In his sketch, a man is speaking to a woman seated across a table.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice could soon be sitting across a table from her counterparts in Iran and Syria.
Across a table in his cavernous Las Vegas studios, he tells me how he designed his first casino fresh out of architecture school.
Is it going to be the U.S. sitting across a table with our EU partners, our Russian partners, our Arab League partners and looking at a fresh map?
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According to someone familiar with the details of the meeting, the two men sat across a table from each other, Mr. Woods flanked by his agent and Mr. Finchem joined by another PGA Tour executive.
They can be moved to another camera or a hard drive by sliding the images across the table -- much as one would slide a picture across a regular table.
On a Monday morning, not long ago, I was sitting across a conference table from Audrey, the VP of Human Resources for a large global manufacturing company.
Across a cluttered table at Lego's base in Billund an original Mindstorms robot faces the new crew like a last dinosaur eyeing frisky new species.
Upping the ante, from the coins that tourists happily lose in the town's myriad amusement arcades to ten chips being lost across a green baize gaming table, is a serious possibility.
You can even seat visitors on a low sofa across the room and place a coffee table in front of them.
Across the table was a scientist working on rocket propulsion at (I believe) Marshall Space Center.
Some had speculated the seating arrangements would force civility, as the two candidates and the moderator sat in proximity across the curve of a table.
"Latin America has already gone through a lot of pain to squeeze out the bad parts of the economy, " says Cisneros from across a finely polished wood table in his plush Manhattan offices.
Still, that night at dinner, I grimaced in pain each time I reached across the table to dip a chip in guacamole.
When the diners finally file out, the corpse of a lion is sprawled across the table.
So did Taiga, as his father sat a few feet away across the dinner table.
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So this effort gives you all a seat at the table not just at the White House or at the Pentagon or at the VA. It gives you a seat at the table all across the federal government.
The short-term increase in the borrowing cap is the brainchild of House Republicans, who wanted to re-sequence a series of upcoming budget battles, taking the threat of a potentially devastating government default off the table and instead setting up a clash in March over automatic across-the-board spending cuts set to strike the Pentagon and many domestic programs.
My coffee date arrives wearing his token Angry Birds sweatshirt, takes a seat and slides his business card across the table.
New York-based designer and manufacturer Sandy Chilewich reinvented the art of the table when she came across woven vinyl, a kind of extruded yarn that could be encased in PVC.
Across the U.S. and Canada, a resurgence of table hockey is under way, drawing younger players and women to a sport that has long been the domain of older men in their basements reliving a game that hasn't been popular since they were kids.
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In Italy, where I can slide my mortar and pestle across a counter, brace myself, and move it to the table, the only thing that ever fell on my foot was a full bottle of Barolo, and it was three in the morning, I had been working late, and the fig tart in the oven was about to burn.
With that in mind, I took the liberty to give a summary of many of the ideas across the ebook (see Table 1) .
If you have sat across the table for months on end with Cyril Ramaphosa and found a way by which sworn enemies can come together to craft a new nation (and become firm friends), then the frustrations that drive the rest of us to distraction seem to count for little.
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Among those sitting quietly across the table was his old deputy, Wang Zhihua, who was now a county oil official.
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One night in Kenya (I was there), a comely woman at the peak of her beauty, lent across the dinner table and told Teller that she used to do life modelling.
So he jumped into the front row of little girls and Nigel Lythgoe, sashayed across the judges' table, taking care not to linger too long on a clearly NOT amused Steven Tyler, and basically treated the performance as if he were a karaoke star.
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It takes guts to make a pitch and have to watch the realtime response of the person sitting across the table.
To an outsider, Mr Persson comes across as ideally suited to European negotiations: cheerful, shrewd and with a politician's instinctive interest in the sticking-point of the person across the table.
And he was good-natured about it and said, can't you just keep one, one case for me, so that when I come in - and I said, I tell you what, you let me know when you're coming in and I'll run across the street and buy you a bottle of flat still water and have it on your table.
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