All being well, prime ministers will bring them to a close with some decisive late-night table-thumping in December.
In her mind, she opened the drawer of his night table, just to be appalled by the number of pill bottles there, the dirty secret of his decline.
I've devoted great care to planning how I'll exit the scene: every month for the last year I've been pilfering a sleeping pill from Maman's box on the night-table.
What you see over and over are reports of people sitting around the kitchen table night after night and month after month and year after year trying to think up an idea but never doing anything.
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We spent about two weeks talking about this every night at the dinner table.
It serves me at home where we maintain a tradition of gathering each night at the dinner table to eat and talk to each other.
When it came time to negotiate a new teachers' contract in 2005, Mr. Kennedy harangued the bargainers and kept them at the table all night on more than one occasion deflecting the distractions that normally dominate such talks until he finally got an agreement.
The lesson to private creditors from Germany, the IMF and others at the negotiating table last night would seem to be that things are getting back to normal, and that normality cannot just mean that stock markets and bond prices continue to go up.
But its location within the atmospheric old part of the city gives it a special vibrancy (if sometimes a little too much: The building closest to the fort has strong barnyard aromas from a neighbor's livestock, and the calls to prayer at the mosque next door are the reason earplugs are left on your side table at night).
Put simply, this government thinks you get the best outcome if individual countries can go their own way, as far as is feasible, within a framework that gives a level playing field to companies and individuals, wherever they operate in the EU. Many around the table last night favour giving more powers to the centre - and more harmonisation.
The oft-aloof star was jovial, dancing at her table and toasting with people seated at her table throughout the night.
The two couples had joined Sergeant and partner Kristina Rihanoff at the bottom of the score table following Saturday night's performances.
But while Mr Miller sat at the summit table on Thursday night, a group of parliamentarians from his Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) met in Warsaw and agreed to break away and form a new party.
The Hatchet and the Scalpel clashed Wednesday night at a debate over kitchen table issues.
The night before, around the dinner table, I was feted like a would-be conquering hero by the other guests at the ranch.
Negotiators for the players' union and Major League Baseball will stay at the bargaining table until late Thursday night, trying to resolve increases in revenue sharing and the level of a luxury tax on high-payroll teams that would slow salary increases.
At the end of the night the two car collectors at my table, obviously moved by the experienced, declared that they were going to buy another Rolls Royce.
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Two hours later he was back at the table, writing through the night without feeling tired, until 8:30 the next morning when he packed up his computer, showered and dressed again, and got his family ready for the trip to Nashville for the first memorial service.
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Was it really a surprise then that, when the votes were tallied on Tuesday night, Obama won handily and almost ran the table of the swing states?
While he hadn't logged a sick day in 10 years, Vyhnanek hadn't shared his food-preparation techniques with anyone either. (There was an assistant chef, but he only knew his way around appetizers and desserts.) One day, the odds caught up: Felled by the flu, Vyhnanek closed the restaurant on a Saturday night, leaving bills for 90 dinners on the table.
Tranmere moved above Sheffield Wednesday in the League One table following victory over the Owls on Tuesday night, leaving Les Parry's side enjoying the relative safety of 15th position.
Weary and frustrated, John Franciosi needed to blow off steam late one Saturday night last December when he sauntered up to the craps table at the MGM Grand Casino in downtown Detroit.
But she put food on the table by singing piano jazz and Broadway tunes at night on Houston's club circuit.
One night, when Vivian and her parents were seated at the table, about to eat their dinner, her father started crying.
One Friday night in May, Zikmund-Fisher looked across the dinner table at 3-year-old Jesse and noticed that his right ear, which usually lies close to his head, was sticking out.
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He had been at the Philpotts' house on the night of the fire and had sex with Mairead on a snooker table, with the support and encouragement of her husband.
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For her, it's both good business to share a table at a benefit with clients and an enjoyable date night with her husband, a radiologist who "punches out at five o'clock" and is usually free after that.
He puts in an additional 2 hours in the morning and 2 hours in the evening that he would spend driving instead, yet he is more relaxed and has more energy than ever before and is able to be at the dinner table, with our family, on time, every night, which never happened while commuting to work.
He ended his night by challenging Rockets general manager Daryl Morey in ping pong on a table that was a centerpiece to the gala.
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