Britain still sits at the top table for most purposes, though in increasing discomfort.
For this reason we must renegotiate rather than step down from Europe's top table.
He will claim a seat for Europe at the top table when a peace process beckons.
Yet Poland must raise its game to regain its rightful place at Europe's top table.
To Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats, it meant that there was a seat at the top table.
That Eibar even reached the top table in Spain is staggering, that it is holding its own is even more so.
The G20 meeting in Pittsburgh secured the place of emerging markets at the top table of global economic policy.
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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.
They lack scale and resources and are usually underrepresented at the top table.
One way or another, he looks destined to join Messi and Ronaldo at football's top table sooner rather than later.
Seated alongside Bradley at the top table is the gaunt-looking Brian Dooher, who has five Ulster medals and three All-Ireland gongs.
All but 4 of the 20 top performers came out before 1996, the busiest year of the decade (see top table).
And having waited 48 years for a return to Europe's top table, Spurs cannot afford to let the opportunity slip through their fingers.
After all, this man almost unseated Mahathir in 1987, spent a decade in the wilderness, and made it back nearly to the top table.
Mr Monti immediately was offered a seat at Europe's top table.
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.
Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore welcomed City to the top table and said that despite the money in football, the game was still about sporting success.
She had a glass-top table and a white leather sofa and we hung in the doorway and leaned against the walls, killing time while waiting for her.
The previous French attempt to regain a place at the top table of military planning collapsed in 1996, partly because France bid too high for senior commands.
They joined for the wrong reasons - a determination to have a seat at the top table rather than a careful analysis of the country's economic interests.
The Scarlets sit a point above the Dragons with a game in hand, knowing one win will be enough for automatic qualification to European club rugby's top table.
On Sunday, Birmingham boss Alex McLeish will dine at football's top table, competing with the aristocrats of Arsenal for the season's first silverware on a pristine Wembley surface.
His third incarnation, as a maverick at the top table of power politics, came after he had led the Greens to their best-ever result, in the 1998 elections.
As my colleague, Laurence Norman reported Thursday, the British will get a seat at the top table on the summit due in late-January or early-February to discuss these matters.
America is not, but new rules from the Securities and Exchange Commission will require firms to reveal what, if anything, they are doing to increase diversity at the top table.
He eventually graduated to more high-profile roles in films such as "Yuva" and Karan Johar's "Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna, " also known as KANK, taking his place at the top table.
Mr Prescott's working life took him from a job as a steward on cruise ships to the top table of government - serving as deputy prime minister throughout the Blair administration.
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Forget all that, the ICA now wants to be part of the art world establishment, to sit with confidence at the top table with Tate, the Serpentine and the Frieze Art Fair.
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.
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