We don't hang out here during the day, but when we have important guests and we have dinners and we have big parties and there are press conferences and things like that, that happens down here.
"With this appalling housing record, no one should take lectures from Labour housing ministers who seem to come and go faster than most people have hot dinners, " he said.
Presidents have used state dinners in different ways and have had different approaches to them.
Longer trips with small groups and frequent follow-up dinners have been replaced in business by occasional mass outings.
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While the four women have been eating dinners together in London, they've also been examining scouting reports on each other's vulnerabilities.
We entertain clients, enjoy epic dinners and have late-night poker parties with colleagues.
Already they have started cooking school dinners for other local authorities.
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School children in a Devon village have swapped their school dinners for pub lunches because of a lack of space in the school to serve food.
That you have to cram as many family occasions and dinners and lunches and so forth into the time that you have.
And go have a normal life, dinners in restaurants and go to museums and things like that.
"Normally you have to go to ten dinners with these rich people before you can ask about a donation, " says Yau.
Those expenses, including first-class airfare and fancy dinners, would have been paid for by the very shareholders Robbins Geller claims to represent.
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We take time, when we have it, to enjoy dinners together, to play video games, to walk our new puppy and to celebrate life's happy moments.
But even after the gifts have been exchanged and the holiday dinners purchased, the pressure to give hasn't ended.
The soup is considered a must-have at Chinese wedding banquets and corporate dinners as a matter of wealth, pride and prestige.
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Dinners in the smart onboard restaurant have an unmistakably outback flavour, with kangaroo fillet on the menu, while Platinum Service passengers can order 24-hour room service and breakfast in bed.
Well, you know what, if you pull up behind our police station and say you're giving out free chicken dinners, you'll probably have 50 cops in line waiting for a free chicken dinner.
Granted most Christmas dinners are often too small to have catered and most personal chefs are booked up with regular clients, says Candy Wallace, founder and director of the American Personal Chef Association.
Mr Carey might have cut down on the itineraries and schedules and dinners.
"All the time he was creating this whole lore, he was also making dinners and comfortable spaces for people to have sometimes painful conversations, " she says.
Schoolchildren in a Gloucestershire town have been going to their local pub for their school dinners.
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We have invited -- and this goes to previous state dinners -- invited leaders from both parties.
As you've seen from this year, I have been on the other side of these visits and dinners -- as a guest in many countries.
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Special VIP sections are created, with extra luxuries and exclusive sit down dinners, to ensure that the most important guests have all the attention they need.
It is rather like one of the buffet dinners so favoured by global gatherings, where you have to balance a wine glass and a plate in one hand, feed yourself with the other, try and have a sensible conversation and exchange cards with three people at the same time.
On the eurozone meeting, I think that what has often developed in the course of these summits is a belief that often you can continue to have spinoff conversations in sessions outside of the formal plenaries and working dinners.
Have I tried to put an organization together that could raise funds, give dinners, get celebrities to sing and dance to get medicine, to do something to try and help these people that are dying, and dying this horrible death?
Lamar Alexander (R-Tennessee) and Mark Warner (D-Virginia) and a handful of others, for example, have launched laudable work on this count in the Senate, pulling together small, quiet dinners with legislators from both sides of the aisle who are strong in principles but equally strong in their commitment to moving the ball forward for the country.
School dinners will be put at risk by new premises regulations that no longer require schools to have proper kitchens and canteens, say campaigners.
The breakfasts, the lunches and the dinners, the endless speeches and the private seminars, the industry forums and the business commissions: all have represented a ruthless determination to achieve that.
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