Citations:standby

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English citations of standby

  • 1958, United States Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors, United States Army. Corps of Engineers, Port Series, page 33
    When men are required to standby due to weather conditione only, and full gangs do standby, they shall be paid at one-half the applicable straight time
  • 1970, Hans W. J. Bosman, Frans Alphons Maria Alting von Geusau, Paul Bareau, The Future of the International Monetary System, page 126
    The suspicion may be there, justified or not, that the lending, standbying, or swaping[sic] countries may agree among themselves not to hurt each other
  • 1994, Gaylord Kelshall, The U-Boat War in the Caribbean, page 405
    Orders went out to Drewitz in U525 to turn back from the Caribbean as well as Von Harpe in U129, to standby as emergency tankers.
  • 1996, Richard Rhodes, Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb, page 277
    standbying one reactor would stop its Wigner's disease infection
  • 2001, Gregory J. Shepherd, Eric W. Rothenbuhler, Communication and Community, page 67
    Dispatchers who are angry with police officers often ask them to standby when making unrealistic requests,
  • 2002, Phil Croucher, The Helicopter Pilot's Handbook, page 158
    If he has willing and capable hands available, he'll tell us to standby,