Sentences with phrase «people around the table said»

Then several of the other people around the table said, «They just called you.

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«If possible, don't put people around the conference table,» Littman said.

With a diverse range of people around the table, Gouw says, «you're going to get a more 360 - degree view on the business.»

I recall us going around the table, with people introducing themselves: Ralph said he was «a peeping Thomist from Notre Dame,» and Ernie replied, «I was a Thomist» when I was a teenager.»

«The dining table was right on [Bemis's] farm, and people could look around and say «Oh, this thing that I'm eating was picked literally from right over there, where you're sitting,»» says Kosmas.

Lovely to see one of my «Dress Rehearsal» photographs too, I so love to play around with all the handmade items I have on offer, and judging from people's responses on the look / layout of table, many say It really is very pretty, quaint, cheerful, and colourful, and which always draws my lovely customers in for a mooch, with a smile: 0)

At birthdays, we always go around the table and each person has to say one thing that they like about the birthday boy or girl.

We were the only two people around the table who didn't drink alcohol and I remarked about that and he came back and said «thank you, I hadn't wanted to say it but I endorse that policy, how can we say that alcohol that causes untold harm — just look at domestic violence etc — if we think alcohol is that bad why don't we ban it?

Cameron says at the cabinet meeting yesterday all 29 people around the table agreed he had got a good deal.

«What Michael wants to create is a first class, world class state system which means that in future years you will have more pupils from state schools, people like me, around the cabinet table, and in that I fully support Michael Gove,» the faith and communities minister said.

«By bringing the right people around the table, understanding what the public investment was in the project, we were able to work out a mutually beneficial arrangement with the ownership to make sure they were hiring people in the city,» Walsh said.

But he used his Tory conference speech to say that the prime minister should go further and place the free movement of people around the EU on the negotiating table.

Mr Laws says of the talks with the Tories: «We sat around a conference table surveying each other with the surprise of people who had known each other for years and suddenly found themselves at the altar, having never quite seen the possibility.»

Mr Hunt said it was tempting for people to imagine politicians sitting around a table thrashing policies out, but «people need to know they won't».

«There was a big party of people feasting,» says Oates matter - of - factly, passing cookies around the table during afternoon tea in Brak's cramped mud - brick dining hall.

«Meaning no reading, no TV... no arguments with people around the table,» she says.

My children will remind me if I have forgotten our grace, which is most often like this: each person briefly says one thing they are grateful for as we go around the table.

«People realize sitting around the Thanksgiving table with their family and think, «Hey, I don't have my other half» or «My sister's married and I'm not,» so it's a cyclical event,» said Mark Brooks, dating industry consultant at OnlinePersonalsWatch.com.

I'm worried that if I say «eLearning» in a meeting and look around the table, someone is thinking «webinar», the next person envisions «Mortal Combat», someone else is thinking «e-reader», and the last poor guy wonders «um... what now?».

«People have their dogs out, about and around,» she says, noting that dogs are welcome at outside restaurant tables and town events such as the wine and food festival.

These pretty peonies will add a pop of color to a bedside table, desk, kitchen table, or bookshelf for the Instagram that says: «I'm the type of person who always has fresh flowers around.»

«No one was able to hear questions or answers, people crowded around tables, officials were unable to answer, and citizens left feeling ignored and frustrated,» she said.

Take the IPCC's 90 % it's AGW for instance — this is a completely subjective and arbitrary figure, and as simple as a group of people sat around a table discussing which percentage they should publish — «ok we're agreed, let's say 90 % then» — it says nothing scientifically as to the reality of the AGW situation, and can only mislead and actually likely to give the notion of certainty.

If you listen to the presentation you link to, you hear North say they «didn't do any research», that they just «took a look at papers», that they got 12 «people around the table» and «just kind of winged it.»