leisures

Salman Taseer, one of the few politicians openly challenging the onslaught of religious extremism, Pakistani moderates are facing a new and troubling reality: Pakistan is a country where fundamentalism is becoming mainstream, leaving even less room for dissent, difference and many once-prevalent leisures such as public music, dance parties or other social contact between the sexes.

Pakistanis Mourn A Once Religiously Tolerant, Relaxed Nation AP 2011

Salman Taseer, one of the few politicians openly challenging the onslaught of religious extremism, Pakistani moderates are facing a new and troubling reality: Pakistan is a country where fundamentalism is becoming mainstream, leaving even less room for dissent, difference and many once-prevalent leisures such as public music, dance parties or other social contact between the sexes.

Pakistanis Mourn A Once Religiously Tolerant, Relaxed Nation AP 2011

Completely such were beautiful days for us, and poorest of us had the money to spend and lend, and of the leisures to make beautiful things right for the recreation of him, without speaking of the most marvellous toys and most magic, similar of which is not to be found in the world nowadays.

Hobbit 419 | Live Granades 2009

As long as until now , no lawyer is able to tell me how legal such terms are , and actually not even what EULA/ToS are contracts ? leisures ?

Shirky and Second Life 2006

But the Feast of Christmas was now neere at hand, which afforded leisures much more hopefull, then any other formerly passed.

The Decameron 2004

And then he kissed her, and did to her pleasaunce as it pleased them both at times and leisures.

Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table 2003

When we have done away with the priestess, you will have plenty of time to pursue your depraved leisures.

Conan The Hunter Moore, Sean A. 1994

Some of his lighter subjects, "his leisures" he called them, are well known, e.g. the "Dancing Girls".

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

A soldier at fifteen, he spent his leisures in camp reading

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

It is because he had imagination, the leisures of the spirit, and basked in an element of contemplation out of all modern English atmospheric gauges, that he is impressive to the imaginations of men, and has become a potentate not to be ignored.

XIV. English Traits. Literature 1909