It was a club of English Alvis owners on a ramble through the countryside.
G20, a club of developing countries that fights to open rich-country markets through the World Trade Organisation.
That is why the euro zone was largely designed along French lines, as a club of sovereign states.
For a club of this size, we have to try to redress that balance as soon as possible.
"It's sad because a club of Middlesbrough's stature should be in the Premier League, " Hasselbaink told BBC Tees.
But in a club of 12 diverse countries, not everybody wants lower rates.
It's a great achievement for a club of our size and we have had to overcome a lot of obstacles.
Since its inception in the 1950s, the European project has been run and controlled by a club of national governments.
The rise of private equity and the spread of private markets are returning power to a club of privileged investors.
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The EU is a club of democracies, albeit one with unelected referees.
But most of these nations opted to join the Commonwealth, a club of countries all tied through history to the UK and the monarchy.
The EU, a club of Western liberal democracies, has struggled recently to keep some of the bloc's newer members on what it considers the proper legal path.
France, which holds the presidency of the Group of 20 (a club of the world's biggest economies) wants to discuss tax havens at next month's meeting in Cannes.
But the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (a club of mainly rich countries) predicts that the growth in Chinese steel demand this year will be just 10.7%.
And Taylor knows from his time at the same level with Man City in the 1998-99 season that the pressure will be on for a club of Forest's size.
Second, Mr Cameron needs to follow up on his intention of making his party, once a club of (near-) dead white males, look as though it represents modern Britain.
RECs, the two Scottish power companies, the Pool (a club of companies which runs the wholesale electricity market) and would-be new suppliers all have to be able to converse.
There is also growing optimism that Pakistan will get generous terms for rescheduling its debt with the Paris Club - a club of rich states which lend money to less developed countries.
The other big institutional change is the ascension of the Financial Stability Board (FSB), a club of central bankers and financial regulators, which has also been broadened to include the big developing countries.
Rusty Schweickart, a member of the Association of Space Explorers, a club of ex-astronauts and cosmonauts, has been working with his colleagues to lobby the United Nations to put asteroid-impact planning on the agenda.
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Contrary to conventional wisdom, providers in tax havens, such as Jersey and the Cayman Islands, were much more likely to comply with the standards than those from the OECD, a club of mostly rich countries.
Once he attended a meeting there of La Cumbre ("The Summit"), a club of elite cigar aficionados, including a Moscow clothes retailer, a Chicago collector of pre-Castro cigars and a cigar merchant from the Cayman Islands.
But more weight than usual will be given to the verdict of monitors from the Southern African Development Community (SADC), a club of 15 countries, which has endorsed Zimbabwe's previous flawed elections out of solidarity for a fellow member.
Some Bulgarians would like their country to help form a club of Balkan countries that could together argue for a 20-year freeze on foreign debt in return for demilitarisation and tying their currencies, as Bulgaria has already done, to the euro.
Run by full-time chairman Richard Tims, 43, the oldest football team in the world has gone from its humble beginnings in a Sheffield potting shed to a club of three senior teams, 13 junior teams, a women's team and one disability team.
"It will be very, very difficult for anybody in the future to match what Sir Alex has done at a club of that magnitude, " said Andy Roxburgh, who succeeded Ferguson as Scottish national team coach in 1986 and is now the sporting director for the New York Red Bulls.
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Now he has it, he has become a significant regional player, one of a growing club of Thai entrepreneurs moving from domestic success onto a tougher and more sophisticated global stage.
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At 9-16, with a team batting average of .229 and a club ERA of 4.50, the numbers are hardly adding up to what the revamped Blue Jays expected, even with star shortstop Jose Reyes on the disabled list.
As a new independent global city state, joining Singapore and Dubai, and soon to be joined by Shanghai and others, London would be controlling its own destiny at the centre of a future club of truly global nations.
To some, a white student at the helm of a club for black kids is a symptom of the school's lack of diversity.
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