Sentences with phrase «lie upon the table»
«There is an idea that the presentation of a petition is an empty form - that it is ordered to lie upon the Table, and never heard of again,» Benjamin Disraeli told the Commons in 1843.
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At the heart of each is a busy kitchen with a table upon which lie volumes of a huge, ancient cookbook.
Months before he embarked upon a campaign for what would become his first term as state superintendent, Evers was lying on a Madison operating table while surgeons worked to rid him of a cancer that few survive.
These low lying contemporary coffee tables rest upon a polished carbon steel base.