Sentence examples for dining members from inspiring English sources

"He's spending an awful lot of time wining and dining members of Congress," she told me last week.

Using these publicity skills, and displaying precocious evidence of lobbying ability (he gave President Andrew Jackson a handgun and pioneered the practice of wining and dining members of Congress, Coltt aimed his campaign at the growing middle class.

Critics may wish he would take a leaf out of Johnson's book and spend some of that time wining and dining members of Congress, who have reputedly seen him as cold and aloof during years of deadlock.

The frequent criticism of the president, at least in establishment circles, is that he doesn't spend enough time wining and dining members of Congress.

Ansar Dine's leader, Iyad Ag Ghali, repudiated the MNLA's claim of independence for Azawad, stating that Ansar Dine members considered themselves Malian, opposed dividing the country, and wanted to impose Sharīʿah law throughout the entire country, not just in the contested northern territory.

In Timbuktu, people told the BBC that Ansar Dine members are going from door-to-door telling occupants that they now have to live by the principles of Islamic law.

"Even the smallest exceptions to the gift ban allow people to find some way to wine and dine members of Congress," he said.

The group will dine with members of the Thai royal family, experience private cooking demonstrations and visit local markets where everything from fried grasshoppers to barbecued goat head is for sale.

I had dined with members of the Chinese unit just six hours earlier.

And then they all left for dinner in the members dining room: Gore, Palmer, Henry, Oquist, Clements, the Palmer United party senator-elect and former rugby league player, Glenn Lazarus, the independent member for Indi, Cathy McGowan, the Queensland green campaigner Drew Hutton and Gore's and Palmer's staff.

He went on to become manager of the members' dining room at the Metropolitan Club.