And if you fight for your seat at the table, and you set a better example, and you persevere in what you decide to do with your life, I have every faith not only that you will succeed, but that, through you, our nation will continue to be a beacon of light for men and women, boys and girls, in every corner of the globe.
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Its fenced back yard with well-tended grass has a brown painted picnic table, swing love seat and lounging chairs.
But health spokeswoman Baroness Northover insisted Healthwatch would have "clout" and a "seat at the top table" in representing the interests of patients and the public.
Getting a seat at the table and helping to shape sustainability standards is something every company should consider, and fast.
After all, she had a seat at the table and could report events in a way that none of us ever get to experience, only read about.
Private business did not have a seat at the table, and has suffered as a result ever since.
Why should I have a seat at the table, and what table did I want to be at anyway?
It also won him a seat at the table, and why?
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The palace's State Dining Room, where we wait for the president, is a grand, lavish affair, complete with chandeliers and a long hardwood table that can seat 50.
France, of course, has long been the bogeyman of the Atlantic alliance, always anxious to stake its claim to a seat at the top table and yet always seen as inevitably and irritatingly slow to endorse American-led initiatives.
My inspiration came from the 15 women fellows who are heavy hitters from the business, academic and nonprofit communities women who have earned a seat at the board table after many years of distinguished service and hard work.
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Successful businesswoman shy to throw down and take their seat at the table.
And, as a final straw, your golden-boy position has been usurped by an even more glamorous and meaningless seat at the board table: the chief technology officer.
From now on, the G20 will replace the narrower, Western-dominated G8 as the primary global economic talking-shop, giving the likes of China, India and Brazil a permanent seat at the table.
The power positions matter a lot in the nation's capital, and when you have a seat at the table, that's what counts.
My coffee date arrives wearing his token Angry Birds sweatshirt, takes a seat and slides his business card across the table.
While the environmental group is given a seat at the negotiating table, private property owners and other affected residents are not given the opportunity to object to these settlements.
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Book a table for dinner and listen to the live music from the comfort of your seat.
When used on a desk, table, or airplane seat tray, with the kickstand holding the screen upright and the keyboard cover with movable keys, the Pro is a serviceable laptop, especially since, unlike on an iPad or Android tablet, you can use full-fledged PC programs.
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Mr Jones took the smiling and clapping, mind-your-body-language seat at the top table, Mr Smith took to the lectern.
You can even seat visitors on a low sofa across the room and place a coffee table in front of them.
The oak - which had a huge hollow trunk said to big enough to seat six people at a table - had become a local attraction for walkers and visitors in recent years.
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.
To Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats, it meant that there was a seat at the top table.
The CEO had ignored my attempts to keep the conversation on topic, and mid-way through I was fervently wishing for an ejection seat that could have launched me up from that table through hatch in the ceiling, and safely out of that conversation.
They worked tirelessly with the Tribes on a government-to-government basis, and conducted an unprecedented series of tribal consultation and outreach meetings to ensure that everyone affected by this new rule had a seat at the table.
Now the permanent observers are being joined by China, Japan, India, South Korea, Singapore and Italy, meaning that all of the key Asian economies now have a seat at the Arctic table, even though they will not have a vote on the Arctic Council.
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