It makes it nearly impossible for people who have legitimate but bridgeable differences to sit down at the same table and hash things out.
That peace conference, in Madrid, was the first time Israel and its Arab enemies had sat down at the same table to discuss peace.
Much of Mr Obama's policy rests on the assumption that Russia still wants to sit at the same table as America and be integrated into world structures.
Still, there was some valuable symbolism in having leaders from emerging markets at the same table as leaders from industrialized countries--apparently for the first time ever on these issues.
It is as if a mob of half-brothers who had never been introduced all chose to congregate at the same table in the same bar and brandish their mobile telephones simultaneously.
To further mix things up, each grouping includes a wide number of wine options, and it is not unusual for the sommelier to offer two different people at the same table having the same dish two different wines.
Engine has done the important work in encouraging the people with energy and ideas to literally sit at the same table with the people who make the laws that will either help or hurt their ability to bring these ideas to fruition.
We tend in this town to spend most of our time focusing on what we don't agree on, and I think, as I said earlier, the model of a lame duck session where people can have a civil conversation sitting at the same table making progress on issues is I think what the American people are looking for.
Roger Clemens, one of the great pitchers of our time, appeared at the same witness table with his accuser and former trainer Brian McNamee.
The three of them sat at the kitchen table, saying the same things over and over, so that by August the words began to rhyme with each other and sound strange.
Mr. Sarkozy "expressing the idea publicly with three weeks to go to the end of his first mandate isn't necessarily a bad idea as it puts the subject on the table without at the same time committing the French government or defining its position, " said BNP Paribas senior economist Dominique Barbet.
The old-school hustlers were left with no leverage at the negotiating table with the owners of capital, while at the same time being at their mercy, instead of at the mercy of Wild West nature.
For a majority of the time period shown on the chart, most analysts have pounded the table about the great fundamentals of Apple and at the same time have warned about the poor fundamentals of Research In Motion and Nokia.
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After watching the ball land on red ten times in a row, most people would be itching to get a seat at the roulette table, even if they knew the table was fair and the odds were the same as always.
The leaders of 17 nations sat at an arc-shaped table in the opulent Salle des Fetes of France's Elysee Palace, the same room used to sign the Bosnia peace accords, for the signing of the Founding Act on Mutual Relations, Cooperation and Security.
At the other end of the table, the reasons behind the thinking are different, yet the end result the same.
You'll actually see a table in the economic report in chapter two that actually shows you what other people were forecasting at the same time we were doing our forecast, to kind of give you just the facts on the degree to which the world was changing very quickly.
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