station

asema

määräsatama

sijoittaa puhekieltä The fact of standing still; motionlessness, stasis.
1646, Sir (w), (w), III.5:

(..)the cross legs are moving or resting together, so that two are always in motion and two in station at the same time(..)

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"(..)Meanwhile, lest anything should really be amiss, or any malefactor seek to escape by the back, you and the boy must go round the corner with a pair of good sticks and take your post at the laboratory door. We give you ten minutes, to get to your stations."

Localities across New Jersey imposed curfews to prevent looting. In Monmouth, Ocean and other counties, people waited for hours for gasoline at the few stations that had electricity. Supermarket shelves were stripped bare.

There was movement at the station, for the word had passed around, / that the colt from old Regret had got away,

Tiring of sheep, he took work on cattle stations, mustering cattle on vast unfenced holdings, and looking for work ‘nigger-bossing’, or supervising Aboriginal station hands.

The romance of the gritty station owner in a crumpled Akubra, his kids educated from the remote homestead by the School of the Air, while triple-trailer road trains drag tornadoes of dust across the plains, creates a stirring idea of the modern-day pioneer battling against the elemental Outback.

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The greater part have kept, I see, / Their station.

they in France of the best rank and station

By spending this day Sunday in religious exercises, we acquire new strength and resolution to perform God's will in our several stations the week following.

The host stationed me at the front door to greet visitors.

The Costa Rican's lofted corner exposed Arsenal's own problems with marking, and Berbatov, stationed right in the middle of goal, only needed to take a gentle amble back to find the space to glance past Vito Mannone

They stationed me overseas just as fighting broke out.