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A recent widower, he, too, has taken up with the bottle.
It's as if Martha Stewart has taken up with IBM's Watson.
But her time was taken up with work, friends and commitments.
Most of the patent is taken up with covering every possible base.
Any disputes have to be taken up with the third-party seller.
But much of the hearing was taken up with rhetoric rather than policy.
My weekends are taken up with pancakes and basketball and baseball and movie night.
Wing's first season was taken up with the story of a White House Staffer
His week is largely taken up with his new job: screenwriter for Marvel Studios.
The rest of the day was taken up with prayers and lectures on religion.
Much of the video is taken up with the five speaking, looking directly into the camera.
Most of the order, however, is taken up with directives for further studies and reviews: Sen.
Her eldest daughter, Night (Taryn Kyaze), has taken up with an unsavory guy on a motorbike.
Much of the time is taken up with opening statements from the members of the committee.
Most of the service is taken up with Christian pop, the congregation listening rather than singing along.
Plus, most of the pages are taken up with Baby Monkey trying to get his pants on!
A large portion of this game is taken up with boss fights, and they're visually and conceptually dazzling.
Much of it is taken up with elliptical, heavily thematic dialog about walls, and boundaries, bodies and performances.
Future passengers who are willing to pay $250,000 will be taken up with help from the spacecraft's mothership.
The rest of the letter is breezily taken up with racehorses and shoes, cameras and hi-fi equipment.
The app's front screen isn't taken up with recommended articles either, though you can find them with a tap.
So-called drone swarms—the phrase people have taken up with gusto—are having their biggest, buzziest year ever.
Their drive to quash opposition has been taken up with a righteous zeal that may outpace even the president.
The first day of such a visit is customarily taken up with a series of royal engagements and ceremonies.
"Sadie, Sadie" (season 2, episode 1) Most of this episode is taken up with Max Medina and Dean silliness.
Future passengers who are willing to fork out $250,000 will be taken up with help from the spacecraft's mothership.
By then, Chouinard had taken up with Malinda Pennoyer, an art and home-economics student, and Yosemite lodge maid.
But most of this movie, which is almost entirely in English, is taken up with tone-deaf humanist tales.
Obviously, Oath doesn't want to have to continue paying Mozilla after they've ditched Yahoo and taken up with a competitor.
The rest of the time is taken up with exercise, dance and "group work" (on, for instance, lowering emotional defences).
Bookrunner Merrill Lynch said in a statement that all of the shares had been taken up, with pricing to follow.
Huck has taken up with Fields' friend from the campaign, Meg Mitchell (Phoebe Neidhardt), a statistician, and it's utterly adorable.
A good chunk of the book is taken up with a critique of policymakers' efforts to address the euro crisis.
Opposition to gay rights has also been taken up with gusto by Russia and the Orthodox Church in Western Europe.
Much of the film is taken up with scenes of her picking up the mess after meetings, like a maid.
Now the question is being asked: How could anybody harboring such vile views have been taken up with such enthusiasm?
A quarter of the average office worker's day is now taken up with e-mail, according to a study by McKinsey .
Adding to Harry's stress is the discovery that his daughter (Liv Tyler) has taken up with one of his employees (Ben Affleck).
Breitbart does have an article on the news, but most of its headline is taken up with the reaction of the Democrats.
Now, almost a year late, the square black room, one corner of which is taken up with an open kitchen, is ready.
In fact he was a transnational writer at a time when many of his contemporaries were taken up with ingrown literary rivalries.
On Friday and Saturday, the bulk of the concerts are taken up with Mahler's Symphony No. 26500, with the soprano Christina Landshamer.
Anyone who brews their own beer is an automatic no, because their time is guaranteed to be taken up with something really boring.
There was never a conversation about these things, no chance of a serious debate, as she was completely taken up with her business.
It's significant because this is the first substantive gun rights case that the Supremes have taken up with its new conservative majority. 5.
Eight years later, after being thwarted by Congress and taken up with other priorities, he will submit a plan to close the detention center.
According to Amber Rudd, a former member of Johnson's cabinet, about 80-90 percent of government time is taken up with no-deal planning.
As we see at the beginning of the episode, Tony has taken up with a much younger woman, Lucy Lindsay-Hogg (Jessica de Gouw).
He's just been out on his own, doing what he does, though he has taken up with a pet whom he has apparently named Dog.
It's the same kind of work he has taken up with the Nutrition Science Initiative, his nonprofit dedicated to improving the quality of nutrition research.
Much of the book is taken up with a scary plot about drug copyright, which turns out to be about who owns our chemical brains.
Their mother also becomes an occasional visitor in her own home, having taken up with a rich, married lover who is not fond of Tracy.
The Ministry of Agriculture further reckons that a third of agricultural land and a third of water for farming is taken up with growing the drug.
The plot need not detain us: Florise loves Damon, who has taken up with Clarice; Florise dresses as a man to try to derail the dalliance.
That is an example that both her sons seem to have taken up with enthusiasm — Prince Harry's work on raising awareness about mental health, for instance.
Much of the year its greensward is taken up with cricketers and soccer players; on this chilly day there was only a skittish flock of gulls.
Much of the volume is taken up with Mengele's escape to, and life in, various South American countries and the bungled attempts to locate and capture him.
The first book of the Bible is Genesis, and much of it is taken up with the genealogy of the patriarchs who loom large in the Abrahamic religions.
Separately, India's Foreign Ministry said it had taken up with Britain reports of vandalism at the Indian High Commission in London during a protest over Kashmir on Tuesday.
Much of the early part of the vice presidential debate was taken up with squabbling over issues such as which side had run the most "insult-driven" campaign.
Some of that time she said, was taken up with whittling her original list of 50 jewelers down to the 14 ethical makers and designers in the book.
It's so taken up with making sure everything is set in place that it largely forgets to do anything other than offer up a long series of stilted introductions.
Watch an hour-long episode of the British edition, and you'll be surprised by how little of the airtime is taken up with conversations about flirting and sexual betrayal.
However it hasn't been easy for her to find work and she has taken up with, of all people, Litchfield Penitentiary's maximum security facility captain, Rick Hopper (Hunter Emery).
Unfortunately, half of the book is taken up with tales of the players in golf, tennis and baseball who fought pivotal battles to improve their respective sports' compensation structures.
He's plotting to reunite with his old girlfriend, who has taken up with a psychopath, Arnett, at an abandoned disaster of an inn perched precariously below the mountain's peak.
Brown during that campaign hit Warren on her claims of Native American heritage while a law professor at Harvard University, an attack that Trump has since taken up with gusto.
More than half the film is taken up with her series of interviews with "megadonors" to both parties, who disburse the money they've made in finance, oil, broadcasting and other industries.
The rest of the field is taken up with horizontal lines whose insistent flatness resists a perspectival reading of the picture plane, much like Jack Tworkov's planar abstractions of the 1970s.
We're told the situation has gotten so severe, it has been taken up with the Swedish Embassy in Washington D.C. to avoid what has quickly become a breach of Rocky's human rights.
"He is using and adapting our copyrights and trademarks without our permission, and the infringement will be taken up with our attorneys," the group said in a statement to the rapper's label.
FOLLOWING A lot of my time is taken up with replying to people who have seen the cats project online and want to get involved or just ask a question about it.
Part of the problem when you're getting big is you're not really allowed to enjoy it because every moment of your time is taken up with interviews, traveling shows, parties, recovering from parties.
Related: 'You Just Don't Get It': Republicans Grill EPA's McCarthy About Flint Water Crisis The question of who is to blame for the Flint water crisis has been taken up with partisan ire.
As history catches up with her, she checks in with her ex (Scoot McNairy) and has stern talks with her teenage daughter (Jade Pettyjohn), who has taken up with a sleazoid (Beau Knapp).
Guided by religion: Sekulow is a devout Christian whose work reflects his religious beliefs, as seen in the cases he's taken up with the ACLJ, including backing their stances against gay marriage and abortion.
Because of the way the "Carnet" functions, because it was made quickly enough to seem relatively candid, we now know how much of Thompson's mind is taken up with searching out and drawing women.
You can also include a few snippets that lend a little context, such as "ADME/PK assays" Bottom line: The bulk of your resume should be taken up with jobs that support your candidacy.
Season Three picks up some years after the end of the second season, with Clem having survived into her teen years and taken up with a man named Javier, who we meet in this trailer.
The hours between waking up and heading to the main area for the first bands are usually taken up with sitting around the campsite, making plans for the day ahead and generally doing very little.
The future of photography is code In the case of the iPhone XR, the lack of a second camera means depth data is very limited, meaning the slack has to be taken up with code.
In the Season 3 premiere (the only new episode available for review), much of the hour is taken up with curiously detailed scenes of a gunshot victim's being prepped for surgery and then operated on.
At its center is the lonely, mom-missing Lydia, who resents that her dad, Charles (Adam Dannheisser) has taken up with Delia (Leslie Kritzer, taking zany to the max), a perky but insecure life coach.
"We still need to work out the balance," he says, adding that there are no current plans to roll out an evening menu, since nights here are already taken up with events from independent music promoters.
"If there is a concern about his sentence, that should be taken up with the state legislature, rather than by seeking to remove the judge for doing his job, exercising discretion, and showing compassion," he said.
Unlike myself, Poe was lavish in sharing the challenge, and although his invitation to play was taken up with relish by the historian and critic Luc Sante and the biographer Robert Becker, some he tapped demurred.
There is a value to explaining this to nonfans, but so much of the second half is taken up with this obsession that a casual viewer might think some kind of death cult exists around Jerry Garcia.
Much of his glam-gonzo story is taken up with an account of his derring-do in reaching the jungle hideout, in the company of a Mexican movie star, Kate del Castillo, who set up the encounter.
In the past few seasons Mr. Adams's operas have been taken up, with relish, by a new generation of opera managers and directors, introducing German audiences to the all-American sounds and themes of the composer's work.
"A lot of focus in the land down under is being taken up with the terrible fires ... I think it just resonates and is a slight concern of the social and economic impact going forward," Rooney said.
Moreover, even when venture-capital funds do stump up big chunks of money, they usually plan to stay invested for just a decade or so, the last years of which are taken up with designing an exit strategy.
The movie unfolds heavily through flashback, which helps explain why Kidman's detective Erin Bell is such a mess -- estranged from her teenage daughter (Jade Pettyjohn), who has taken up with a sleazy boyfriend, and battling her own demons.
Danny, a high schooler, is nominally the central character, and much of the plot is taken up with his efforts to free himself of his virginity, first with a neighborhood girl and then with a worldly photography teacher.
When asked if U.S. President Donald Trump's visit to the Korean demilitarized zone (DMZ) presented an opportunity for the Americans to make representations, Mr Morrison said he would not allow the issue to be taken up with other agendas.
Her ex-husband is engaged to a much younger woman, her father has taken up with a 20-year-old (male) porn star and her son, also 20, is just starting out on his life as a gay man.
So goes the origin story of LPA, a year-old clothing line that has been taken up with enthusiasm by many in Hollywood and beyond who are perhaps weary of the official fashion calendar's incessant drumbeat, and its prices.
But though Mr Mattis's promises to expand American engagement in Asia were welcome, they did not dispel the perception that America is taken up with North Korea's nuclear threat (see Lexington), at the expense of the rest of the region.
On a 2016 visit to a J.P. Morgan office for technology workers in Delaware, much of the lobby was taken up with 8-foot-tall billboards reminding staff to comply with the firm's code of conduct to protect customer data.
"Everyone is taken up with the idea of the ride-hailing business; it's exciting and high-growth," said Kathleen Smith, a principal at Renaissance Capital, which manages an I.P.O.-focused exchange-traded fund that will include Lyft later this week.
Much of the painting is taken up with clothing: the woman's dress, the outfits of people dancing in the background, and the garments of the one clothed man, his hands on the crown and shoulders of the other, nude one.
Alia Shawkat stars as Dory, an underachieving doormat who, when she's not organizing Goodwill donations for a wealthy clotheshorse, ponders why she has taken up with her doofus boyfriend (John Reynolds) while pining for her lost love (Brandon Micheal Hall).
And she extends the story past the killings: more than half the book is taken up with the exhausting but ultimately successful struggle, on the part of guards and inmates both, for compensation from the judicial system for their suffering.
When I listened to Philip Hammond's (rather good) address to the conference on the importance of defending capitalism from its critics I noticed that the row in front of me was taken up with people wearing "Aston Martin" logos on their backs.
While his group had cases involving the government and U.S.-led international military forces, he said they had been taken up with them and would be dealt with separately, not as part of his group's ICC submissions, which focus on the militants.
The question of whether more could have been done to prevent 84 people from being killed has been taken up with gusto by local leaders on the French Riviera, most of whom represent right-wing forces opposed to France's Socialist government in Paris.
The fall harvest was over, (remember that spring was planting time and summer was taken up with working the fields and tending the crops) but in the majority of the nation the weather was still mild enough to permit travel over unimproved roads.
Much of Mr. Weinstein's half-hour in court was taken up with a discussion of whether Mr. Brafman had a conflict of interest in representing the producer because his former associate, Alex Spiro, had spoken with Ms. Thompson last fall about representing her.
But it does seem clear that teen suicide stories are starting to fill the place in the pop culture landscape that until very recently was taken up with stories of teen dystopias: a place that wants to think about how we are probably destroying ourselves.
Beauvoir is remembered as a philosopher, feminist and novelist, not as an outdoorswoman, and yet pages of her memoirs are taken up with descriptions of the hikes she took in her 20s and 30s: in the Maritime Alps, the Haute-Loire, in Brittany, in the Jura, in Auvergne, in the Midi.
The report found that most of the trip was taken up with personal time, and not official business — and that Shulkin had a subordinate arrange personal travel plans during the trip for him and his wife, Dr. Merle Bari, which the report called a "misuse" of the subordinate's official work time.
"It's not my first time in Paris — I was here last year to shoot a campaign — but it is my first time to a couture show, and it's beyond exciting to be here," she said, adding that the rest of her trip would be taken up with press junkets and photo shoots.
Menus, docks, taskbars, and tabs are usually at the top and bottom of the screen as well, rather than the left and right edge, so buying yourself a laptop with a 3x2 display means fewer pixels are taken up with screen furniture that isn't necessarily going to be of any use to you.
"The amount of time and energy that is being taken up with Brexit ... and the fact that it's difficult for the government to get a majority for any reforms means there isn't a lot of scope for announcements on the tax side," said Gemma Tetlow, chief economist at the Institute for Government think tank.
In regards to the accusation that Honest's organic baby formula contains unnatural ingredients, Thorne noted that the issue is about how the FDA has multiple methods to classify organic products, and thinks that consumer advocacy groups are using the company as a target for issues that should actually be taken up with the FDA.
Much of "Party Going" is taken up with the saturated love life of the wealthy flibbertigibbet Max Adey, who, in going on a holiday that he has proposed, will be spending time with a girlfriend he's lukewarm about, Julia Wray, at the expense of the society beauty Amabel, whom he thinks he may worship.
He soon cut off contact and stopped sending money, and when Heloise, who had taken up with a French merchant from Saint Grimaud, perished suddenly after a miscarriage, the girl was left at the mercy of her grandmother, who wasted no time in settling her gray-eyed, barely pubescent granddaughter with Hans, an affable middle-aged German, who sold construction materials.
Much of the fair is taken up with various bits of design clothed as fine art, but that is too gilded and decorative for my taste, even when it's attempting to look modern, such as Onaga Tomatsu's "framed lacquer panel with various fish" (nd) which is a layered, cubist take on fish that makes the entire scene into a kind of twisted parquet floor pattern.
Much of the book is taken up with evidence-based philosophizing, with charts showing a worldwide increase in life expectancy, a decline in life-shattering diseases, ever better education and access to information, greater recognition of female equality and L.G.B.T. rights, and so on — even down to data showing that Americans today are 37 times less likely to be killed by lightning than in 1900, thanks to better weather forecasting, electrical engineering and safety awareness.
In one work, a young woman rendered on a thin, vertical canvas executes a ballet leg hold while standing on a man's head; next to it, Aidoo's equally vertical, short-lined poem describes the discrepancy between middle-class and working-class women — the latter "taken up with / what's waiting of the / brutal loads that were / their lives" — in terms of time and access to a local public library and the knowledge that translates into power to be gathered there.

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