Sentences with phrase «people around the table who»

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?

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So the conversations around that question were formal; they set up meetings, they made sure the right people were sitting around the table, and they knew who was accountable.

The report was from Paul Kunert's The Register and cited a person who told Kunert, «While these things have a habit of fizzling out there are some fairly serious players around the table.»

On the day I visited Robin at her home near the university, the scene was bustling with people who were carrying around furniture and setting up a picnic table in the garden.

«I understand the church to be the people of God who follow Jesus into the world and so a gathering of the church occurs whenever and wherever believers gather, whether it is two or three around a dinner table, five or six in a living room, seven or eight at a coffee shop, or larger gatherings in some other building.»

But there is nothing wrong in inviting those who respond positively to the Person of Christ without leaving their religious and cultural community to form fellowships around the Lord's Table and the Word of God as «part of the Church» within their religious and cultural community - settings themselves and those who respond to the Christian values to consider acknowledging their source in Christ.

Go to Church functions, especially their dinners; the women who like to cook will be doing the cooking and besides having friendly people around you, helping you find a place at the table, you will have wonderful food and the best opportunity to meet a possible wife.

And we know the people too, not merely as strange faces gathered around the Table but as the Alabama fan, the new mom, the student who loves talking theology, the quilting club, the recovering fundamentalists, the friends.

While I'd love to be the kind of person who can put together a magazine shoot - worthy picnic set atop a chic table in a bag, more often than not, my picnics consist of several friends huddling around a cooler, passing around Pyrex containers of food.

This is an absolutely incredible dish... the kind where people at the table take a bite, pause, start to smile, and begin looking around at eveyrone else at the table, who are all doing the same thing.

In our casual, everyday conversations around the dinner table, if we do not try and consistently see things from another person's viewpoint, if we do not try and understand how someone else who is struggling has gotten to the point of trouble that they are in, our teen will see us as judgmental.

What is good is that you check around the web or locally and ask people who own foosball tables worth buying for their opinion and reviews.

I find it astonishing if you think about the talent you've got around that shadow cabinet table, even around that small circle of people who came out of the last government together — Miliband, Balls, Burnham, Yvette Cooper, I'm not Douglas» biggest fan but you can include him in that list.

Putting people like that around a cabinet table is a nightmareish thought for a PM who needs a team to work together through rough and smooth, even if they disagree with the direction of some things.

«So when I sit around the negotiating table in Europe this year, it will be with that in mind — the knowledge that I am there to get the right deal — not just for those who voted to Leave — but for every single person in this country.»

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.»

«I sat around a big table at AAAS with all of these people who had jobs I'd never heard of before, and thought «I didn't know these positions existed.»

In general, our political system regularly puts around the table people who are not the best equipped to find deep solutions to our problems.

While I'd love to be the kind of person who can put together a magazine shoot - worthy picnic set atop a chic table in a bag, more often than not, my picnics consist of several friends huddling around a cooler, passing around Pyrex containers of food.

Many of you did this even though it may have not been such a good year, and perhaps you lost people who had been around the table only a year ago, so full of life.

The Kings County Branch began because of a group of people who met around a kitchen table and decided to do something about helping homeless cats in Kings County.

She is a love bug who likes to snuggle on the couch with her people, and engage in «sing - alongs» around the dinner table.

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.»

In a generation full of remakes and sequels, this title was trying to bring something new and fresh to the table, one where you're a person who can free run around an open world, fight zombies, and deal with a dynamic night / day cycle which also changes how you interact with the environment and walking dead in the city.

I've always thought that people who made good Dungeon Masters also often made really good level designers for immersive sims, in particular, because it's this really magical blend of representing the game rules, the RPG system, but also being responsive to the fact that the players around the table are part of the narrative and driving the narrative.

Grotjahn, by all accounts an avid and adept poker player who's been known to spend hours at a time at casino gaming tables, makes paintings the way some people deal cards: working his way methodically around the surface with

If the people, who are supposed to be vetting the science and determining if the science passes muster, are blinded by their organism from the endorphins released when they hear the cause is man induced global warming, than peer review becomes nothing more than a 5th grade click of friends sitting around a lunch room table complaining about everyone who isn't as great as they are.

I chose not to be a sole practitioner because, in my view, having people sitting around my partnership table who are experienced and skilled in accountancy, cash flow, finance — all those extra things that help run a business — is less risk for everyone, including myself, and certainly less risk than if I tried to do everything on my own.

I then made flat newspaper pieces that were the real size of things like counters, fridges, daybeds, toilets, dining room tables, etc. and a friend and I spent a lovely afternoon moving them (and the walls) around in that taped space to come up with my floor plan, which works great (people always ask me who my architect was, LOL).