit at work benches or in front of machines and perform the same repetitive tasks all day.
It is against this backcloth that the Spanish budget-cutting has been announced, and it will be taken as a benchmark for other euro-zone countries with high budget deficits. Spain Is Simply Shifting the Problem
I suggest that we sit down for a moment on a nearby bench, which is miraculously free of dossers and bank clerks.
“if a man slea the chancellor, treasurer, or the Kingâ€ ™ s justices of the one bench or the other, justices in eyre, or justices of assise, and all other justices assigned to hear and determine, being in their places, doing their offices”. Think Progress » Bushâ€™s Iraq PR Campaign Falling Flat
They are separated by panels of chain fencing and the space between dotted with waste bins and park benches.
Players and staff from both benches aimed kicks and punches at each other at the final whistle before fans invaded the pitch. The Sun
The reference to text messages provoked hilarity on the opposition benches. Times, Sunday Times
The other sniper was crouched behind a rusted workbench close to the main doorway.
He promised to nominate strict conservative constructionists to the federal bench.
It has the usual seating arrangement three seats across the front and bench seats along each side of the back.
Benches are ideal as space-saving dining room seating.
The new salary deal for railway workers will be a bench mark for pay settlements in the public sector.
New York shot 60 percent in the third quarter, charging back to grab an 89-88 lead on Robinson's 3-pointer with 1: 05 remaining, about the time a disgusted Kenyon Martin began cursing from the Nuggets 'bench about letting the Knicks hang around. USATODAY.com
Wiping up sawdust, on the shop workbench, from drilling or sandpapering is easy.
Miller was riding the bench in Saturday's game
Full back Marcus Bignot could come back into the reckoning after recovering from a knee ligament injury that has ruled him out since the second game of the season, but will more than likely start on the bench.
You know I always wonder about the kind of people who sit on these judges benches and pass judgment over people.
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He was sitting on a picnic bench, leaning forward while Jane was grabbing on for a piggyback ride.
If he does, tradition demands that he can claim a seat on the Treasury bench.
So he met Chris Spitler, a Holy Cross guard proud to be a four-year walk-on who, through the seasons, worked his way from the end of the bench into the starting lineup.
This paper presented a comprehensive laboratory bench for building environment & services engineering.
Far up the gorge dense clouds of black smoke swooped down from the benchland. Raw Gold A Novel
He was sitting on a bench, he was jumping up and down while watching a monitor. The Sun
He said there was a groundswell of opinion among backbenchers, and said he had been involved with a statement released detailing the plans.
Oversized wooden gallery benches made for the show are painted with exaggerated woodgrain patterns.
From the public benches one could hear people release their breath with a deep sigh. Times, Sunday Times
But that does not mean that Roberts’ trip to the high bench will be a cakewalk, nor should it be.
Our writings serve as the academy's benchmarks, the ethical touchstones for the noblest of professions.
Chinese stocks have nearly sextupled in value in just two years and set yet another record yesterday, when the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index catapulted above 6000 for the first time. China's Stock Surge Raises
He is the undisputed backbench champion of the well-publicized empty gesture.
He then attempted to unscrew the lower part of the projectile, and when he found he could not open it, he started banging it on the long bench that he and his friends were sitting on.
Go for a stroll and look for a park bench. The Sun
The runaway car careered into a bench, hitting an elderly couple.
The Bench ordered that the net and rabbits should be forfeit.
Out of the corner of her eye she saw a few people stand up from the bus stop bench. BETRAYED
He is queasy about plans to set up a new group on the back benches. Times, Sunday Times
Certain exercises will also require a bench or stands. Shape Your Body, Shape Your Life
Natural benches made from salvaged timber piling from jetties on the Thames are to be placed along the route.
Here are old buses with wooden bench seats, and farmers riding donkeys.
The Italian has been one of the best keepers in English football for quite a while now and it would be cruel if he were to spend the majority of this season on the bench.
All indications are, of course, here in Washington, as we've been reporting, the notion of timetables, time frames, projections, whatever you want to call it, putting the pressure on Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to begin to set some benchmarks. CNN Transcript Oct 24, 2006
The quality of the Festivals are benchmarks in global standards and local multinational brands and corporate houses have reposed their faith in them by becoming partners to the growth of the DSF.
Benchmarking your business against industry peers, however, will help you to understand your own competitive position in the marketplace and will help you to design strategies to outdistance your competitors.
Holding her painful back, she sat down gingerly on the bench.
In thirteen weeks the builders demolished the old gallery and amphitheatre, and constructed a new large amphitheatre with 600 seats instead of benches. A TALE OF FOUR HOUSES: Opera at Covent Garden, La Scala, Vienna and the Met since 1945
Eddie Griffin chipped in 15 off the bench as the Minnesota USATODAY.com
As a mere backbencher I'm not privy to negotiations that go on.
You do not put big players on the bench for big games. The Sun
But former city Lord Mayor Cllr Dermot Lacey (Lab) says there is opposition to the new post from a 'coalition of Fianna Fáil backbenchers and bureaucrats' who want to 'stymie' RTÉ News
Some of the Government front bench still believe our relationship with the US is paramount.
He was benched by the head coach in the third quarter, something that should have been done a couple of weeks ago.
A console table, bench, mirror and clothes hangers are also available. Times, Sunday Times
Severin's 1976-77 Brendan expedition became his benchmark for exhaustive research and methodical preparation.
No harder than your heart, nor colder is the hard, cold ersite of this thrice happy bench which supports your divine and fadeless form! Thuvia, Maid of Mars
With the jeering and catcalling from the Government benches, I missed the answer.
But the Bench refused to stay the proceedings after Jordan had contended he had been prejudiced by undue, unconscionable and inordinate delay since the raid two years ago.
I can remember the sun slanting down onto the honey-coloured wood of the lab bench.
Bench and table feet are particularly susceptible. Times, Sunday Times
John King's Sunday programming, State of the Union, is a benchmark in unbiased newscasting of current events – I hope his replacement program of Lou Dobbs maintains the high standards he has established with State of the Union. walter keller John King to replace Lou Dobbs
A barrister must have the confidence of the Bench.
I'd a letter today from an old person giving out about skateboarders on these new benches.
Today, he said, the most popular places for people to meet or mingle at AvalonBay's various suburban complexes around the state are at the dog runs, which offer benches for the humans - or else the outdoor "cucina" cooking areas and rooftop decks. NYT > Home Page
There are also leadwork, bench-work and gas appliance areas. The Sun
We depend on those things, and they set the benchmark for how well we live in this country.
After being honourably acquitted, he relumed his feat upon the bench, and made the following fpeech; which, confidered in a general way, is admirable both with refpecft to matter and form, though the propriety of applying it to the particular occafion may be queftioned, as the petitioners were neither rioters nor inlurgents, nor men who had othTwile violated the public peace. The history of America, : from its discovery by Columbus to the conclusion of the late war. : With an appendix, containing an account of the rise and progress of the present unhappy contest between Great Britain and her colonies.
A less expensive pedestrianization strategy was to close selected streets to traffic and add benches, landscaping, and fountains. Makeshift Metropolis
New York's benchmark contract, light sweet crude for delivery in July, rose 29 cents to US $38.75 a barrel.
He chatted with a vendor at the candle shop and leaned against the park bench.
Can't be too pedicular in a pinch," he grinned as he wriggled dubiously into the dry garments, and in a few minutes he was seated beside the girl upon a rough bench drawn close to the fire. The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest
His lawyer turned to address the bench.
Over time, as more lawyers who had regularly argued before the court or had been law professors joined the bench, the tone livened up. 'Dynamic' duo of Kagan, Sotomayor add vigor to court
Yi was incredibly active on both ends of the floor, as the 7-footer came off the bench to record a double-double with 11 points and 10 rebounds. Flip Saunders pleased with Wizards' energy in win over Dallas
Certain exercises will also require a bench or stands. Shape Your Body, Shape Your Life
Proposition 22, which defined marriage to be between a man and a woman and adopted by California voters on March 7, 2000 with 61.4% in favor, was hijacked along with the California Legislative Branch by the Tyrannical Justices of the California Supreme Court which legislated from the bench in direct violation of the California Constitution and managed to null the will of the people and declare Proposition 22 unconstitutional. California becomes second U.S. state to legalize gay marriage : Law is Cool
Its times like this i thank God i was born and bred in Aus! why is it when someone complains about, the mess around our island someone else has to try and turn the whole scene around, justiffing what is true and what is not. we dont need photos to poove a point? just walk down the sliema / gzira sea front after a saterday or sunday evening and open your eyes. its a shambles. plastic bottles undar benches. waste from take aways ect. Timesofmalta.com
In places it is punctured by bollards and peeled back to form benches, revealing glazed voids packed with multi-coloured fluorescent tubes that scintillate seductively with kaleidoscopic light.
At one of its long edges, the top extends upward, benchlike, to form a backboard; the two perpendicular surfaces are fitted with a single inlaid sheet of medium-density fiberboard.
By the benchmark of the Rwandan civil war, it would barely rate a mention.
His case was due to be heard today in the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court in London.
As a bonus, you also have the opportunity to build two other benches, including a rocking patio glider and a gazebo bench, at a special price.
Alternatively, fruits were harvested at the ripe stage and left to overripen for 2 d at 21°C on the laboratory bench.
At the far end was a kind of semicircular nave with built-in benches, which reminded me of a sauna. Archive 2006-08-01
And while banca at first referred strictly to the old money-changing workbench, it soon came to refer to something else: the place where money or valuables were “mounded,” “piled,” “raised up,” or simply “banked.” The English Is Coming!
There is a fieldstone path leading to the bench and bisecting the garden.
There are stone benches, wrought-iron fences and gates, wall fountains, pots, pillars, and antique baskets.
The square, another bench mark, has the smallest contour ratio of all quadrilaterals.
Using the edge of your workbench as a straightedge for the square, draw a set of nice black lines across the mounting marks, so you have a good visual reference.
Benches are more flexible than stools or individual seats because you can squeeze in more people along them.
The thick-bodied, heavy-sinewed Gialaurys sat hunched on a backless bench to Prestimion ' s left. LORD PRESTIMION
A half-dozen young skaters with boards under their arms sit down on a long bench up against the wood.
He comes off the bench and finishes smartly from the edge of the area. The Sun
The discovery of two inkwells and a plastered table and bench strongly suggested that one of the rooms was a scriptorium, a room set apart for writing or copying manuscripts.
The walls were covered with pictures and over the workbench was a cupboard containing books and songs; the little kitchen was full of shining plates and metal pans or by means of a ladder it was possible to go out on the roof where, in the gutters between it and the neighbor's house, there was a great chest filled with soil. Archive 2006-01-01
The little bench, trug and watering can fit into my sneakers, safe and sound in the checked bag. Plants And Pals From Buffa10 « Fairegarden
Lie flat on your back with your legs straight, heels resting on a bench or chair and arms stretched out on the floor in crucifix position. Times, Sunday Times
However, I found the perennial Russian babushkas, old ladies who usually chat on the benches, and they pointed out the library, which is small and unimposing.
This Bush-appointed SCOTUS is going to contribute to our downfall — they have already legislated from the bench, and will continue to favor corporations and business over the people. Think Progress » ThinkFast: March 1, 2010
He was appointed to the federal bench by President Clinton and picked by the Chief Justice to serve on the spy court.
Try these outside the box techniques: close grip bench press floor bench press (elbows on the floor) pin press* board press* EveryJoe
The key parts of the bench are the front and back legs - both have mitered corner joints and rounded bottoms.
One evening while Fahrquhar and his wife were sitting on a rustic bench near the entrance to his grounds, a gray-clad soldier rode up to the gate and asked for a drink of water.
They finally took a seat on a stone bench located near one tiny pond within the back garden.
As a matter of fact, most so called health nuts don't even scratch the surface of healthy living anyway, no matter how much they can bench press.
At Montgomery Blair High School, Francis was academically ineligible as a freshman, and then a third string varsity bench warmer as a sophomore.
The judges - Sir Igor Judge, the lord chief justice; Lord Neuberger, the master of the rolls; and Sir Anthony May, president of the Queen's Bench - also stressed the importance of the media in supporting the principle of open justice in a case which, they said, raised issues of "fundamental importance", of "democratic accountability and … the rule of law itself". The Guardian World News
Snyder is like wasted potential rotting on the bench.
Expect, too, plenty of backbenchers to step forward fearlessly to criticise the leadership.
Consider dual-purpose benches, for example, that can incorporate storage chests beneath the seat. Times, Sunday Times
She has recently been appointed to the bench.
The gummite, injecting funds into the economy in time of financial hardship GFC, from the Mining revenue is fine, but long term it creates an artificial bench mark which at some point usually goes pop. Cheeseburger Gothic » Where’s my big fat tax cut?
Use ladderback chairs, rocking chairs, benches, wicker furniture and Windsor chairs.
History underscores just how sensitive management of backbench relations can be in a coalition government. Times, Sunday Times
Because no rifle - not even a match-tuned masterpiece of the gunsmith's art - can shoot off a rickety, wobbly bench.
While most youthful tyros either head across the Atlantic or idle uncomfortably on the benches of domestic clubs, Horne took matters into his own hands to accelerate his learning curve.
The ruins are part of a beautiful and romantically overgrown walled garden, with grass and benches. Times, Sunday Times
Not one backbench Labour MP spoke in the government's support.
There's Actroid, a mannequinesque gynoid who wows corporate guests with her dynamic facial expressions and cheeky conversation skills (ask her how much she weighs, and she'll tell you what she can bench-press). Why Should We Be Friends?
We sat on a park bench and talked.
Therefore carries on the transformation in the original Qinchuan QCS 002 hydraulic pressure teaching laboratory bench foundation.
They have a greed and a lust for the Treasury benches and they will do anything to destroy the fabric of a nation going forward.
Taking a closer look, every fast-food restaurant points to its drive-through window as the benchmark for its service performance.
Of his white flannel suit with our bench-legged fyce! Love-Songs of Childhood
She has recently been appointed to the bench.
The joy among backbenchers when McCreevy announced the programme last December was almost unconfined, as they scurried off to their constituencies to bask in the good news.
Exercises such as flat and incline bench press, leg press, squats, shoulder presses, rows, inverted rows and lat pulldowns should be used by ectomorphs to gain strength.
He chatted with a vendor at the candle shop and leaned against the park bench.
He was a respected contributor to debates from the furthermost back bench. Archive 2008-06-01
Before they knew it, the skate was already over, and pretty soon, it was just the two of them left in the dressing room, sitting beside each other on a bench and unlacing their skates.
Mr Morgan, 46, repeatedly demanded on Tuesday night that the 40-year-old Tory backbencher withdraw her allegation, which he described as an "absolute, blatant lie". Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
From his little seat over there on the Opposition benches Dail Jones squealed that we should have double the number of police.
Try squats and lunges to boost leg strength or bench pressing weights to boost the upper body. The Sun
Lower profit margins would be acceptable, but for the lower-than-expected revenue growth numbers," said Fred Moran, an analyst at The Benchmark Co.

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