Sentences with phrase «groups hunkered»

The class split into teams mirroring the blocs of countries and interest groups hunkered in Paris — from the United States to the «climate vulnerable» nations, from Greenpeace to the World Coal Association.

Life at «Mainline Seminary» is a choreographed battleground with affinity groups hunkered down in the trenches.

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CNN: As sex trade increases around conventions, faith - based groups step up efforts It's 10 p.m. in Charlotte's trendy NoDa district, and a handful of women and one man have hunkered down over French press coffee and pastries.

«I think the more similar people in churches and small groups are, the more safe and hunkered - down they become,» Pickerell says.

Italy's game may have been hindered by the Three Lions» insistence on hunkering down and playing for penalties, but the azzurri played far better than they had in the group stages.

«Al - Qaida is as powerful as they are because of cyber,» Hunker said, noting that prior to the Internet, a group like al - Qaida might have stayed a small, local terrorist organization.

If you want family time: Work together Try a group activity — whether it's camping, gardening, or hunkering down over a puzzle — that allows you to pursue your passion together.

The scene - building tactic that the film keeps returning to entails the camera hunkering down in a defined space (a frat - house common room, a bar, a dugout) to observe a large group of characters tripping over each other with rapid - fire quips, cutting between them like a little steel ball careening wildly off ramps and spring - loaded slingshots.

SYNOPSIS: When a group of ordinary people learn that an eight - mile wide comet is on a collision course with Earth, they hunker beneath the town -LSB-...]

A select group of Senate and House negotiators are expected to hunker down and focus on the state's spending plan.

Instead of frolicking on the beach, NINC attendees were a hard - working group, bright spirits hunkered down through a selection of 25 sessions, from the very pragmatic, «How Libraries Buy, Lend and Promote Your Books,» to the somewhat romantic, «Build Your Audience with the Power of Love.»

The first such workshop, which I wrote about last year, saw 40 students, engineers, farmers, professors and others from 18 countries hunker down in groups to devise simple, affordable ways to clean water, chill produce, generate electricity, and solve other problems facing the world's poorest communities.

Mr. Zuckerberg spent part of the past week hunkered down with a small group of engineers to discuss how to make information on Facebook's users more secure, and to potentially give them more control of their data, according to two Facebook employees who declined to be named because the proceedings were confidential.

In the past week, one of the people said, Mr. Zuckerberg has spent significant time hunkered down with a small group of engineers to discuss how to make Facebook's users more secure, with more control of their data.