sitters

If the political system only expects teachers to be baby sitters is that the fault of the teachers union or the community that pays them only to be baby sitters.

Second Term Policies, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Being house-sitters is our way to experience different regions of Mexico in our pre-retirement years.

We'll cover costs and show your house for sale 2009

Whether or not the exam rates the scariness or otherwise of the sitters is not documented.

English, kanji and computer qualifications are most desired in 2008 2007

His friends, known in salvia-speak as 'sitters' - present to make sure that the user does not harm himself or others - looked like enemies on his imaginary battlefield.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010

"It's not just that these people leapfrog the queues by using 'sitters' - they also bring in two or three clients to the front of the line, and you will find that once the documents are submitted to us, the issuing process also goes faster for some of the agency clients."

IOL: News 2009

The sitters were the artists twin daughters Sylvia and Monica.

Frank Owen Salisbury Hermes 2009

When his sitters are the chief men and women of his time, for beauty, genius, rank, power, wit, goodness, or even fashion and folly, this interest is heightened.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 Various

Then there is the theory that the unconscious muscular action of the sitters is the cause of the movement and writing.

The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal Hereward Carrington 1919

The unconscious revelations made by the sitters are the sole genuine foundation of the spiritualists 'influence.

Without Prejudice Israel Zangwill 1895

Gainsborough idiosyncratically painted his "sitters" by candlelight standing with six-foot handled brushes.

Framing Romantic Dress: Mary Robinson, Princess Caroline and the Sex/Text 2006