The phrase "associates sat" is not correct in written English and lacks clarity.
It seems to be an incomplete thought or a fragment that does not convey a clear meaning.
Example: "The associates sat in the conference room, waiting for the meeting to begin."
Alternatives: "employees were seated" or "staff members sat".
The associates sat at little round café tables on red plastic chairs.
The rest of us, the "associates," sat in front of six-year-old Compaq computers and attempted to collect stale, charged-off accounts purchased for pennies on the dollar from Chase Bank, Household Bank, American Express, and other original creditors.
Then it's off to the family digs, where Oliver and his new associates sit in chairs once owned byCatherine the Great, puff on Cuban cigars, and toast their business venture from silver-chased ram's horns.
In fact, every quarter the partners and associates sit down and have lunch together and talk about administrative issues, and then we turn over the meeting to the associates to bring up their concerns.
Don't continue for longer, otherwise he will associate "Sit" (and treats) with boredom.
Campaign finance records show that at least three Rezko associates who sat on the hospital board made substantial donations to Mr. Blagojevich and to Mr. Obama in 2003 and 2004.
Inside Mr. Feinberg's New York office, Mr. Nass and a young associate, Aaron Devaney, sat on one side of an oblong conference table.
What is known is that Lord Ashcroft's long-time business associate Philip Osborne sat on the board of Telemedia, and the peer helped to negotiate a controversial 2005 agreement between Telemedia and the then government, which put taxpayer guarantees behind Telemedia's profitability– a sweetheart deal Mr Barrow has repudiated.
Dr. B., as Beyster is known by close associates, rarely sits for interviews.
Until a series of changes that were announced last month, the eight trustees -- including Major McDowell, his daughter and several close associates -- automatically sat on the board, with voting powers five times those of regular directors.
For instance, I thought my new associate should sit in the cubicle next to mine, and so I made a playful attempt to take the colleague seated there — a young woman named Marisa — by the back of her collar and the hem of her skirt.
