Sentence examples for a sustained conversation from inspiring English sources

Some university graduates "cannot even have a sustained conversation", according to the shadow minister for higher education, Boris Johnson.

"We want to have a sustained conversation with consumers year-round," said Pio Schunker, senior vice president for integrated marketing communications at the Coca-Cola North America division of Coca-Cola, and "the scale and size of the Super Bowl" will help "kick-start a really big conversation".

On his website he said: "Too many graduates are simply not ready for the workplace, and it is terrifying to discover that some of them cannot even have a sustained conversation". His comments were made in response to a survey by the Association of Graduate Recruiters earlier this month which Mr Johnson claimed showed too many graduates lacked basic skills for work.

"Her research experience was fantastic, but to have a sustained conversation about teaching, she was going to have to find that somewhere else".

Sometimes after 5 or 10 minutes it's really hard to have a sustained conversation with a 7-year-old," but kids can joke around with Grampa using the selfie filters when they run out of run-on stories to tell them.

In the interview, he said he was encouraged to pursue a California initiative by both local gun-control advocates, whom he called "lawyers in the trenches," and "national groups … who feel we need a sustained conversation with the public".

"Theoretically, it is possible to have a serious, sustained conversation on BumpList," said Michael Paulukonis, a technology professional in Scranton, Pa., who is a BumpList member, by e-mail.

Aides outlining the plan conceded that they were looking to start a "more sustained conversation" with Congress on closing Guantánamo, rather than adopting any new tool out of the morass.

The exchange of a few daily pleasantries will be permitted, although sustained conversation will be banned.

For the first hour or so, a d.j. had the volume cranked up sufficiently to render sustained conversation out of the question, so guests migrated from the food stations (chicken soup with kreplach, braised brisket, lox, bagels, babka, rugelach) to the bar, where the specialty drinks included Have-a-Tequilas, Shmooze-tinis (gin, vermouth, pickle), and Whiskey Sour'krauts (again with the pickle).

Only smatters of information come through, and no sustained conversation about what matters most.