Sentence examples for has placed on the table from inspiring English sources

If Nick Clegg wants electoral reform, he should pick up the offer that Gordon Brown has placed on the table and start talking.

But the body art, combined with the Olympic gold medal which he has placed on the table and the resolution in his words, ensures there is no doubting Whitehead will reach Land's End even though he admits next summer's task is "a very risky thing to do".

What came through in his speech to a joint session of Congress and a national television audience Tuesday night was a dramatic reminder of the unbelievable stakes he has placed on the table in his first month in office, putting at risk the future well-being of the country and the Democratic Party's control of Washington.

The fracture of the two-party system confirmed by the 20D results, the process of sovereignty in Catalonia, amending Article 135 of the Constitution, and a cycle of exceptional social mobilizations all of this has placed on the table the necessity (barely discussed nowadays) of going beyond the constitutional frame built during the transition.

Brown's cell phone, which he had placed on the table, rang.

"The people of Vieques have placed on the table concerns as to what has happened to their health, to their environment, to their opportunity for economic development," Mr. Rossello said today.

Walking into my first ever meeting with a structural packaging designer, I started rooting around in my bag before exclaiming, "This is the sort of thing I want!" She leaned forward in her chair, delighted to have a customer with a strong guide, then groaned audibly when she saw what I had placed on the table: the packaging from my new iPhone.

In 1969, a 9-year-old boy living in the Red Hook Houses in Brooklyn picked up an autographed copy of Leonard Freed's "Black in White America," a book of black-and-white photographs, which his parents had placed on the coffee room table.

Henry VIII is rumoured to have placed one on his Christmas table, and Edward VII made it a fashionable choice for the wealthy in the early years of last century.

A few quick movements and you've placed one half of the slab on the table and pulled up a small stand.

But, at a time when he has led his side to ninth in League One, Adams remains adamant that no deal has been placed on the table.