| A stellar career has included stints as Poet in Residence at the Frost Place, New Hampshire, and Writer in Residence at Trinity College. |
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| The Semipalmated Sandpiper is a small shorebird in the group known as peeps or stints. |
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| Simply not true, he says, having made the effort to master Swedish fluently during his two stints there. |
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| His role as maverick was most evident was during his stints on the Open Market Committee, where he frequently squared off against the status quo. |
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| Raymond began his career as a foundry worker, with subsequent stints as a tram-driver, street-seller, and dresser in the theatre. |
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| His academic credentials are impressive and include a doctorate in economics and teaching stints at several universities. |
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| Instead, it turns out that even limited stints of overindulgence may have long-term effects. |
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| There were peeps, probably some types of stints, larger redshank sized birds and some Tringa species. |
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| His short stints of gainful employment included work as a day laborer, pencil maker, and surveyor. |
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| Among the twelve scribal stints, three scribes made contributions to more than one of the books, and two books share a drawer of cadel capitals. |
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| She made her own break while studying at Durham, with stints on local radio in nearby Newcastle. |
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| International birders include four Eurasian sandpipers, called stints, on the peeps roster. |
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| Jim, whose two Lockington coaching stints started 17 years apart, was the playing-coach in the team in which Young won his honour. |
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| During their brief stints the interns are schooled in organizing techniques and tactics. |
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| Her track record has included stints fronting shows such as Top of the Pops, The Movie Chart Show and the sports reality show The Games. |
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| David and his team will be taking turns, doing one and a half to two hour stints each and are aiming for a time of 24 to 25 hours. |
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| Which actor's resume includes stints as a coffin polisher, a milkman and a nude model for artists? |
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| Unfortunately I had to cut short my low-fuel runs because I had some longer stints to do for tyre evaluation. |
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| Each of the ships is loaded and deployed for 3 year stints, after which they return to their main base in the US for refurbishment. |
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| Numerous stints treading the boards with his local drama group have inspired him to try his hand as a playwright. |
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| After stints as a waitress, an air hostess and a grape picker, her broadcasting career kicked off with Radio Merseyside. |
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| The 23-year-old has been rallying for six years, including stints in both Group N Mitsubishi and Fiat Punto Super 1600 cars. |
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| An intervention, two stints in the Betty Ford clinic and a long retreat in Oregon helped her to clean out for good. |
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| Roosters duo Mitchell and Isaac Liu could be set for extended stints on the sideline after suffering suspected syndesmosis in the first half. |
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| In the Adyar river, black winged stilts, three varieties of egrets and migrants such as golden plovers, sand pipers and little stints are to be found. |
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| Among his previous assignments were stints in war zones like Afghanistan and the Congo. |
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| Under normal circumstances, they would be replaced when their stints in Washington are up. |
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| Her rise to fame was hampered by a debilitating heroin addiction, stints in rehab, and troubles with the law. |
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| The student body was becoming increasingly international and the staff did teaching stints in various developing countries. |
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| Sentences have got tougher, with longer stints in prison for pettier offences. |
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| After stints in several Michelin-starred French kitchens, he worked at Le Cirque in 1993 as chef de partie under the chef Sylvain Portay. |
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| In retrospect, I also got a lot out of stints as a call-centre worker, a housekeeping maid and a freelance ironer. |
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| During its long existence it was a weekly publication with the exception of two short stints of semi-weekly or thrice weekly issues. |
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| Following various stints as a houseboy, cook, surveyor, miner and barber, Hoy took up a camera and began taking pictures. |
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| His early work experience included stints as a deck hand, truck driver, mechanic and welder. |
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| He was with 426 and 436 Squadrons in Trenton and on stints in the Congo and Lahr Germany. |
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| I covered the Libyan revolution and the Syrian conflict, plus stints in Egypt, Jerusalem, Ramallah and Moscow. |
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| A first-class musical performer, Johnny Hallyday's long career includes a host of movie stints, 80 million discs sold and some 100 tours. |
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| However, the results of the stints are not tied in with compliance verification results to provide a more complete picture of compliance levels. |
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| For short stints in the city, the ride is fair, but on long trips, it becomes quite unpleasant. |
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| But there are also drivers who start with the soft tires and then do two stints with the hard ones. |
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| She has over 25 years of international work experience, including stints in Africa and the Caribbean. |
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| His union involvement has included stints at various times as President of his National Component Local. |
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| His career in the Commission has also included stints in the Cabinet of Mme. |
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| Or they even do the first two stints with the soft tires and choose the hard ones at the end. |
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| In between his government stints, he practiced in the blue-chip firm of Hogan Hartson. |
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| But the accident didn't hamper his love for sport as played as goal-keeper for the school's first XI football side, besides stints with rugby, softball and Kilikiti. |
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| After failing to land a job as a journalist, and brief stints as an office temp and clerk typist, Bass was demoralized and returned to North Carolina. |
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| Just as he stints discussion of aesthetics, so he repeatedly writes as if authorial intention were merely instrumental, a matter of having one's say about certain issues. |
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| His career included stints as papal secretary and chancellor of Florence. |
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| Between stints levelling out the kitchen floor and painting a Noah's Ark mural in the dining room, the Transform team chose to devise some simple lessons. |
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| Kay's career also included stints at Atari, Apple, and Disney. |
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| His Chinese work stints started purely by accident, Miriam recalls. |
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| After a couple of extended stints as the Acting Sergeant Major, he found his way to the Canadian Law Enforcement Training Unit that was responsible for all outside agency training that came to the Academy. |
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| It involves in-company stints to gain practical experience. |
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| Johnson's previous Broadway stints include Hair, Catch Me If You Can and Hands on a Hardbody. |
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| After two stints as a summer student, Doug started working at BIO full-time in 1971 as a computer operator on the earliest control data and plotting equipment using punched cards, paper tape, and magnetic tape. |
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| Despite successful stints with Standard Liege, Marseille and Besiktas, 32-year-old goalkeeper Vedran Runje chose to stay loyal to Lens this summer, with the northern outfit targeting a swift return to the elite. |
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| Some teams double-stinted on the same set, while others preferred to change at the end of the first stint in order to complete three consecutive stints with the next set. |
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| Such cross-fertilization can occur for brief two week stints to increase the familiarity among provincial staff who are essentially in the same business. |
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| Living in the United States since 1981, and after stints in luxurious hotels in Orlando, Washington D. C., Austin and Boston, Chef Michel has now been in Savannah for seven years. |
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| These stints in survey organization provide both financial support and a base of experiences greatly enriches the training for the students who partake in them. |
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| Both of them were used to long surveillance stints. This looked like it might be a beaut. |
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| In all albatross species, both parents incubate the egg in stints that last between one day and three weeks. |
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| Practically all wobbling underwaters will take fish aplenty in the hands of a man who really knows how to put them through their stints. |
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| El Salvador, Costa Rica and Florida began their stints in the slave trade in 1541, 1563 and 1581, respectively. |
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| Ill children on long stints in hospitals often come from families that cannot afford to provide the care they need and compound several disadvantages to the point of verging on exclusion. |
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| Unsuccessful stints with Atlas and Cruz Azul followed, and his fall from grace was complete when his return to Toluca, the club he had taken to the heights just a few short years before, lasted just 12 games. |
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| The bulk of my work has been in bars and clubs, variously subsidised by stints as a child therapist, a care worker, a census enumerator, an English teacher, an office temp, a market researcher and for an internet company. |
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| Greenwood, at forty-nine, has a folksy air but a sterling pedigree — including stints at the Kennedy School and the National Security Council — and a chestful of medals that he wasn't wearing. |
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| Though he belonged to no party, he was an adviser to many centrist politicians providing counsel with unstoppable volubility well into old age. The war, stints in jail and persecution meant he had no formal higher education. |
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| Well-travelled Dutch stars Wesley Sneijder and Arjen Robben were busy packing their suitcases once again last summer after Real Madrid called an end to their inconsistent two-year stints. |
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| His CV also shows stints with Manchester City, Oldham Athletic, Hibernian and now Celtic, where he most recently featured in the SPL against Gretna and in the UEFA Champions League against AC Milan. |
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| He begins by freelancing as a political cartoonist following stints in 14 schools, including Toronto's Central Tech and the École des beaux-arts de Québec. |
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| There were 18 years between my friend's two stints in hospital. |
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| While Osborne and May held their positions for the full five years of the last parliamentary term, Hammond and Fallon had shorter stints in their ministries. |
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| Mr. Rogers' subsequent endeavors included stints as a bestselling author, as a guest professor at Columbia University and as a globetrotter who circled the world twice, once by motorcycle and once by car. |
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| What is certain is that Draghi – whose CV includes stints at the World Bank, the Italian treasury, Goldman Sachs and as governor of the Bank of Italy – bought some vital breathing space. |
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| I also did several stints as official agent for candidates for many years. |
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| Britain's scrum half Bobbie Goulding stepped off the bench for half an hour play in two stints and his precision kicking set up touch downs for Sullivan and Karle Hammond. |
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| O'Carroll knows how to work his audience's funnybone after two earlier successful stints in wig and skirts, and the result is unpretentious easy viewing. |
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| Originally signed by the Dodgers out of the Dominican Republic, Vizcaino spent 18seasons in the majors with eight different clubs, including two stints with the Dodgers. |
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| The following month, he was replaced by a second foreign manager, Italian Fabio Capello, whose experience included stints at Juventus and Real Madrid. |
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| Though most closely associated with Medieval Europe, governments throughout human history have imposed regular short stints of unpaid labor upon lower social classes. |
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| Varieties of sandpipers, redshanks, ruffs, stints and gulls come all the way from Europe and Siberia usually arrive in the city in late September. |
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| The Beatles had stints on the Reeperbahn early in their careers. |
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