The grammatical form employed here is the present progressive.

The distribution of goods is an important aspect of the supply chain.

She got the job by virtue of her youth and enthusiasm.

(4) The term bid rigging etc. in this Act shall mean, in respect of conclusion of agreements by the government, local governments or specified corporations (hereinafter referred to as government, etc.) for the sale and purchase, lease, contract, etc., with a counter party to be chosen by auction or other competitive means (hereinafter referred to as bidding, etc.), the acts in violation of the provision of Article 3 or Article 8, paragraph 1, item 1 of the Act on the Prohibition of Private Monopolization and Maintenance of Fair Trade (Act No. 54 of 1947), through such practices that a entrepreneur wishing to participate in the bidding decides in conjunction with other entrepreneurs the successful bidder or the successful bid price, or the trade association makes an entrepreneur wishing to participate in the said bidding do the said acts.

He lives off campus.

Change is inevitably a part of life.

It was sheer coincidence that Mary and I were on the same train.

In accordance with the postal privatization in November 2008, Japan Post Service Co., Ltd. and KDDI CORPORATION produced a service of creating and sending New Year's postcards by mobile phone Keitai POST (cell-phone post), thus targeting young adults who are less familiar with the tradition of nengajo.

The documents were duly signed and submitted.

The dissolution of their relationship was painful for both of them.

nefariously involved in a conspiracy

For three-and-thirty years he had withdrawn himself from the world and devoted himself to the consolidation of his great scheme of the solar system.

I exchanged my dollars for yen at the bank.

I perceived an object looming through the mist.

Gukansho consists of three parts, each of which has a different character: volumes 1 and 2 chronicle the emperors since Jinmu, volumes 3 to 6 center on the transition of Dori together with the descriptions of history, and volume 7 is a general overview on Dori.

Its inside is designed as a gorgeous simulation of the Buddhist hall of the head temple of each relevant Buddhist sect, where statues of Buddha and ihai (ancestral tablets) are installed.

Although he was temporarily secluded in Shunneiin Temple after Yoriyuki was ousted from power, he was reinstated in the position of juji at Nanzen-ji Temple.

He randomly picked a number between 1 and 10.

My boss dictated a letter for his secretary to type.

The jury found the defendant guilty and convicted him of the crime.

When old Jehan Daas had reached his full eighty, his daughter had died in the Ardennes, hard by Stavelot, and had left him in legacy her two-year-old son.

`Do you have a boyfriend,' she asked her prospective tenant pryingly

I need to deposit this cheque into my bank account.

It features Toke Tokubutsu, in which a blindfolded new initiate throws a flower onto mandala to choose his or her tutelary god depending on where the flower lands; the new initiate connects with the god.

She is seemingly happy, but deep down she is sad.

The Department of Homeland Security's primary function is the prevention of terrorist attacks occurring within America and, in the extreme case of an attack happening, holding losses to the smallest possible level and swiftly carrying out restoration.

It's a waste to just have the central banks watching over commodity prices.

The revival of the patient's health was a miracle.

there are strong incentives for the inferiors to hide, ignore, and minimize problems.

After a long wait in line, she was told she should get a certified copy of her birth certificate as identification.