Alistair is the slightly more intense member of a friendly pair and his knuckles often rap urgently on the tabletop while Jonny chats away cheerfully.
Embryo research enjoys a more supportive climate in Britain because the abortion debate is not so intense, and members of Parliament are less fearful of single-issue activists than are representatives to Congress, some legal scholars suggest.
Although business pressure on Republicans has been intense, some members of the party argue that the administration should work actively for the overthrow of the Chinese government instead of extending it upgraded trading rights.
David Startzell, executive director of the Appalachian Trail Conference in Harper's Ferry, W.Va., who sat on the advisory committee, said the meetings were intense, because members struggled to set standards for accessibility on trails whose appeal is inaccessibility.
Part of the band's somewhat esoteric, in-joke sensibility comes from the members' intense closeness.
Indeed other medical groups have entered into deals with corporations -- some that drew intense criticism from members and the public.
Secrecy around the TPP has seen so intense that even members of US Congress were only allowed to view selected portions of the documents under supervision.
It won praise from Web sites like DailyKos and Upworthy, and intense derision from members of the right-wing news media.
In 1999 the U.S. Congress passed a UN reform bill, and after intense negotiations UN members agreed to reduce the U.S. share of the budget and to increase contributions from other states to make up the shortfall.
Men and women often have intense friendships with members of their own sex, friendships that have no sexual component; yet we are losing the vocabulary to speak about them, or we are embarrassed to do so.
