We can't afford for the performance to run on for more than the specified time.
Using a certain time zone.
I was still running on daylight savings time.
Sorry, Hillary. I was running on CP time. 2016 April 9, Bill de Blasio, "Shamilton" at the Inner Circle Dinner
(idiomatic) To continue talking for a long time.
She ran on and wouldn't let anyone get a word in edgeways.
To operate with a particular energy source.
This car runs on bio-alcohol.
To make numerous drafts or demands for payment, as upon a bank.
Accordingly, depositors may run on a bank upon the receipt of adverse economic news that induces them to revise their assessment of a bank's soundness. 2009, Heidi Mandanis Schooner, Michael W. Taylor, Global Bank Regulation: Principles and Policies, page 27:
(historical) To carry on or continue (e.g. the type for a new sentence) without making a break or commencing a new paragraph.
(dated, transitive) To press with jokes or ridicule; to abuse with sarcasm; to bear hard on.
(transitive) To rely on (something) for popular support in an election.
The senator is running on his record.
(ditransitive, qualifier:African-American Vernacular, slang) To attempt to enact (a plan, trick or scheme) on (someone).