"We're not going to be forced to sit down at the table, " says ESPN programmer Ronald Semiao.
Whether or not the Ulster Unionists sit down at the table opposite Sinn Fein, only agree to attend if they can sit in another room, or refuse to talk to anyone but the British government, may not matter that much.
It makes it nearly impossible for people who have legitimate but bridgeable differences to sit down at the same table and hash things out.
And as a professional negotiation coach, I know what that mindset can do to people and companies before they formally sit down at the negotiation table.
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Stronger sanction pressure, which some of our partners see almost as a goal in itself, will not encourage Iran to sit down at the negotiating table.
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Is America entering a new era in which ideaological oppononets rise above the rhetoric and sit down at the negotiating table to hammer out their differences in lieu of pointed media and political attacks?
The first candidate to sit down at the dark-stained conference table was a Chinese-American, from Washington state, named Andrew Hsu.
Once the class is over, the participants sit down at the family's dinner table to enjoy what they have prepared together.
And that is that the American people would like to see Democrats and Republicans sit down at a table, be it here, be it there, and work through important solutions to the problems that face the American people.
When the last of them has been nominated and confirmed, Congress should sit them down at a witness table (or tables) and ask them to agree on a few points.
By the time I went to sit down, there were only three empty seats left at this very long table of perhaps sixty people.
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