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The new Commons Speaker John Bercow has begun his first full session in the role by telling the House to avoid long-winded questions and answers.

Moreover, by using short phrases, the executive shows that he is truly interested in the person and not merely in eliciting attention and/or admiration with long-winded, repetitious lectures about actions that should be taken, but that no one in the organization is willing or wants to implement.

Using a visual, picture and example-centered approach to show how to perform basic tasks, C programming eschews long-winded passages for direct results and an easy-to-follow system for immediately looking up what one most needs to know.

While the listener might occasionally like to shake the characters to get them to pay better attention, Michael patiently takes the reader by the hand and leads them through long-winded crypto-computer-techno-babble and suspense that seems never to come to an end.

The book details the core elements of cryptography that the average user needs to understand, leaving the theoretical topics to more long-winded texts.

Judging from his book, Dean clearly loved being governor of Vermont, and the way he writes at length about his accomplishments there is reminiscent of Clinton's long-winded and popular State of the Union addresses where he mentioned every possible program and achievement his administration had undertaken.

Others are more contrived, like the ghastly wedges of cement and steel that commemorate the long-winded, orgiastically self-referential demolition derby in CREMASTER3: Five mint Chrysler Imperials from 1967 (the year of Barney's birth) destroy a customized Chrysler Imperial New Yorker from 1938 (the year of his father's birth and only one year off Serra's).

Hollywood and Anti-Semitism reads like a doctoral dissertation or a long-winded classroom lecture.

A few other liberal arts/science contrasts: Prefer numerical data to long-winded verbal explanations: 43 percent to 78 percent; place importance on advertising: 34 percent to 40 percent; and place importance on the contents of television dramas: 17 percent to 22 percent.

Many people say things to themselves like, "I can do this," or, "I have nothing to wear!" or, "Why hasn't he called?" or, "I can't believe school's about to start." As long as your solo conversations are not long-winded, there's no reason to worry.

Arbitrators will also allow sometimes long-winded and irrelevant testimony to go on and on.

Instead we are stuck with boozy barroom conversations of staggering self-absorption and race-driven social anxiety, as well as long-winded, pseudo-profound pronounciamentos on the nature of "Art" and "Creativity."

"Diffuse means to scatter, or as an adjective, scattered or long-winded."

"I got this really long-winded letter from this minister who went off on the fact that I picked on George Bush, but he said nothing about the fact that I was gay!" she recalls with a laugh.--S.G.

The court, however, apparently did not look at the full text, which used "period of assessment" as shorthand only after a long-winded reference to the "period for assessment for partnership items." All subsequent references are to "period for assessment." There is no reason to think that the legislative history is referring to any limitation period, because it never refers to the general limitation period in Sec.