Webb and I discussed the conventional wisdom taking hold — in discussions not only about Virginia but about Pennsylvania and Ohio and Michigan as well — that white men weren't breaking Obama's way mostly because he's black.
"We have been holding discussions, not negotiations," Red Bulls General Manager Jerome de Bontin said.
"It's about the management of discussions, not the prevention of them".
"In the church we want decisions coming out of discussions, not unilateral decisions".
I am routinely excluded from discussions, not informed of meetings and denied equal training.
These were medical and scientific discussions, not the ethical or social struggling assigned to the president's council.
The books of Job and Ecclesiastes (Hebrew: Qohelet) were favourite works of medieval philosophers, who took them as philosophical discussions not dependent on historical revelation.
Some will say the UOC is joining the national-church discussions not to promote the agreed goal but mainly to have a veto over the process.
It took three years to make, a period that involved discussions not merely with Björk's record company, but Apple and National Geographic.
Classrooms are filled with discussions not of the Bible and Jesus but of 10 "core values" — perseverance and curiosity, for instance — that are woven into the curriculum.
The other half will hope for a summer spent in sensible, low-key, discussions, not "negotiations", of course, with our soon-to-be-ex partners across the Channel.
