But despite that, we still can have very friendly exchanges of views and discussion.
No sooner has he appeared on a television chat show than he pops up at a fire station in his Hull constituency for a mug of tea and a friendly exchange of views with the "lads".
Victor Homola (NYT) ASIA TAIWAN: NATIONALIST MEETS CHINESE OFFICIAL A leader of Taiwan's Nationalist Party met in Beijing with a top Chinese foreign policy official and had a "friendly exchange of views," a Nationalist spokesman said.
Education Secretary Rod Paige was hoping for a friendly exchange of views about a sweeping federal education law when, a month ago, he offered to fly 50 of the nation's best teachers to Washington at government expense.
Their time in the program led Ms. Hodgkins and Mr. Bisard to maintain a friendly exchange of letters, phone calls and e-mail messages, while they pursued graduate degrees and started careers.
Throughout history, borders have caused unfathomable bloodshed, ageless feuds and decades-old legal disputes, which makes plans for a friendly exchange of land between the Netherlands and Belgium all the more remarkable.
"To say that John McCain visited with Tom Daschle," says Leonard Zwilling, general editor at the Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE), "implies a friendly exchange of views, as opposed to met with, which could just as well suggest that they had a flaming set-to".
We had a very frank and friendly exchange of views and in the end I think he saw my point of view, but time will tell".
The word is believed to have originated in London as street slang and has evolved to its current form, defined by the Oxford Dictionaries as "the playful and friendly exchange of teasing remarks".
"We're looking for a friendly exchange of ideas". Just like in Long Beach.
This led to a friendly exchange of letters between Robinson and Dolan over their differing accounts, which The Wall Street Journal published.
