Many would probably prefer to be only a short walk from the office in the morning and a drunken stagger back from the bars at night.
We stagger round with the Platonic idea that we can love only one other person.
A consequence of this stagger on the x-ray diffraction pattern would be a marked enhancement of the 1.1 and 2.2 reflections.
I kept expecting someone to make up the stagger on me, and pull alongside, but it never happened.
I felt surprisingly smooth and relaxed as I rounded the first turn and found myself making up the stagger on the runners on my outside.
In the Atrium there is a huge glass window overlooking the Arcade where you can sit and watch the world and his wife stagger by.
He also welcomed plans to stagger parking bays along the one-way road to create chicanes to slow vehicles.
Porters stagger towards the First Class under a mountain of smart packing cases and trunks.
Young people, many of them still at school stagger out of the pub, intoxicated, paralytic from drinking too much alcohol.
Also, try and stagger the toenails on each side of the board, rather than placing all of them on one side.
City pubs are often now full of roaring fools, building up enough Dutch courage to stagger into the nearest fleshpot.
So, why is it not possible to stagger half term and summer breaks for maybe a week by county?
On returning a drunken someone would make it back to the door, fling it open and stagger through it, forgetting to shut it at all.
Flag yourself after a few cosmopolitans and carefully stagger your way home.
I lurch out of the door, point myself unsteadily in the direction of my student house, and stagger through the empty streets.
Not everybody wants to go out, get legless and stagger into a nightclub because there's nowhere else to get a drink after midnight.
Democracies sometimes stagger into problems whose solution stretches and even breaks the normal rules of democratic legitimacy.
In design terms it's a dog's breakfast, a grey, smudgy mess that seems to stagger off ancient presses each week.
For instance, a light hit might glance off an opponent's armor, while a stronger or critical hit will stagger your enemy.
The round caused him to stagger back slightly, but the wound simply healed and the bullet was pushed out.
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I stagger down the street for a while before my lax limbs become used to working again.
And most importantly, letting the treaty stagger on along a Via Dolorosa of months of rejection is dangerous.
This will help to stagger the cars but also allow you to have a better parking spot, and in turn more time to tailgate.
We would stagger down from the Rue Oberkampf and collapse on the lawns of the Place des Vosges, letting the buttery pastry melt into our veins.
They fall into taxis or stagger happily on down to the Nitelink bus and sing all the way home.
Once the curtain falls, you'll stagger outside feeling unbalanced, wondering what just happened and what it all means.
When he was lowered to the ground, his box was tipped on its side to enable an emotional Blaine to stagger out wrapped in a rug.
The nightclub Broadway is also right next door, so you will not have far to stagger after an evening out on the town.
Consumption of Merlot continues to stagger producers who struggle to cope with demand.
A succession of weak Prime Ministers and lack-lustre governments saw the country stagger from bad to worse.
Fortunately, the Government had agreed to allow country folk to stagger such payments until things recovered.
Also, stagger hours so that fewer people are in a building at the same time.
They should also listen to the car radio for the latest travel information and stagger journeys to avoid the busiest travel times.
Also, on hearing of the crush at the cattle camps, the Collector, B. Rajashekar, moved to stagger the fodder hours.
Begin planting as early as possible and stagger plantings every two weeks for a long season of blooms through September.
Wilson is determined to stun and stagger us with the knowledge of how little we know, how much we have only just begun to discover.
These concepts may continue to stagger the imagination, but they no longer defy it.
Since I've moved house, my local is now the Drayton Court, just a short stagger from BNI Towers.
This really gives you one heck of an image and you can really strut around town with a stagger in your step.
Our daily parade down the Croisette has turned from a saunter to a stagger.
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Robby walked out onto his lawn with just a trace of a stagger and jumped into his brilliantly, subtle performance.
Though pie-eyed, she managed to stagger through, but swore she would never again drink before a performance.
It had felt like hours before the boy could hear the gears whining to a stop, and then the floor gave another stagger and went still.
A trailer loaded with canoes sits behind the Red Cross building, waiting to be deployed, and glassy-eyed relief workers stagger onto our hotel's elevators, ready to collapse.
The airport's runways currently stagger their take-off and landings, and switch them around during the day to allow residents some relief from noise.
His cheeks bright red, his chin wet with spittle, the Helot would weave and stagger and totter until he passed out in the dirt.
Unless we stagger the hours of medical service provision, all those people will end up in the emergency room.
If News Corp. really distrusted a former staffer, it might stagger her severance payments, says Estreicher.
And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels.
Just stagger to the handy vomitorium and come back with appetite restored.
Global markets continue to stagger from one perceived crisis to the next.
Perhaps some feline bureaucrat has concluded that the best answer is to let the proposal stagger on and collapse, hoping to kill it with kindness?
The sheer breadth of these studies can stagger the imagination, ranging across continents for specific forces of ecological and historical change.
She took off again, this time at more of a stagger than a run.
There was a stagger rather than a swagger about Johnson in recent years.
Our foursome took a corner of the huge table of guests at a Korean restaurant on the Holloway Road, just a stagger from Highbury and Islington Station.
Next it was a stagger up Digbeth High Street to the Royal George.
Collagen fibrils are well known to be assemblies of parallel collagen molecules arranged with a longitudinal stagger according to the Hodge-Petruska scheme.
Then, when they're awake they stagger around all dopey with heavy eyes.
The paucity of these qualities in the present Republic would stagger them.
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They'll gasp, stagger back, clutch their chests, and pinwheel their arms for balance, all the while looking around for someone to confirm their indignation.
This is why we should greet with interest the news that schools could be allowed to stagger their lesson times to ease the traffic chaos caused by the school run.
And there she remained, moaning quietly, until late the following morning when her dozy brood managed to stagger out of bed to ask what was for breakfast.
As if in a dream, with one foot heavy and one light, you stagger about in broad daylight through the noisy crowd while fresh and old memories weave together.
When creating timelines for your project, you may want to stagger 'big' work years with slow-paced years.
For a long time, British film has seemed to stagger from doom to reprieve to doom to reprieve.
Naturally, that meant I would also need to don the slurred speech, the stagger and the concealed vodka bottle.
I'm washed up onstage and, in a blind stagger, I hug Vincent and then Holman.
For example, data for permissible contact wire wear and permissible stagger tolerance shall be provided.
It is recommended that you stagger the years your investments mature to protect yourself from interest rate-related risk.
The Commission des normes du travail may also authorize employers to stagger their work hours on a basis other than weekly.
It would therefore be legitimate to stagger over time the implementation of the regulation in order to allow the necessary adjustments.
The cost and disruption that would attend the relaying of the city's system with two new systems stagger the imagination.
Each office was to deliver 1,000 forms, at a rate which would stagger the sampling over the entire survey period.
We use early, semi-early, late and semi-late varieties in order to stagger production as evenly as possible.
There is a stagger in favour of the surrey stake boat at the start.
Definitely flagging now, Penny and I stagger on to the Park Hyatt Hotel where we have promised ourselves a glass or two of wine to celebrate our mammoth and epic journey.
There was a healthy crowd who stayed to watch the event which was put on partly to stagger the crush of racegoers leaving the course after the last race.
Cameron said he would not accept a compromise formula produced in Brussels that would stagger UK repayments beyond the initial deadline of 1 December.
It is considered good practice to stagger joints in supporting structures.
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Rooftops stagger the skysill. Clouds coast from nowhere to Nowhere as row upon row below Planetrees shuttle the moted Air.
On his way to school, Mr. Hersi was waiting for the subway when he witnessed the visually impaired victim stagger toward the edge of the platform and tumble onto the tracks.
Watching fellow competitors stagger around camp like zombies in the mornings – tired, sore and nursing crocked knees, blistered feet or chafing in unmentionable places – was comic at times.
Mrs Adcock will invariably force you to take two, leaving you to stagger into the owlful night.
No success rendered him overweening and no disaster was ever known to stagger his firmness.
The 500 series of trades are a good example of this, where there's a stagger of almost 10 years between the privates and the corporals who are in now.
A short stagger away there's a great pub called the White Eagle.
Jug bitten was all you were. You had enough blue ruin to make any man stagger.
Worse than that, too, during Rag Week when the drink flowed quickly and the privy seemes too far to stagger.
Grants to the house of Russell were so enormous, as not only to outrage economy, but even to stagger credibility.
This means air traffic using older aircraft, which are going to stagger on for another few years, if they are allowed to, with few controls on how they operate.
In horizontal installations, stagger joints a minimum of one stud space.
By spreading the load, the new method makes it possible to stagger the cost and operate with a steady workforce and budget, while the smaller scale makes for better organization and more manageable operations.
Winnipeg barley futures continue to stagger at fresh contract lows.
We will stagger the run so the faster runners can go first, then the joggers.
The work will stagger over a five month period.
Guidance on Implementation: Municipalities can stagger the implementation to two years starting with the highest potential sector to ensure the municipality can properly support, implement and enforce the project.
The solution is to stagger the period in which the units are turned on.
The campaign will now stagger through the February doldrums.
The overhang pattern forms a harmonic series and shows that with five blocks you can stagger more than one block length.
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Dancers stand tall, then stagger and sink.
If you use two groups to stagger the start, use some fun names of things they like for the groups: waffles and syrup, cheerios and alphabets, milk and cookies, crackers and peanut butter, etc.
Two or three shots, made at them by a couple of drakes, made them stagger.
As European leaders stagger into yet another round of crisis summitry, this potential superpower is widely viewed as the sick man of the developed world.
We will stagger the starting positions for the race on the oval track.
When laying the hardboard sheets, stagger the joints with the floorboards' and fix with panel pins about every 10cm around the edge and every 15cm in the middle.
Afy slowly gathered in the sense of the words. She gasped twice, as if her breath had gone, and then, with a stagger and a shiver, fell heavily to the ground.
I throw some extra slur into the words, and act like I'm just managing not to stagger.
Are their provisions for the protection of members, a safety net of sorts, should the investment bank stagger, or worse, collapse?
A miner puts his head down and runs, with a long swinging stride, through places where I can only stagger.

Else why should the bearers stagger, as they tremulously uphold the coffin?
The stagger was partly due to his grogginess, and partly due to the Coriolis forces acting within the spinning ship.
The women of to-day carry the dead load upon their backs, and literally stagger beneath the accumulating burden of the ages.
Men in the habit of drinking kawa neither stagger about, nor speak thick and loud, when under its influence.
Twice they were driven to their knees, only to stagger on as the convulsions lessened.
Mr Vladimir did not stumble, did not stagger back, did not change his stride.
Some are still in a state of inebriety, and stagger as they stray about the decks.
His Brownings opened up and he saw the Stuka stagger and swerve as he thundered past in a hissing dive.
Let us be ballasted with grace, that we be not blown over, and that we stagger not.
In honeycomb and other stagger wound coils the capacitance is more evenly distributed.
The gig shaft ran right into the chest, making him stagger back with a cry that I shall never forget.
To show himself independent of me, he would start and stagger through with his hymn in the most discordant manner.
Weave crabapple branches throughout for added texture, and stagger candles nestled in pebble-filled votive holders for ambience.
Fain am I to stagger to this emprise under the weightiest words of the dictionary.
In turn, jerkingly raised and lowered by the rolling billows, the towing resistance of the log caused the old reelman to stagger strangely.
She saw De Launay stagger again and felt that she was about to faint.
Later, she used to stagger from one hammock to another and swing them.
I stood as long as I could stagger to the hopper with grain.
She thumps and lurches, and they stagger together, feeling sick.
But at last he managed to stagger out on the bank and deposit his unwieldy load.
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Then they stagger off to seek a lonely car or a night-hawk taxi.
The Medic was bleary-eyed and inclined to stagger when they freed him.
Gahan, horrified, saw the latter's head topple from its body, saw the body stagger and fall to the ground.
So that not the fierce-fanged tiger in his heraldic coat can so stagger courage as the white-shrouded bear or shark.
Does not the mind reel and stagger at the idea of this cumulated horror?
The prospect ahead was enough to stagger the stoutest heart.
He saw her stagger to her feet, holding the baby at arm's length from her, her eyes glued in horror upon the little chubby face and twinkling eyes.
In spite of splitting headaches he would stagger down to the plant and take up his stand once more, and begin to shovel in the blinding clouds of dust.
In front of him he saw, in the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder.

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