Sentences with phrase «of people at the tables»

We were a hungry bunch, which was obvious from the overloaded plates in front of each person at the table.

Some of the people at my table were consoling me.

«If environmental scientists truly espouse the ethical value of inclusivity, including diverse groups of people at the tables of research, decision making, policy and public debate, it is not only necessary to share scientific data, it is ethically obligatory,» Elliott said.

And one of the people at the table said, «Climate change is a hoax.»

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When you meet someone at a Chamber of Commerce luncheon and hand your business card across the table, you add yet one more person to those who know about your business.

It also set me on the path of really understanding and fully appreciating the idea of trans - disciplinary work, that you need to have different people at the table coming up with solutions.

Lisa Kramer, an associate professor of finance at the University of Toronto, worries that if people think of investing as a game, rather than as a way to save for retirement, then portfolio construction could become just another table to play.

And while some older people may discount Mulcahy's strategy of using a chat box on her website as impersonal, she sees it as a way to communicate with customers on their time table — maybe at 11 p.m. when they happen to need a tutor or want to book an appointment.

At the top of the list are the multitude of remote controls the average person has sitting on his or her coffee table.

A decade later, she found herself at the table with some of the world's most powerful people.

The 18 - person chef's table is described on il Buco's website as «a cozy, semi-private dining nook at the back of the restaurant opposite the kitchen.»

And we now have really good people at the company focused on this, so our ability to sniff out in diligence a promising idea or approach versus companies that aren't bringing a lot of value to the table is pretty good.

It's like putting a piece of paper between two people sitting at a table, and talking about it.

Today, that deal no longer looks sustainable, so a new, unspoken one now lies on the table: In exchange for a (further) loss of freedoms and (now) economic hardship, the Russian people will swell with national pride at a Russia — once mocked and belittled by the West — now retaking its rightful place at the center of global power politics.

Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin, the University of California, San Diego and Disney Research recently conducted a study and found that when a person's smartphone is nearby — on the table or even in the same room — that person's performance on a cognitive task (requiring problem - solving and reasoning) will likely suffer.

The seven people around the rectangular table in room 112G are enacting a scene that is playing out at business schools all over the world, as admission committees decide the fate of tens of thousands of applicants to their MBA programs.

Overused images of people in headsets staring at computer screens or suited men around a boardroom table are incredibly inauthentic.

Walk fast and self assuredly to the back of the main floor and use the elevator on your right Get off on the lower floor at the grill and find a table in the dining room or the lounge area that allows ample surveillance of the club and seats you next to people that will provide satisfactory eavesdropping.

«When you look at the way that companies are adopting benefits these days, you see a lot of people doing things like offering free lunches, beer, and ping pong tables,» says Gradifi CMO Meera Oliva.»

«Our sense is people leave some ideas on the table and stop prematurely, out of some sense they've exhausted the creative process,» says Loran Nordgren, an associate professor of management and organizations at Kellogg.

However, he observes, functionality has been an issue with some early pay - at - the - table solutions, largely because they were designed by people who lack understanding of the specifics of the restaurant industry.

A lot of people badmouth each other before competitions, there's words that get exchanged here and there, and then you kind of fight at the table, right?

Richard J. Reddick, associate professor of educational leadership and policy at the University of Texas, writes for Fortune that some people of color might be cynical about Starbucks» response to the crisis that was precipitated by a store manager calling the cops on two black men sitting at a table (after a mere couple of minutes of them not buying anything.)

Baldet, who has spent a lot of her time in tech working with at - risk populations, stresses how having someone at the design table who represents the people who are going to use the technology can sometimes even be a matter of life or death.

Books: Human Resources in the Family Business: Maximizing the Power of Your People This book will help HR managers and founders / owners develop a formal process within the company and also provide insights from family firms on how to manage sensitive topics ranging from family member compensation; family member appraisal, etc., and serves as a guide to HR managers struggling to get a «seat at the table» in family firms.

Some think there are fewer patsies at the poker table leading to a dearth of alpha opportunities while others assume it will be easy pickings for active investors as more people index.

However, when people play table games such as Black Jack at the Royal Vegas Online Casino, it is going to feel as if most of the cash transactions and most of everything that goes on there manages to be indirect.

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This is like sitting at a dinner table of six and deciding you are only going to speak to the person to the right of you.

Being passionate about life and work and finding inspiration from other people are key ingredients that make for winners, according to several speakers at on the Tuesday morning platform of Million Dollar Round Table...

Let's look at the two tables below in which two people secured a loan of $ 10,000 each at fixed interest rates of 12 per cent and 20 per cent respectively.

Josh here — now, of course, there will be people at the table who don't care about these facts.

People reap what they sew, if there is a hell he earned a seat at the head of the table.

If Jesus embodies God's dreams for the world, then citizens of the Kingdom start by imitating him — by eating with the people he ate with, by telling the sort of stories he told, by healing and forgiving, by serving and praying, by resisting the temptations of power and money and violence, by breaking down religious barriers, by loving enemies, by showing humility and grace, by overturning some tables and dining at others, by being obedient to the point of death.

I love it because of your honesty, and I love it because I think it echoes what a lot of people experience in churches when they suspect abuse, but don't say anything - the ignoring of the intuitions, the pull of «belonging» to the greater group, the shame associated with telling, the pain when they * do * tell and then are immediately ostracized (so painful, when I'm guessing you thought you «belonged» at the table, and were only participating as you thought you had right to?

We claim to honour the «least of these» and to be a people who lay down power, who believe that the greatest is the servant, and that the way to really get ahead in the Kingdom of God is to put others first, to amplify other voices, to make room at the table.

A number of different «hug a black person movements» — that sought after sitting at tables and talking to each other — stalled a real pursuit of reconciliation, which would be seeking both substantial, transformative change and a transformation of the heart that would lead to truth - telling on a systemic level.

«We» can mean different groups of people in different contexts, and honestly I often have to point out that the «we» too often excludes non-White voices at the table.

At the Lord's Table people of all classes and races are welcome — surely a model of coexistence that is by no means common in the human city.

Members of a congregation where people are strangers to one another find it difficult to imagine or even comprehend the meanings associated with fellowship at the Table of the Lord.

I recall in one parish suggesting at Christmas time that an extra place should be laid at the festive table to remind us of the hungry and that the equivalent of the cost of one person's meal should be donated to Christian Aid.

In this world «often the selfishness of a few will not permit the weaker ones to benefit fully from resources and other goods, from commerce, scientific discoveries, the benefits of new technology; all this can help to negate the equal right of every people to be seated at the table of the common banquet.»

On the other side of the door was my friend David sitting at a table, and within that room were hundreds of people all sitting at tables, with food laid out before them, but they hadn't started eating yet.

«That's a really significant thing; a lot of them throughout the year don't even sit at a table with other people.

A moderately gifted person has to keep his or her gifts all bottled up until, in a manner of speaking, he or she gets drunk at a wedding and tap - dances on the coffee table like Fred Astaire or Ginger Rogers.

My big mistake, which a more mathematical person would have avoided, has been that my arrangement of a full table of the options in Creative Synthesis, the only book of mine that has it at all, is mathematically inelegant, which considerably reduces its power.

If a person is sitting at a table alone and is talking to an empty chair across from them, what are we to think of that person?

If a person is sitting at a table alone and they close their eyes and bow their head and talk, what are we to think of that person?

Those who gather at the Table of the Lord on Sunday morning reveal the kind of people who belong to the congregation.

What Mark S. and others are clearly pointing out that these church people can say anything at Citizens of the US and if they want to speak in an official capacity for the church, that's fine too, but they should in no way be invited to the planning table with the joint chiefs the same way that PETA can stomp their feet all they want to but aren't actually involved with congress on how to tax meat products.