After months of conversations among representatives from the Fire Department, the union and Holt — as well as two interim acting assistant fire marshals — the Fire Department again offered Holt the job on June 8.
After class, conversations among participants and faculty often spilled into the hallways and continued over meals as the visiting scholars steeped in a swirl of ideas they described as invigorating, inspiring and uniquely UChicago.
Plato's "Symposium" is an after-dinner conversation among seven men, who, over wine, take turns saying what they think love is.
Heather Armstrong, a blogger in Salt Lake City who writes publicly about her family (dooce.com), stopped accepting unmoderated comments on her blog two years ago after she found that conversations among visitors consistently devolved into vitriol.
The decision was taken after conversations with him.
After conversations with him he's prepared to do that".
The idea to go to Vietnam, a rare stop for Western orchestras, emerged in conversations among orchestra officials after the North Korea trip, Zarin Mehta, the orchestra's president, said in an interview.
"We didn't want office politics around [salaries]," he says, referring to the inevitable after-hours conversations that occur among colleagues comparing workloads and compensation.
Inside, Mr. LaPlante served as the host at table after table, listening to hyperventilated conversations among each set of 12 participants, the marketing aphorisms flitting around the table like so many feeding swallows.
A decade or two after college, however, that question often comes to dominate conversations among friends and between spouses.
These are conversations among workmates, not intimates.
